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Welcome Tabbi
6:04:08 28 January 2025
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Super pleased to welcome Tabbi Harvey-Crowe to Team FreeState.
An architect by training, Tabbi graduated in 2021 with BArch Part 1 from the University of Nottingham, before cutting her teeth in the worlds of small and big studio architecture. In terms of the former, she had the opportunity to dive into just about everything that a small firm with a focus on residentials might handle, be that technical plans, client liaison, or general design decision making.
Having always hugely enjoyed the research element of architecture, she then joined Hassell’s London-based urban design research team. Here she helped manage a knowledge-exchange platform, hosted workshops and events for clients and the studio, designed and delivered in-the-field studies and interviews, and helped with report writing and promotion materials. It was in the course of working with Hassell that Tabbi helped us on a number of projects. She officially joined FreeState in January this year.
Given the above, it won’t surprise to learn that Tabbi has a broad and eclectic interest in and approach to design – or, better put, ‘design in context’, the social and non-social environment critical to the way she thinks and does. As such, she brings a wonderfully eclectic kitbag of tools, skills, and experiences to the FreeState design table, including her experience of technical planning, her knowledge of urban design, and her work in data collection, analysis, and reporting. Fine previous work examples include:
– Boots Island Natural Aquatic Centre (BINAC): A university design project that aimed to transform Nottingham’s ‘boots island’ into a wetland and wild swimming destination, requiring the design of natural filtration processes and floating strutures, including a main building ‘climbing frame’.
– Property X-Change: Part of the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan’s High Streets for All initiative. Tabbi was a member of the research and GLA team charged with curating the pilot for Property X-Change, an online resource and network for anyone interested in the reactivation of underutilised high street real estate.
– Wilton Park: Working with PRD and Gehl, she worked to create and deliver a framework capable of measuring the social, cultural, environmental, and economic impact of investments in the public realm and placemaking across a five-year timeframe.
When not working on the visuals for an airport’s journey map or investigating meanwhile use options for a city regeneration project, or designing briefing frameworks, Tabbi can be found loving the sea, photography, walks in nature, swimming, dancing, and enjoying any number of life-affirming activities. Thank you for joining us, Tabbi.
If you’d like to learn more about FreeState, please do get in touch.