About Open City
Open City is a charity empowering communities to learn about, feel connected to, and have a role in shaping places where they live
We are on a mission to make the built environment more open, accessible, and equitable. We do this through:
– Our flagship event Open House Festival, opening up and celebrating London and its communities each September
– A year-round young people’s programme which includes city-making workshops at primary and special educational needs schools, as well as the award-winning mentoring programme Accelerate for young people traditionally excluded from architecture.
– A year-round programme of events, award-winning podcasts, tours, publications, video reel content and merchandise to democratise public knowledge about cities and the way we live in them
– Supporting, growing and cultivating dialogue across a network of over 60 Open House Festivals around the world, from Lagos to New York.
The Open City Staff
Core Operations Team
Festival Team
Education Team
Tours and Editorial Team
Open City Trustees
Open City Programmes
Open House Festival
Giving 250,000 Londoners each year access to architecture and landscapes they are normally locked out of
Learning Programmes
Leading education programmes engaging over 8,000 young people across 50 London schools each year
Open House Worldwide
A network of 50 Cities from Lagos to Taipei and New York to Santiago
Year-round events, films and podcasts
We make books, tours, talks, films and radio shows opening up big conversations about London and its architecture