Our team believe that place is as much about the social, cultural and economic life as it is about the physical. By working with people, we can make better places for all to live, work and play in.

Current team members

Christina Norton

BSc (Hons.) AA Dip RIBA
Director Fluid / Soundings
Dates 1996 – present

Christina is a founder and director of Soundings and sister company, Fluid. She is an architect with extensive experience in community and stakeholder consultation and engagement in connection with urban design, masterplanning and architectural projects. She has detailed knowledge of current planning policy and has been responsible for devising and directing exemplar projects.

Christina combines design and communication skills with fresh and innovative thinking to produce unexpected and inspirational ideas for everything from consultation plans, to concepts for engagement and approaches for raising awareness of projects. She has experience of working with a range of clients from local authority, development agencies, architects and other design companies, to private developers.

Steve McAdam

BSc (Hons.) AA Dipl. RIBA ARB
Director – Fluid / Soundings
Dates: 1996 – present

Steve is a founder and director of Soundings and Fluid. He is an architect with extensive experience in urban regeneration, masterplanning and participatory design. He was appointed by the London Development Agency in 2003 to direct all aspects of pre-submission stakeholder consultation and responsive masterplanning for the Olympic and Legacy masterplans and performed a similar role for Argent at Kings Cross Central.

Steve is currently director for public consultation and engagement on Chelsea Barracks, a major redevelopment site in London owned by Qatari Diar. He is a consultant to the Council of Europe, and has written extensively on urban regeneration, participatory design and architecture. His work has been exhibited internationally.

Ciron Edwards

BSc (Hons.) Dip Arch UNL
Associate Director
Dates: 1998 – present

Ciron joined Fluid in 1999 and is a founding member of Soundings. He has led a wide range of urban design, regeneration and architectural projects across the UK, all founded on extensive key stakeholder engagement and public consultation. He is expert in facilitating workshops and meetings between stakeholders and resident groups including the careful handling of delicate situations such as the loss of homes and difficult development sites.

Ciron is particularly experienced in working with school communities to develop visions, design briefs and outline designs as part of the Building Schools for the Future and Primary Capital programmes.

Caf Fean

BA (Hons), MA
Associate
Dates: 2008 – present

Caf is a writer and consultant specialising in leading public consultation projects. She has experience of engaging with hard to reach groups and managing conflict resolution. Caf brings her creative thinking to developing innovative and participatory consultation processes and making engagement fun and meaningful. She led the public consultation on Woolwich Squares and Thames View Estate in Barking.

After graduating with an MA from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (2005-2007), Caf worked as a Research Consultant for Locum Consulting. She joined Soundings in September 2008, signifying a return to exploiting a hands-on, creative way of working.

Amanda Walker

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture
Consultation Manager
Dates: 2008 – present

Amanda aims to drive inspiring and productive events that maintain interest from engagement groups with a view to ensuring continued involvement and achieving client aims in a locally enabling consultative process. She is currently working with Christina on the development of a Community Benefits Strategy for The Wharves, Deptford.

Passionate about working within interdisciplinary teams to achieve creative, tangible outputs from responsive engagement and effective communication, her architectural background has led her to work across the arts including public art, interventions, performance, visual arts, installations and film. Amanda has a keen enthusiasm for exploring the social implications related to growth, change and the roots of place.

Elly Tabberer

BA Hons
Associate
Dates: 2008 – present

Elly is a designer with a background in architecture and experience in design for theatre and installation. Her work is based around ideas of narrative within architecture and site-speci?c installation. Recently she has been involved in large and small-scale performance based projects with a number of practitioners including Punchdrunk.

A skilled draughtsman and photographer, Elly brings creative flair to the Soundings team, capturing many of our events on camera and mapping results from consultation spatially. Elly works between the disciplines of architecture and community engagement in gaining an understanding of place. She is currently leading public consultation and engagement for the Chelsea Barracks project.

Kat Davis

MA Cantab, DipArch LMU, RIBA part II
Consultation Assistant
Dates: October 2008 – present

Kat joined Soundings in 2008 having graduated from London Metropolitan University with a professional diploma in Architecture. Kat brings an essential set of skills to the Soundings team: spatial awareness, communication, experience of exhibition design and graphics skills and a keen understanding of target audiences – in particular young people and vulnerable community members.

Kat has taken a key role in leading consultation and engagement for Sneinton Square as well as facilitating stakeholder and school workshops for other Soundings projects. She has a wealth of experience of project management, from her work on voluntary projects in Kenya to a live project in the Isle of Dogs, East London.

Georgina Chimarrides

BA (Hons) MA
Consultation Assistant
Dates: 2010 – present

Having joined Soundings in May 2010, Georgina has been primarily involved in the Chelsea Barracks Partnership project, supporting the team at consultation events, analysing consultation data and planning youth engagement sessions.

Georgina’s main focus is user-centered design to assure that public spaces and services reflect the wants and needs of a community. She has designed both temporary and permanent spatial environments as well as interactive public interventions and participatory workshops.

Projects she has been involved in include small scale-residential projects both in the UK and Cyprus, exhibition design for the Hunterian Museum, an award-winning interactive installation for the London Festival of Architecture 2008 and architecture workshops for Camden Council as part of the Living Heritage programme. Georgina has also lead youth engagement workshops in collaboration with Tower Hamlets and through these sessions developed a creative toolkit which enables facilitators to create compelling workshops in a short period of time.

Nina Honiball

BA (Hons) MA
Project Assistant
Dates: 2009 – present

A talented graphic designer and consultant, Nina joined Soundings in 2009 and is responsible for the development and production of Soundings graphics and visual communication involved in the consultation process. Nina is experienced in and passionate about public engagement, outreach work and workshop facilitation.

Nina has three years of experience as a design director for a broadcast company in Johannesburg, South Africa. Having completed her MA at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, she graduated with a distinction for her major project in community building and public art. Nina aims to incorporate narrative, storytelling and visual communication in the consultation process creating a platform for engagement and dialogue.

Michael Tarring

Consultation Assistant

Michael joined Soundings in 2009 after graduating from London Metropolitan University with a professional Diploma in Architecture. During his studies Michael focused on participatory design in architecture with particular emphasis on youth consultation carrying out a live project in the Isle of Dogs.

Currently practicing architecture which is design driven by people, place and community, Michael has clear understanding of the consultation process and experience of stakeholder engagement assisting Soundings on the Chelsea Barracks Project and Deptford Wharves Project.

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