James Pockson

Module Leader in Design Speculation, James is a founding director of IDK: A RIBA future winners 2025 practice. (www.idk-o.com)

James is an architect with extensive experience working across the arts, education museum, heritage and exhibition sectors. He is keen on combining his technical expertise with a commitment to building futures that are technologically engaged and conservation led.

Previously, James worked for Herzog and De Meuron in London as part of the delivery team for the Tate Modern extension. Later, as a project architect and senior exhibitions designer at Nissen Richards Studio, he delivered temporary and permanent exhibitions within heritage and conservation contexts including the major refurbishment of the exhibition displays at the Courtauld Galleries. Recently, James delivered the David Bowie Centre and Rotating Displays at the V&A Storehouse, Stratford which opened this summer 2025. He is presently working on a major new archive project at the Museum of London.

James collaborates with a wide range of scientists, thinkers, artists and academics through his platform Postrational: a design and research group that explores environmental futures.  Postrational uses fictional and critical design as a tool to prise open modes of thinking and being that constitute our given reality.(www.postrational.net)