RESOLVE Collective

Akil and Seth are Directors of RESOLVE Collective, an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology, and art to address social challenges. They have delivered numerous projects, workshops, publications, and talks in the UK and across Europe, all of which look toward realizing just and equitable visions of change in our built environment. Much of their work aims to provide platforms for the production of new knowledge and ideas, whilst collaborating and organizing to help build resilience in communities. An integral part of this way of working means designing with and for young people and under-represented groups in society. For them, ‘design’ encompasses both physical and systemic intervention, exploring ways of using a project’s site as a resource and working with different communities as stakeholders in the short and long-term management of projects. For RESOLVE, design carries more than aesthetic value; it is also a mechanism for political and socio-economic change.

Akil and Seth have been leading RESOLVE's portfolio of projects across the UK and Europe over the last 4 years. They are also currently teaching an undergraduate unit at the Architectural Association.