Renée
O’Drobinak
Head of Marketing & Communications,
Donald Insall Associates
"
Rumour says she was once crowned a champion of an East London comedy Haiku panel show
Renée cut her teeth in architecture communications at the likes of AJ100 top 10 practice Hawkins\Brown. A keen advocate of uplifting comms pros in the AEC industry, she sits on the steering committee for the built environment networking group Build Up.
A graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art and the London College of Communications, she has been a contemporary artist for over a decade as one-half of the duo Ladies of the Press, specialising in live publishing and audience engagement. In the past, she has led creative workshops for the likes of Tate, Southbank Centre and Wellcome Trust, and has jointly guest lectured on art and print at universities in London, Denver and Oslo.
Rumour says she was once crowned a champion of an East London comedy Haiku panel show — having competed entirely in Japanese and interpretive dance — though she never quite made it to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Q&A
Joris Lechêne on Insta. I admire his ability to take on big topics in the built environment, add his own cutting social commentary to it and also make it human and relatable.