Community-centered built environment studio practice.
SD Projects is a multidisciplinary studio working across art, architecture, and technology, with a practice grounded in socially engaged spatial research and cultural production. The studio works closely with communities that are often peripheral to dominant narratives of urban change, foregrounding forms of knowledge embedded in everyday life, local memory, and collective experience.
The studio specialises in critical and experimental approaches to urban development and cultural programming, using participatory and co-design methodologies to deepen relationships between place, heritage, and civic identity. Its projects are frequently rooted in contexts shaped by histories of labour, migration, and religious life, where questions of representation, access, and belonging are inseparable from the built environment.
Through public art, architecture, and technological innovation, SD Projects develops work that reconsiders the public realm as a site of shared authorship and long-term social value. By combining design research with contemporary technologies, the studio contributes to more inclusive urban futures while producing cultural interventions that resonate locally and beyond.
Team
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SIMON DAVENPORT
Creative Director
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TANZIDAH ISLAM
Head of Programmes & Events
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SAMEERA HANIF
Marketing & PR
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SALLY HOUGH
Artist Liaison & Community Partnerships
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VAUGHN HORSMAN
Technical Design Director
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MATT ROWE
Materials Specialist & Educator