Who We Are
Meet the team driving sustainable mobility. Discover our experts and join our mission to create walkable communities.
Steve Hoffman
Initiator implementor, designer and proprietor of the TO WALK project
"My expertise and experience, developed over the last thirty years, has strongly influenced my design ethos and approach to my business practice and higher education design contexts, particularly in the three-dimensional disciplines.
My design expertise is multidisciplinary, the various incarnations of my design practise have had me involved in landscape photography and graphic design, but my preferred 'design home' is in the three-dimensional product world.
I have over 30 years’ experience in design of furniture for the early years and primary educational environments, and this expertise and experience influences the outcomes of the projects undertaken to develop our practice product portfolio.
My designs are imbued with an innovative 'User Rich' research and development approach, which, I believe, adds both user value and sustainability to our products' performance.
My previous practice, KAN-GAR-ROO Ltd, launched in 2010 and wound up in 2018 was a design practice developing innovative ‘curriculum rich’ furniture for a new generation of early years and primary educational contexts."
KAN-GAR-ROO Portfolio
Strijbos & Van Rijswijk
Soundscape composers and occasional contributors to the TO WALK project
"Our installations and compositions transform the familiar into the extraordinary. In our work we use live and recorded, digital and analogue sound, live performances and the location where they take place.
We are building new, unique musical tools and platforms to deliver our work. We play with perceptions of what is real and what is not.
Coasts, landscapes, lake shores, cityscapes, glaciers, museums, concert halls; we take our audience on imaginative journeys.
With over 25 years of experience, we have created a body of work through continuous experimentation and application of creativity that breaks new ground in participatory site-specific sound artworks."
Jake Attree
Landscape fine artist and regular contributor to the TO WALK project
"Painting is poetry, not documentary. It’s the art of suggestion.
Yorkshire’s geology, history and culture are woven into Jake's creative DNA."
Andrew Robinson
Freelance designer, web developer, educator, and 3D artist based in Sheffield, UK.
Co-founder of AW–AR Studio.