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Indy Johar

Co-founder of 00

Indy Johar is a qualified architect and place strategist. He co-founded 00:/ [zer’o zer’o] in 2005, a research-driven design practice focused on re-imagining, re-thinking, re-designing and re-organising place. The practice’s work supports physical and spatial interventions catalysed by the synthesis of quantitative & qualitative research with a community & market generative approach. Project range from the scale of bespoke place shaping strategies to the detailed design & delivery of prototypes such as low-carbon homes, world class – co-working & learning institutions, community led neighbourhood retrofits and ‘self-commission masterplans’ – amongst others. Indy has taught at various institutions from Columbia University New York, TU-Berlin, University of Bath, Architectural Association and University College London. He has given lectures and led discussions on the issue of community generative urbanism at various forums from Said Business School Oxford, DEMOS, European Parliament, LSE, Royal Academy, Royal Society of the Arts to the Royal Institute British Architects. He is also a Demos Associate and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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