ABSTRACT
The city is shared by all of us, and yet those who design it are overwhelmingly white and male, not representative of the public at large. The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust was established to support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to succeed in their careers. It was founded by Baroness Lawrence in memory of her son, Stephen, a promising young architecture student who was murdered in 1993. Here, Elsie Owusu OBE, a Ghanaian-born British architect and activist, discusses Baroness Lawrence’s impact on her own work, and on that of the wider architectural profession in the UK.
