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‘HEALTH, ACCESS & SPACIAL INJUSTICE IN ARCHITECTURE’
IN CONVERSATION WITH TESHOME DOUGLAS-CAMPBELL & CHLOE SHANG
Delivered in partnership with Barts Heritage and RIBA for London Festival of Architecture 2026
13TH JUNE 2026
15:15 - 16:00PM
Barts North Wing, St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts, West Smithfield, London EC1A 2BE
ABOUT THE TALK
This conversation will explore how health and wealth have always historically been linked, and how architecture and wellbeing have a tandem role to play in our cities today.
Looking to the future, the discussion will shed light on how the idea of wellbeing in architecture has influenced the way we build and inhabit space— questioning how ideas of retrofit and redress might help materialise new visions of wellbeing and access to wellbeing in the built environment.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Chloe Shang is an architectural designer and writer interested in the relationships between architecture, health and healing. A graduate of the Royal College of Art and the University of Cambridge, she has developed her practice at Haworth Tompkins and GROUPWORK.
Drawing on her own experiences of illness, Chloe’s work advocates for a renewed duty of care towards patients, users, construction workers, and the planet. She reimagines the apathy and anonymity of contemporary healthcare environments, and challenges the use of carbon-intensive and toxic materials in their construction.
For her work in this field, Chloe has been awarded the RIBA President’s Dissertation Medal, Architecture Foundation Writing Prize, RIBA London Student Award, and RIBA Wren Scholarship.
Alongside her design practice, Chloe writes about architecture and care, and occasionally turns to poetry to explore these themes. An alumna of the New Architecture Writers programme, her work has been published by the Architecture Foundation and The Architectural Review.
Teshome Douglas-Campbell is a London-based, intersectional feminist architectural designer, alumnus of the New Architecture Writers (NAW) programme and founding member of PATCH Collective. Through the varied disciplines of architecture, visual art and journalism he explores ideas around the built environment through the lens of the diaspora.
He is an alumnus of the London School of Architecture, the Royal Drawing School (Drawing year), recipient of the Zaha Hadid bursary scholarship program and Ingram Prize 2025 finalist.
Teshome’s architectural practice explores the urban democratisation of wellbeing and mindfulness, questioning how a space - through its design, inhabitants and commodification - influences our sense of access. Heeding to the domestic, Teshome’s practice interrogates the history of architectural design itself, the hegemony of white cis-architecture spurred on by gentrification, and the absence of culture-led, accessible spaces designed by and for marginalised/minority communities.
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