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Teshome Douglas-Campbell

Teshome Douglas-Campbell is a London-based writer, architectural designer whose work explores the intersection of design, community, and culture. With a background in socially engaged architecture, he brings a critical eye to ways we craft living environments, documenting emerging design movements and profiling transformative spaces.

Latest articles by Teshome Douglas-Campbell

Play without borders: the modular playground designed for children in crisis

Playrise is a modular timber playground that creates flexible spaces for play and creativity, designed for refugee settlements and disaster-relief zones

For its inaugural exhibition, the V&A East traces 125 years of Black British music

‘The Music is Black’ at V&A East Museum, opening on 18 April, is an intimate exploration into Black British music culture

By Teshome Douglas-Campbell Published 16 April 26
Community housing in south London brings Arts and Crafts into the 21st century

Farmstead Road, a community housing scheme in leafy Lewisham, provides an exemplar of blending Passivhaus efficiency with quaint, craft-rich English architecture

By Teshome Douglas-Campbell Published 11 March 26
From retrofuturist fembots to masculine soul-searchers, life weighs heavily in this London art exhibition

From mental health to masculinity and belonging, ‘The Weight of Being’ at Two Temple Place traces the emotional textures of everyday life, balancing heaviness and joy

By Teshome Douglas-Campbell Published 6 March 26
Discover Renée Gailhoustet and her radical approach to socially engaged housing

The Algerian-French architect thrived on creating bespoke designs and remarkable social housing; a new exhibition at the Architectural Association in London revisits the case study of Le Liegat in Paris

By Teshome Douglas-Campbell Published 20 January 26
This Hackney bar is reviving London’s legacy of lesbian spaces

Designed by Studio Popelo and Wet Studio, La Camionera emerges as a vital sanctuary for London’s FLINTA* community, honouring it right down to the details

By Teshome Douglas-Campbell Published 13 June 25
What is DeafSpace and how can it enhance architecture for everyone?

DeafSpace learnings can help create profoundly sense-centric architecture; why shouldn't groundbreaking designs also be inclusive?

By Teshome Douglas-Campbell Published 5 April 25

‘A call to action for more authentic expressions of working-class life’: a London show reframes working-class Britain

London exhibition ‘Lives Less Ordinary’, at Two Temple Place, challenges age-old stereotypes

By Teshome Douglas-Campbell Published 8 February 25
Architectural Association's newest show uncovers the architectural legacies of rural China's lost generation

The Architectural Association’s ‘Ripple Ripple Rippling’ is not your typical architecture show, taking an anthropological look at the flux between rural and urban, and bringing a part of China to Bedford Square in London

By Teshome Douglas-Campbell Published 15 October 24
Loyle Carner’s Reading Festival 2023 stage presents spatial storytelling at its finest

We talk to Loyle Carner and The Unlimited Dreams Company (UDC) about the musical artist’s stage set design for Reading Festival 2023

By Teshome Douglas-Campbell Published 23 August 23