Team
Meet the team that worked together to create the Warm Bodies, Cold Homes project website.
Team portraits illustrated by Lindsay Pollock.
Dr Mayanka Mukherji is a social anthropologist, based at the LSE, and studies housing in London.
She is interested in empty houses, poor-quality homes as well as luxury properties, and the everyday life generated through these various housing forms.
She uses ethnographic fiction and collaborative drawing as methods of carrying out fieldwork and documenting stories in London.
Dr Benjamin Worku-Dix is the Founding Director of PositiveNegatives that amplifies academic research through engaging visual storytelling.
Based at SOAS and Sussex Universities, Ben works with academic teams exploring innovative ways of developing engagement and impact of complex issues.
Daniel Locke is an artist and graphic novelist based in Brighton, UK. His work ranges between commissions for commercial bodies and socially engaged organisations, such as universities and charities, alongside personal work and residencies.
He has collaborated with a wide range of researchers and artists on a diverse series of projects, including Scribner, Bloomsbury, Nobrow, The Nib, Arts Council England, The Wellcome Trust, NHS, PositiveNegatives and The National Trust.
Ed Ball has been developing websites for a range of organisations for more than 10 years.
Previous projects Ed has worked on include the build for the web comic I am the Leader of my House, which tells the stories of two Rohingya women and the challenges they face living in refugee camps. Additionally, Ed took on a mentorship role during the Lives on Hold (LOHST) project, providing guidance, advice and support throughout the process of building the LOHST website.