(She/her) 2024

Hi, I am Poppy.

I am an architectural designer, researcher and disability activist currently studying for my MA Architecture at the Royal College of Art. I am registered blind and have recently qualified with my first guide dog, Summer.

I mostly work at the intersection of art, architecture and disability, including on many projects with the DisOrdinary Architecture Project. These include Seats at the Table, a co-designed installation for the London Festival of Architecture interested in accessibility an sustainable materials, and Many More Parts than M!, a compendium trying to push beyond compliance with building regulation and into the creative potential of disability.

As well as this, I have worked in conventional architecture practice at DSDHA, primarily focussing on public realm and placemaking. I have also taught a research unit at the London School of Architecture, focussed on spatial justice. In 2024 I curated the London Festival of Architecture in 2024 and am currently a Young Trustee of the Architecture Foundation.

As well as architecture, I have worked across the creative fields, as part of the Beyond the Visual research project and the Design and Disability exhibition at the V&A.

Alongside this I co-founded the Access Adventure Film Project with Find It Film, aiming to make the sport and adventure film industry more accessible. We have worked with festivals both in the UK and internationally, hosting accessible screenings, running workshops and creating an open access guide now available in three languages. From this, I created and voiced the creative audio descriptions for Sky Sports documentary Untethered, about the first blind woman to swim the English Channel.