Nick Newman is a Founder of Studio Bark and U-Build. His experience spans environmental architecture, climate activism, building performance evaluation and deep energy retrofits. He is co-author of RIBA titles 'Everything Needs to Change: Architecture and the Climate Emergency', 2021 and 'Protest Architecture: Structures of Civil Resistance', 2024. Protest Architecture was the inspiration for 'Barricade & Beacon', an installation produced at the V&A in collaboration with Studio Bark for London Design Festival. Nick speaks regularly at events on behalf of the studio and was named a ‘Rising Sustainability Star’ by Building magazine in 2014. He is an advocate for radical responses to the Climate Emergency and was arrested in 2019 for his involvement in the Extinction Rebellion protests, which brought central London to a standstill.