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JA Projects founding director Jayden Ali, joined Mayor’s Design Advocates and other practitioners from the public, private and civic sectors to discuss how London could respond to the Covid-19 crisis and address the broader challenges of representation in the built environment professions.

JA projects was highlighted as part of Manifestos - Architecture for a New Generation, an annual collaboration between the Design Museum and the London Festival of Architecture highlighting new voices who are expanding the parameters of architecture in London.

Our manifesto, “Whilst the air is light and the atmosphere electric, don’t forget to breathe” makes the case for the production of ‘cultural artefacts that have the capacity to shape the city’s spirit’ in order to ‘rethink the relationships between place, objects and people and in-turn offer reflections on the future of our city.’

Jayden Ali (JA Projects) alongside Priya Khanchandani (Icon Magazine) and Joseph Henry (Greater London Authority) were shortlisted to curate the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2020.

On March 19 JA Projects is presenting two performative works at the Royal Academy of Arts as part of their Forming Futures celebration. THE FUTURE IS A COMMON HISTORY, a collaboration with Black Females in Architecture and Dr Adesola Akinleye, conjures up an alternate history that champions the making of spaces that celebrate the full breadth of our contemporary society.

JA Projects Director, Jayden Ali has been appointed a trustee of Open City.

JA Projects in collaboration with Diddy’s curated an appropriately nautical themed exhibition and party for fifteen-hundred guests.

JA Projects director Jayden Ali has been appointed Senior Lecturer within the Spatial Practices department at Central Saint Martins.

JA Project’s has been selected for inclusion in the Architecture Foundation’s upcoming publication New Architects 4 - “A major publication surveying the best British architectural practices established in the past ten years.”

JA Projects have produced a documentary titled Supermamas of Wallacedene - a powerful collective of community mothers who are tangibly changing the pattern of township development.

Co-directed with Jaime Ackroyd and researched by Nadine Coetzee the short documentary focuses on the example of Noronte Noto and other school principles.Through their work in extending education beyond the school gates they are reimagining public space and redefining ownership.

As part of Turncoats and their provocative reimagining of architecture debates, Maria Smith and Phin Harper have invited Jayden Ali to take part in a discussion on the merits of living in London.

JA Projects director Jayden Ali appointed to teach the Global Free Unit alongside Professor Robert Mull at the University of Brighton.

Block Party: A Celebration, an exhibition Curated by JA Projects, opening at Diddy’s 29th June 2017.

As part of Twins, their ongoing series of architecture talks exploring difficult alliances, strange bedfellows and new relationships, curators Charles Holland and Robert Mull have invited JA Projects director Jayden Ali to take part in a panel discussion on lessons surrounding the current refugee crisis.

JA Projects have gained Planning Approval for The Ackroyd House, a contemporary extension of a typical late-Victorian terraced house in Hackney. The expansion will provide a space suitable for contemporary family living while satisfying the clients artistic ambitions.

Sacha Ren’s, proposal for the establishment of an pop-up restaurant, called Pineapple Island will continue JA projects ongoing research into alternative and immersive learning environments. In partnership with the Kent Refugee Action Network, the restaurant will be entirely run and staffed by young asylum seeking children from the South Coast of England.