Wongani Mwanza
Architect & Participatory Urban Designer
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Wongani has worked on projects across the civic, residential, health and education sector, and has international experience in Sweden working for Krook & Tjäder.
Wongani is the Participatory Urban Design Lead focusing on community engagement, and particularly invested in embedding Community Wealth Building principles, with a strong desire to see all parts of society shaping their built environment. Most recently, you might have met Wongani during the community engagement events for the Blackbird Leys Community Centre.
Wongani is passionate about the circular economy and his research was exhibited in the 2019 RIBA ‘Industrialised’ exhibition and he hosted an RIBA podcast on the circular economy in 2023. He was a special guest and co-curated Modern Art Oxford's 2022 Adapt Transform Stories, a thematic series on community responses to urban design and creativity. He is also currently engaging in research on the topic of intergenerational wealth, race and housing, and delivered workshops at the past two Marmalade Festivals and at Modern Art Oxford.
Wongani is an associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, where he teaches an undergraduate Design Unit C: Building Stories. He has also been a Judge for the AJ Architecture Awards in 2023 & 2024 and is a Design Council Associate Expert.
