'Heterodox, discordant, audacious, aladin's practice has influenced countless lives through utilising and excelling in multiple approaches and disciplines' (D&AD 'New Blood Festival', 2010)
"Iconoclast who is one of the U.K.'s most celebrated creative talents, bringing inspiration to millions, uniquely integrating strategy, culture and magic." ('Design Inspirations', 2009)
aladin's independent practice encompasses: - Facilitation, moderating and consultancy in respect of strategic thinking and planning, organisational development and civic engagement. - Interdisciplinary cultural creation.
aladin's signature approach is to engage with organisations, communities and individuals in ways which influence them to explore and transcend the existing constraints, cultures and practices that stand in the way of developing and implementing effective, sustainable processes which benefit society more widely.
aladin's professional experience and interests span the public, private and voluntary sectors, ranging from entry to board level and extending from providing strategic counsel and guidance and chairing exchanges to curatingcultural encounter. Based in London but also responding to international briefs, aladin is active: as an executive adviser, sounding board and evaluator; as a facilitator, moderator, speaker, writer and academic; as an artist working across frontiers. Engaging in undertakings on a sessional, project or retained basis aladin has been testing and developing management, social and cultural methodologies across society since the 1980s.
A partial bibliography of aladin's past work may be consulted within this website relating to his work deriving solutions
across: strategy consultancy; academic enquiry; policy- making in culture, media, sport, arts, heritage and tourism; sustainable management; community development; facilitation and moderating; communications consultancy; interdisciplinary cultural animation. Web links are underlined.
aladin's work has been recognised through awards, commendations and citations from: DEFRA/ARUP/Ipsos-Mori, International Federation of Settlements and Neighbourhood Centres (IFS), Financial
Times/Arts & Business, Manchester University, Copenhagen Business
School, Mayor of London/City Hall, D&AD, National Review of Live
Art, The Centre for Performance Research, Time Out/Alternative Arts
International Festival, Portobello Film Festival, Nissan, Magic Academy of Bangalore.
