Ninth Edition 2023-2024

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Assemble are a London-based organisation that has produced buildings, fabricated furniture, produced artworks, planted gardens and curated exhibitions. It develops business plans and initiates organisations where available resources can be more impactfully employed as new forms of social rather than spatial infrastructure. It manages spaces for production in the city. Its members curate and teach, give talks and lectures, write books and publish research. Founded in 2010 to undertake a single self-built project the team continues to work co-operatively, valuing consensus, debate and collaboration. Its organisation functions as a constellation of different activities and businesses that are interconnected but which enable and support growing specialism. Assemble explores projects through the lens of the materials they are made from, hands-on making, DIY experimentation and collaboration with fabricators, scientists and industrial partners.

The group sees design as a tool to respond to environmental, social and economic challenges and recognise the complicity of architecture, construction and the built environment in many of the most harmful and inequitable practices that persist today. We believe that good practice, critical reflection and the production of good, built examples are the most effective means that we have for making a positive impact.

Assemble today includes Maria Lisogorskaya (1987), Louis Edward Loft Schulz (1988), Emily Claire Wickham (1995), Mary Jet Anderson (1992), James Donald Morley Binning (1987), Holly Alexandra Briggs (1987), Alice Mary Clare Edgerley (1987), Anthony Thomas Engi Meacock (1987), Irgel Enkhasaikhan (1997), Mark Gavigan (1995), Jane Lisa Issler Hall (1987), Harry Maywood Johnson (1996), Owen Robert Lacey (1990), Matthew Leung (1988), Giles Samuel Peter Smith (1987), Jaymi Sudra (1995).