Isabelle Haddow is a recent graduate from the School of Oriental and African Studies, part of the University of London. She has been working with Feria Urbanism over recent months, after getting in touch via the SEDF. She has supported our work with the parish councils around Maidstone in Kent.

Issy was a key part of our team. She undertook site assessments and reviewed the issues affecting these local communities. Issy also met parish council representatives and facilitated our successful community engagement events.

She is interested in art, architecture and design and has recently become interested in a career in urban planning. From her university degree, she is greatly interested in culture and how it is expressed in the built environment. Her university dissertation was on a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Indonesia, looking at how it was preserved and its cultural identity within Indonesia as a newly formed republic in the 1960s. Isabelle is currently looking to undertake a post-graduate Masters degree in Urban Planning.