27th June, 11am – 3pm, art’otel London Hoxton, 1-3 Rivington St, London EC2A 3DT

Artificial Kreativity presents the Cross Pollinator Project at the London Festival of Architecture

Join our Cross Pollinator and belong to a creative ecosystem of students, early-year practitioners, and like-minded individuals to become the next generation of change. Our multidisciplinary portfolio review experience exposes students and early-year practitioners to architecture and creative professions while offering support with professional development. We offer one-to-one portfolio reviews, presentations, networking sessions, and essential skills to help them advance in their career. We want them to gain an understanding of how they can make a positive impact in their community with creativity at various scales. This is suitable for those interested in architecture and those within various creative professions.

Portfolio is required for visual arts and we recommend a sample of 10 pieces

Format

The workshop consists of presentations, portfolio reviews, and a networking session. Each participant will have the opportunity to receive 2 reviews from different reviewers.

Participants

Students to early-creative practitioners (6th form, university, and higher education, career changers)

Key information

Event: Cross Pollinator Project

Date: June 27

Time: 11am to 3pm

Location: art’otel London Hoxton

1-3 Rivington St

London, UK

EC2A 3DT

Tickets

Cost: Free event (Registration is essential and spaces are limited)

Booking and information: https://artificialkreativity.com/LFA2026

Review Team

Rafael Portillo (Artificial Kreativity)

Marta Kowalewska (Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź )

Amy Peacock (Dezeen)

Chris Dyson (Chris Dyson Architects)

Janek Schaefer (Sound Artist)

Dagmar Binsted (Scott Brownrigg Architects)

Ottilie Thornhill (ARUP)

Bridgit Monro (RSHP Architects)

Gemma Mohajer (Yellow Studio)

Check website for more reviewers

In partnership with

art’otel London Hoxton | Polish Culture Institute in London | RIBA London

Marta Kowalewska

Marta Kowalewska is an art historian and critic, and Chief Curator at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź (CMWŁ), Poland. She curated the 16th, 17th, and 18th International Triennial of Textiles in Łódź, as well as exhibitions including Magdalena Abakanowicz. Everything is made of fiber (2025), Wojciech Sadley. Sacrum Profanum. Contemporary Discourse (2025), Antoni Starczewski. Moulding the Ideas (2024), and Metamorphism. Magdalena Abakanowicz (2017-18).

Kowalewska has published over 70 articles, essays, professional interviews, exhibition catalogues, and contributed to both Polish and international institutions in Zacheta Warsaw, TATE Modern, Muzeum Susch/Hatje Cantz, and Musée Bourdelle. She co-authored From Tapestry to Fiber Art: The Lausanne Biennials 1962-1995 (2017) and has edited several books including Textile Textures. Multithreaded narratives (2024), Antoni Starczewski. The Idea of Linear Notation (2022), Magdalena Abakanowicz. Metamorphism (2018), and Splendour of Textiles (2013). She is a board member of the European Textile Network, chairs the Supervisory Board of the Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz-Kosmowska and Jan Kosmowski Foundation, a member of AICA, co-founded Textile Culture Net project, and served on several international juries for textile art.

Janek Schaefer

Sound Artist, entertainer & visiting professor, Janek Schaefer trained as an Architect at the Royal College of Art, where he developed his focus on the relationship between sound, space and place, and started his art career, by posting a sound activated tape recorder [Recorded Delivery], for the exhibition with Brian Eno and Artangel. The context of each idea is central to its development and resolution, often exploring themes of appropriation, accident, & alteration.

For 35 years his installation work frequently addresses the implications of the way we are living. He has exhibited and performed in 30 countries worldwide, from The Tate Modern, via Pompidou & MIT, to The Sydney Opera House. In 2008 ‘Extended Play’ won a Paul Hamlyn Award & the British Composer of the Year Award in Sonic Art. He has released 40+ albums, won UK ‘Best Mobile DJ’ in 2020, and The Bluecoat gallery has exhibited a Retrospective of his career.