Cross Pollinator Project London Festival of Architecture 2026
Date: Sat 27 June 2026
Time: 1100-1500
Cost: Free
Location:
art'otel London Hoxton
Registration: Coming Soon!
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Multidisciplinary Portfolio Review Workshop
Join our Cross Pollinator and belong to a creative ecosystem of students, early-year practitioners, and like-minded individuals to become the next generation of change. Our multidisciplinary portfolio review experience exposes students and early-year practitioners to architecture and creative professions while offering support with professional development. We offer one-to-one portfolio reviews, presentations, networking sessions, and essential skills to help them advance in their career. We want them to gain an understanding of how they can make a positive impact in their community with creativity at various scales. This is suitable for those interested in architecture and those within various creative professions.
*Portfolio required with 10 pieces recommended.
Format
These are 20 minute one-to-one in person review sessions. Each participant will have the opportunity to receive 2 reviews from different reviewers. The workshop consits of presentations, portfolio reviews, and networking sessions. An email will be sent with full itinerary prior to the workshop.
Participants
For architects and non architects interested in gaining feedback on their work. This is intended for 6th form, end of year university students to early-year professionals, and career changers.
Tickets
Registration is essential with limited spaces. After registering you will be asked to send samples of your work to an email provided. Be sure to secure your space early as we may not be able to accept everyone once we sellout. If we do we will keep you on a waiting list for the next immediate opening.
Venue
arto'tel London Hoxton
1-3 Rivington St.
London EC2A 3DT
www.artotellondonhoxton.com
art'otel London Hoxton is London's boldest new hotel opening in the effortlessly cool and creative Hoxton neighbourhood. Fusing art, design and hospitality, the hotel features a destination restaurant, a bar with live music, an Art Gallery, auditorium, sauna, steam room, gym and pool.
It is located in the creative Shoreditch district of London, at the intersection of Old Street and Great Eastern Street. Main entrance is through the Brush Grand Cafe. Nearest Underground Station: Old Street.
Review Team
Rafael Portillo (Architecture)
Founder Artificial Kreativity, UK.
Rafael founded Artificial Kreativity as a design-led architecture studio merging technology, art, and architecture, with the aim to advance society. With his studio, he is supporting the creative community with the Cross Pollinator Project. It aims to make architecture accessible to everyone and expose students to the profession through a multi-disciplinary approach. For over 10 years, he has reviewed portfolios for architecture candidates applying to Cornell University’s architecture school in New York. Prior to launching his studio, he worked with Zaha Hadid Architects. His career spans over 18 years of designing iconic buildings at multiple scales ranging from cultural buildings, FIFA stadiums, masterplans, commercial retail, and private residential designs. Key projects comprise Pierres Vives, Chartres Parc des Expo, Symbiotic Villa, and Diyar Town Center Masterplan. Design interests stem from music, art, landscape, fashion, creativity, and technology. He is a native of Los Angeles, received his BArch from Cornell University, MArch from the Architectural Association, and sits on the board of trustees with London Play.
Marta Kowalewska (Art + textile)
Chief curator at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź (CMWŁ), Poland
With over 25 years of experience, Marta Kowalewska is an art historian and critic, curator of exhibitions and author of texts on art. She looks at textiles as a medium rather than a discipline and believes it is a language—carrier of information and a material full of meaning in the hands of visual artists, artisans, craftsmen, architects and fashion designers.
She has curated numerous international exhibitions of renowned artists including Metamorphism. Magdalena Abakanowicz (2017-18), Rebellion of the matter (2017), 100 Flags for the Centenary of Polish Women’s Suffrage (with the 100 FLAG collective, 2019), Antoni Starczewski: The Idea of Linear Notation (with Grzegorz Musiał, 2022), Threads of a New Spirituality (with Elisabetta Mero, 2022), We Are Textile Culture Net! (Hong Kong 2022), and the 16th and 17th International Triennial of Tapestry (2019, 2022).
She has published more than seventy articles, critical texts and interviews including co-authoring the book From Tapestry to Fiber Art: The Lausanne Biennials 1962–1995. She also edited the book Magdalena Abakanowicz. Metamorphism. She has been on the juries of international textile art competitions and is a board member of the European Textile Network, as well as the chairwoman of the Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz- Kosmowska and Jan Kosmowski Foundation Advisory Board.
More to come!
Guest Presentations from our Cross Pollinators
Coming Soon! (XPollinator)
Contact Information
For any questions concerning this workshop please contact Artificial Kreativity with the link below. Please do not contact London Festival of Architecture directly as they are running the festival and not organizing this event.
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