Trini-Maria Katakwe is a

London-based Spatial Designer

& Cultural Strategist

With a decade of interdisciplinary experience across architecture, scenography, and digital arts, the practice explores the intersection of identity, culture, and place. Creating immersive and community-driven spatial experiences rooted in design, storytelling, and cultural connection.

Based at Somerset House Exchange, her practice collaborates with brands, organisations, and institutions to reimagine the built environment as a platform for cultural dialogue, connection, and collaboration.

With an academic background in architecture and scenography, Trini-Maria holds a BA (Hons) in Architecture from the University of Portsmouth (2017) and an MA in Scenography from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2022). This interdisciplinary foundation informs her approach to designing spaces both structurally and experientially through storytelling and spatial design.

Trini-Maria is currently part of the Elevate 2026 cohort, a global peer-led mentoring programme within the events industry. In parallel, she has been selected as a commissioned creative with UP Projects for the Enfield of Dreams Creative Cluster. The two-year public realm programme with the London Borough of Enfield explores culture, community, and youth-led engagement.

Through mentorship, lectures and workshops, she supports emerging designers and creatives. Fostering curiosity and confidence to encourage thoughtful exploration of ideas, systems and ways of seeing the world.

Rooted in her British-Nigerian-Zambian heritage and shaped by her North London upbringing, Trini-Maria employs Fragmentation as both a conceptual and spatial methodology. Emerging from her ongoing research into the relationship between people and built environments, Fragmentation examines how identity, memory, and cultural narratives coexist within space.

Drawing on organic mark-making influenced by African textile geometry with architectural philosophies, she combines free-flowing pattern systems with structural integrity. Through site-responsive installations and visual research, she layers these fragments into cohesive spatial experiences. Bridging lived experience with design to deepen how people engage with their surroundings.

SELECTED EXPERIENCE

2019(SEPT) - PRESENT

Spatial Designer &

Cultural Strategist: TMK

2024(JUL) - PRESENT

Somerset House Exchange Resident

2025 (MAR - JUN)

Place Champion - Public Arts:

Enfield Council

2025(MAR)

Guest Lecturer

BA Design Management:

UAL London College of Communication

2024(OCT) - PRESENT

Enfield Cultural Partner:

Enfield Council

2022 - 2023

Originals Creator Network in partnership with Adidas London and GUAP Magazine

2021 - 2022 (OCT-SEPT)

Royal Central School of Speech and Drama:

MA Scenography

- Graduated with a Distinction

2018 - 2020 (DEC-SEPT)

Set + Event Designer: Broadsword Event House

2017 - 2018 (DEC-JUN)

Architectural Assistant:

DOS Architects

2014 - 2017 (SEPT-JUN)

University of Portsmouth: BA (Hons) Architecture

- Graduated with

First Class Honours

SELECTED CLIENTS & COLLABORATORS:

Adidas, Ad Lib Gallery, Chicago Architecture Biennale, Chicago Cultural Center, Christian Aid, Enfield Council, Es Devlin Studio, Ezra Collective, GUAP Magazine, HSBC, ITV, Limbo Accra, Mayor of London, RULA, Saatchi Gallery, Somerset House, The North Face, University of the Arts London

"by grace I create"