Please welcome our new reader feedback group
We’re delighted to announce the launch of the RIBAJ Litmus Group – a panel of readers from all over the UK and overseas who, responding to our invitation, have kindly agreed to crit what we do. It’s a very diverse and thoroughly interesting group.
Every magazine craves feedback from its readers, and we are no exception. Of course we meet lots of you face to face. We also know from our previous reader research that there is broad support for our ‘head and heart’ approach, in which practical guidance sits alongside accounts of inspirational buildings, people and events. Social media is also valuable for assessing reactions to what we publish. But we have long felt the need for a regular conversation with a group of engaged readers so as to test the relevance and interest of what we do, in print and online. Hence the Litmus Group.
Members range from solo practitioners to directors of large practices. They are from all round the country and abroad – including the USA, France, Australia and Canada.
There are urban and market town and rural practitioners, recently (or not yet) qualified, older – including retired – architects, practice chairs and directors; from emerging and established firms engaged in all manner of work. There are architects on the client side and one who is a local authority chief executive. We have representatives from academia, from traditionalist and conservation practices as well as the multi-discipline, the modernist and the experimental.
We’ll converse online via surveys and emails. The group will be refreshed at intervals to bring in new voices and can expand if necessary to a workable maximum of around 50 members – so do let me know if you would like to join at hugh.pearman@ribaj.com. For the launch, we aimed for 40 and have 41. Our thanks to them – we’re looking forward to this. So here they all are:
Phil Allsopp Arizona State University, USA
Kelly Bednarczyk Hall + Bednarczyk, Chepstow
Robert Blundell Saltaire, West Yorkshire
Barbara Bochnak ITOLab, London
Tim Browne Blainey North and Associates, Sydney, Australia
Mick Brundle Arup Associates, London
Sarah Castle IF_DO, London
Richard Crowson Watson Batty Architects, Loughborough
Kate Darby Kate Darby Architects, Leominster
Hannah Durham Cullinan Studio, London
Sue Emms BDP Manchester
Nils Feldmann Feldmann Architects, Leicester
Roger FitzGerald ADP Architecture, London
Emma Flanagan PH+ Architects, London
Chris Hartiss Squire and Partners, London
Stuart Hatcher Rogate, West Sussex
Wayne Head Curl La Tourelle Head Architecture, London
Duncan Higgins Diamond Schmitt Architects, Toronto, Canada
Paul Iddon Agency Spring, Manchester
Peter Jacob Chalford, Gloucestershire
Dipa Joshi Assael Architecture, London
Soraya Khan Theis+Khan, Tunbridge Wells
Laura Kinnaird Reiach & Hall, Edinburgh
Hana Loftus HAT Projects, Colchester
Tania Love FaulknerBrowns, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Paul McGrath Ceetoo Architecture, Swansea
Neil MacWilliams Rick Mather Architects, London
Justin Nicholls Fathom Architects, London
Catherine Pease vPPR Architects, London
Wendy Perring PAD Studio, Lymington Hants
Carolyn Ouwehand Glenn Howells Architects, London/Birmingham
Louise Priestman Purcell, Canterbury
Rahim Rahemtulla Boon Brown, London/Yeovil
Austen Redman Francis Johnson and Partners, Bridlington
Karen Rogers Canary Wharf Contractors, London
Hazel Rounding Shedkm, Liverpool/London
Nita Sharma MZ Architecture, Antibes, France
Sumita Singha Ecologic Architects, London
Dhruv Sookhoo Newcastle University school of architecture
Magali Thomson Marks Barfield Architects, London
Ian Vincent Chief executive, Daventry District Council