Tami Masunda

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About Tami Masunda

Tami Masunda is a senior architectural designer, creative consultant, strategist and advisor with a passion for art, innovation and design, as well as people and community-centred design. With over a decade of professional experience leading varied and complex projects in architecture and spatial design, he has a multidisciplinary and multi-contextual design outlook, and a broad range of expertise, spanning from strategic vision setting to place-shaping. He is particularly engaged with public space, public art and city-shaping – especially research into the everyday spatial experience of the urban realm. Through this lens of human experience, Tami is passionate about how design thinking can be used to solve the most pressing issues that our cities are facing.Tami was project lead of Illuminated River – an award-winning, long-term London public artwork, and as a creative consultant and advisor, he was also instrumental in realising the Africa Centre’s new award-winning headquarters and strategic vision for the charity. These projects continue to inform his academic and personal research into impactful applications of experiential and people-centred design.Currently, he works at Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands as a project lead – architectural designer, and has worked internationally for other organisations such as Gair Williamson Architects