Edward Barsley, Founder, The Environmental Design Studio (TEDS)
Ed is a specialist in environmental design in architecture. His practice TEDS is an award-winning social venture who work on design, research and training on climate resilience. In 2016 they won the Sunday Times 'Resilient Home' competition with their design of the ‘Home for All Seasons’ and in January 2020, Ed's book ‘Retrofitting for Flood Resilience: A Guide to Building & Community Design’ was published by the RIBA. He is a member of the DEFRA PFR roundtable on flooding and speaks regularly at flood conferences / events worldwide. Since 2018 he's been running the RIBA’s core lecture series on flood resilient design and has been helping the Environment Agency develop national training on Property Flood Resilience. Alongside his practice Ed has been involved with a number of Research Council-funded studies, including the PhD he has been working the University of Cambridge on flood-resilient architecture and the communication of risk. In 2020 TEDS launched the ‘Hazard and Hope’ initiative and in 2022 setup the 'Climate Creatives Challenge' to support new and novel approaches for climate communication.