Hello & welcome to episode 10 of the Create More Podcast with the lovely Victoria Thornton, the founder and CEO of Open-City. Open House was started in 1992 as a small, not-for-profit organisation to promote public awareness and appreciation of the capital's building design and architecture. The intention was to open up London's splendid buildings to the general public who don't otherwise have access. Victoria came over to our tiny recording studio at Make's studio and her and Ben talk...

Hello and welcome to Episode 9 of the Create More podcast. This fortnight Ben went over to the Studio Octopi studio in South London to talk one half of the founding directors Chris Romer-Lee. Studio Octopi are a really interesting architectural design studio established in 2003 who grew through a series of small residential projects and are now doing some fantastic projects in many different sectors, such as the Bradford college Greek Theatre, and also the Delfina Foundation Project. They...

Hello & welcome to Episode 8 of the Create More Podcast. This fortnight Ben was joined by Su Butcher who is the founder of JustPractising.com and is a social media consultant specialising in the construction industry and all round lovely person. Su trained in Architecture at the University of Liverpool and worked in affordable housing before becoming an academic and teacher of architecture students. She then managed three successful architects practices in London and the South East;...

Hello & welcome to Episode 7 of the Create More Podcast. This fortnight Ben was joined by Make Architects founder (and Ben's boss...) Ken Shuttleworth. Ken founded Make in 2003 with only 4 people and it has rapidly expanded over the last 10+ years to over 150 staff in offices, all over the world, including London, Hong Kong and Beijing. Make are known for creative, sustainable architecture with buildings such as The Cube in Birmingham, St Pauls information Kiosk and 5 Broadgate to name a...

Hello & welcome to episode 6 of the Create More Podcast. This fortnights episode is the with the co-founder of Wikihouse - Alastair Parvin. WikiHouse is an open-source project for designing and building houses. Its goals are to democratise and simplify the construction of sustainable, resource-light dwellings. The project was initiated in the summer of 2011 by Alastair Parvin and Nick Ierodiaconou of 00, a London architecture practice. It has grown around the world with chapters China,...

Hello & welcome to episode 5 of the Create More Podcast. On this fortnights episode Ben sits down with the brilliant Scroobius Pip. As part of this series of interviews focusing on 'creative entrepreneurs' Scroobius Pip is very much the definition of this. Starting with spoken word performances and then joining with Dan Le Sac to create more hip hop & electronic inspired music. Currently riding high with one of the most popular podcasts in the country with guests ranging from Simon...

Ben Stuart presents, Episode 4 of the Create More Podcast. For this fortnights podcast Ben heads over to Jason Bruges's design studio in Old Street. Their international studio specialises in stunning interactive installations and they have worked with all sorts of interesting clients, from Aston Martin, Dyson, Channel 4 and London 2012 Olympics. Ben and Jason talk about the current work they are involved, projects that Ben loves and also go back to the very start of the studio and lots more...

Ben Stuart presents, Episode 3 of the Create More Podcast. This fortnights podcast, Ben gets the an early morning meeting with Je Ahn, who is along with Maria Smith is one of the the founding members of Studio Weave and architecture & design practice in east London. Studio Weave are an awesome studio doing awesome projects and over an hour Je and Ben talk about everything from Art as architecture and previous projects all way to our mutual love of G&Ts. Enjoy...

Ben Stuart presents, Episode 2 of the Create More Podcast. This fortnights podcast sees Ben head over to David Batchelors new studio in East London. David is a prominent colour & light artist who has had his work presented all over the world along with being a writer (Chromophobia) and also senior tutor at the RCA. They talk about his current work also go all the way back to the start of his career and how it has evolved. Enjoy...

Ben Stuart presents, Episode 1 of the Create More Podcast. The first of this months episodes sees Ben explore behind the scenes of Assemble Studios and talk to one of the founding members, the lovely Jane Hall. They discuss everything from Assembles first projects done in the summer of their university course all the way up to their current Turner Prize nomination and lots of stuff in-between.