about me
Exploring entanglements between Art, Design & Architecture to engage children and young people with the (built) environment
Tatiana Machado has an interdisciplinary background and professional practice in Architecture, Design and Visual Arts. Her work as a practitioner has always informed her journey as an educator and vice-versa. After many years working with young adults, she decided to bring together all the different strands of her work to develop creative project-based educational programmes for children with the aim of encouraging them to engage with architecture and their surroundings from an early age.
She believes that architecture education – together with Art and Design – can not only promote the development of technical skills and competencies, but it can primarily encourage children to explore and inquire about their relationships with the spaces around them, instigating them to consider and generate other ways of thinking as well as reappropriating those.
With a background in architecture and design and a Masters in Art Education, Culture and Practice from UCL, Tatiana has been working as an educator since 2009. From 2009 to 2019 she taught undergraduate design courses and professional development programmes, as well as worked and collaborated with design offices in São Paulo and New York. Since 2020 she has been designing and facilitating activities for schools, families, museums, community centres and other educational institutions across London. She has worked and collaborated with Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Open City, Institute of Imagination, STEM Learning, Archimake, DesignTinkers, among other organisations.