Team

Maeve is an Associate at New Practice. She is part of the Senior Leadership Team and is a founding employee at the practice working from the Glasgow office since 2019.

Her work at New Practice has spanned across built design projects, rigorous spatial strategies, and the delivery of event-based architecture. At the smaller scale, projects include delivering high street parklet structures, at the bigger scale leading the delivery of a 1.5 hectare meanwhile-use public space on behalf of City of Edinburgh Council. The provision of community spaces and public realm - in both permanent and temporary settings - are typologies that Maeve’s work often covers.

With a particular focus on Scotland, Maeve works with the Directors to support business development, regularly contributing in a leading role to public and private sector bids and procurement processes internally within the practice and externally as part of complex design teams.

Outside of New Practice, Maeve teaches at Glasgow School of Art. She also sits on the Board at Impact Arts, a national charity with the remit to transform lives through participation in creative activities.

Barbara is a Senior Designer & Architect. She joined New Practice in 2022.

Her work spans built design projects, feasibility studies, and the design and delivery of complex engagement programmes. This includes developing retrofit proposals for buildings across Scotland, creating action plans for urban and design strategy implementation, and facilitating stakeholder and community workshops. She has contributed to major city-wide consultations, like the Glasgow Liveable Neighbourhoods project, and is currently supporting rural communities in Scotland in developing their Local Place Plans.

Barbara is passionate about participatory architecture and collaborative processes, especially their role in shaping urban and social regeneration. Her work aims to promote inclusive, sustainable solutions that enhance the quality of life for communities by creating spaces that meet real needs.

In 2023, Barbara was selected as one of four ‘Under 40 Experts’ to participate in the Creative Communities 2023 Residency, a community-led policy-making project in Southern Italy. This initiative led by Fondazione Matera-Basilicata 2019 and funded by the European Union, focused on community-driven approaches to policy and design.

Samuel is a Senior Designer. He joined New Practice in 2021, and has worked on projects from concept to delivery. This has included an exhibition and events site for COP26, a biodiversity focussed meanwhile space at Walk-Up Avenue, and has led major consultation, placemaking and master planning projects for private, public and community clients across both urban and rural settings.

He is driven by the social and political implications of how we prescribe meaning to the places we inhabit. As a queer-identifying designer, this comes from a personal lens of equitable agency and the provision of space and safety for all members of society, from all backgrounds and of all identities; he is passionate about forefronting intersectional, queer experiences and perspectives on culture and society.

Samuel is a foundational committee member and Chair of Open Plan Scotland, a volunteer-led advocacy and support network for the LGBTQIA+ community studying or working in Architecture in Scotland.

Zoe is a Designer at New Practice, based in the Glasgow office since 2021. Before joining, she worked at Page\Park as an Architectural Assistant. Most recently, Zoe has led key projects including the redevelopment of George Square in Glasgow and The Denis Law Legacy Trail in Aberdeen. She has also contributed to major public realm projects such as Grosvenor Square in London and Glasgow’s Liveable Neighbourhoods.

Zoe played a lead role in converting a former framer’s workshop into a community pantry and food hub, and has worked on retrofit projects like the transformation of Cumberland Street Station into a cultural venue. She holds a first-class Architecture degree from the Glasgow School of Art and completed an Art Foundation Diploma at Manchester School of Art.