Who We Are

tinkercraft: Design & Advocacy Group designs architectural and public space initiatives to promote climate justice in neighborhoods, cities, and regions facing climate risks and social and environmental vulnerabilities.

We’ve worked with ecologists, planners, architects, biologists, and engineers on projects that range in scale from products to buildings and from street to region. tinkercraft reflects on, and designs for, the intersection of the social and the environmental. Considering all the myriad ways in which these two terms are defined, we remain enthusiastically open about new collaborations.

Nicole Lambrou, Executive Director

Nicole’s work focuses on how the politics of climate resilience shape urban environmental transformations. Her research documents the work of planners, engineers, designers, ecologists, and everyday urban dwellers in making new natures in their cities, and explores the values and spatial imaginaries that drive their efforts. The projects and proposals taken on by tinkercraft are framed by this research.

Nicole is an architect with experience in designing public housing, schools, private institutions, and dwellings. Nicole received an M.Arch. from Yale University, her work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe, and she has received accolades for various architectural submissions throughout her design career. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Urban Planning from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.

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Collaborators

Thomas Auer of Transsolar Energietechnik; Mark Mueckenheim of MCKNHM Architects; Eric Lum, PhD, Architect; Peter Suen of Fifth Arch; Drake Hawthorne; Janet MacKinnon of AE Design; Healthy Active Streets; THRIVE Santa Ana; Wilmington’s Planning Deputy

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Drop us a line, share your thoughts - we're happy to hear from you.nicole@tinkercraft.com