Islands Talks: Owen Hatherley and Marianna Janowicz

Janowicz is an architect, writer, educator and member of feminist design collective Edit. She teaches design studio and architectural history at the London School of Architecture and the University for the Creative Arts, and runs an architectural walking tour in London for the charity Open City. Her writing has been published in the New York Review of Architecture, the Architectural Review and e-flux Architecture, among others. She is a Design Researcher in Residence at the Design Museum.

Hatherley is the author of several books, most recently Modern Buildings in Britain (Penguin), and Artificial Islands (Repeater), winner of best book and best monograph at the Architectural Book Awards, 2023. He is a commissioning editor at Jacobin.

A free display of design research responding to the climate crisis by this year's Researchers in Residence.

Future Observatory is the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition.

Future Observatory is coordinated by the Design Museum in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) which is part of UK Research and Innovation, funding independent researchers in a wide range of subjects from history and archaeology to philosophy and languages, design and effectiveness of digital content and the impact of artificial intelligence.

The Idlewild Trust supports programmes that address the lack of opportunities for professional musicians, dancers, actors, writers, artists and those involved creatively in the arts at an early stage in their career.