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 & Broadcasting 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

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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

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Year-round events, films and podcasts

We make books, tours, talks, films and radio shows opening up big conversations about London and its architecture