Architect | Founder, ProxyAddress | Director, Hildrey Studio | Trustee, Museum of Architecture | TIME Magazine 100 Best Inventions
Joined July 2012
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Sometimes, the smallest changes make the biggest impact. Check out our latest UNPOLITICS episode where @chrishildrey explains how a simple address can unlock new opportunities for those facing homelessness.
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#Podcast #Homelessness #SocialImpact
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We're thrilled to announce the new Design Council Expert network! With 240+ designers across multiple disciplines from fashion to policy, they'll champion our #DesignForPlanet mission, aiming to galvanise the UK's 1.97M designers towards net zero. Welcome to the team! 🌍✨
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Hundreds of students at the Bartlett School of Architecture have staged a protest after a ‘well-known and loved’ security guard was moved away from the position he has worked in for many years bit.ly/485oQEK
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Call to arms for designers/architects from @chrishildrey of Proxy Address @L_D_F "We have to use less and create more intangible value. That's design."
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A hyper-local social infrastructure of guardians to protect and nurture care-leavers
Garden Family by @tonkinliu Studio Mama, @HildreyStudio, Under One Sky Together
Vote for any of the projects to win #TheDavidsonPrize People's Choice by voting via our profile link
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"I think it’s really inspiring when we look at solutions that are dimensional and go beyond just the built fabric of our towns and cities.”
@ProxyAddress has been recognised as a stand-out solution to homelessness by @DavidsonPrize ❤️️ da-is.us/40u0hy5
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A real honour to be recognised by @DavidsonPrize judge Sadie Morgan, a tireless advocate for design's potential to impact lives.💙
Sadie Morgan noted @proxyaddress as her stand out homelessness solution.
Proxy Address is an award winning solution that has been connecting those facing homelessness with support, independent of location since 2017. Find out more at proxyaddress.co.uk
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Architects have a duty to use their skills to help solve societal problems even if it means thinking beyond designing buildings, ProxyAddress founder Chris Hildrey tells Dezeen in this interview.
dezeen.com/2023/02/01/proxya…
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We had a wonderful time celebrating the achievements of our pupils at Speech Day yesterday at the @liverpoolphil.
A huge thanks to our guest speakers Emma Watkinson and Chris Hildrey for their insightful and enlightening words.
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Just been reading about @chrishildrey attempt to address the unaddressed by taking unused street addresses and assigning them to homeless people. A great idea within a great book from @Deirdre_Mask #geographyteacher
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🏫🏦 The @LeedsBeckMArch A.O.L.S conts with @chrishildrey director @ Hildrey Studios 👏👏
Discussing @ProxyAddress a system 4 those faced with homelessness avoiding being severed from support when losing an address
09/02/22👉TEAMS👉PUBLIC👉5pm/6pm
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Museum of Architecture have launched an international design competition to find three exceptional designs of treehouses as part of a larger ‘Treehouses at Kew’ Exhibition taking place in 2023.
@kewgardens #kew #treehousesatkewdesigncompetition
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You know what’s cool? Ensuring homeless and others in unstable living situations can still access essential services. You know what else is cool? @ProxyAddress for doing this thing.
Thanks for helping me to learn about this @AudreyMatty!
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With 12 days of Christmas at Geovation, we have 12 Geovation start-up successes🎄
On the first day of Christmas at Geovation, @ProxyAddress who were on our Accelerator in 20117 were named as one of @TIME’s Best Inventions of 2021!
Read more here: ow.ly/eQRw50H9g1L
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@ChrisHildrey says “the transition from school to university, mentoring young students, clamping down on unpaid internships, and diversifying the profession,” are key areas to open architecture to people from lower socio-economic backgrounds
Tune in now! bit.ly/3n4MU6n
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Delighted to see that Ruby Alexander's essay about ProxyAddress entitled 'Mending the Safety Net' was named one of the senior runners up in this year's @OrwellYouthPriz Congratulations, Ruby!
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Happy #InternationalDayOfDemocracy! Celebrate with us and watch #SocksTalkPolitics, our new concept hosted by Brian Sock and powered by @politicsawards!
Ready to get your socks knocked off?
#socialmedia #innovation #europe #series #puppets #sockstalkpolitics #democracyday
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It was great to be invited by @RIBA to chair a discussion w @HarrietHarriss @markebreeze @ForensicArchi @lindsay_bremner @chrishildrey on how architects can work beyond architecture to design a more sustainable future
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@pamela_buxton for writing abt it rb.gy/eynigk
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@ProxyAddress, winner of #PoliticsAwards20 in the category #HumanRights, gives UK’s #Homeless their lives back by giving them an address.
We spoke with @chrishildrey about how he came up with the idea and brought it to life during a #pandemic:
innovationinpolitics.eu/prox…
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Over 270,000 homes in England are vacant - why not put them to good use? Meet #indexaward2021 finalist ProxyAddress, a system that connects homeless people with a consistent, secure and free address to register for vital civic services. Read more: bit.ly/2021_proxyaddress