Projects
The following is the combined achievements of Dr Rod Hackney and Tia Kansara
1967-68 Housing & Conservation Architect, Libyan Government, Tripoli, Libya
1968-71 Assistant to Arne Jacobsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1968-69 Master of Arts @ School of Architecture, Manchester University, UK
1969Part 3 RIBA completed, Associate, Royal Institute of British Architects.
1971-73PhD study at Manchester University. UK
1971-73Established architectural business in UK
1972-4Counter culture timeline, page 2, ‘Rod Hackney writing PhD….’ http://www.well.com/~mareev/TIMELINE/1972-1974.html
1972First professional work of Housing Renewal in Black Road, Macclesfield, UK
1973Community Action magazine, ‘Black Road keeps it up’, pp29-31 Jan-Feb, London UK
1973Described as “Community architect, mark 1 – profile of Rod Hackney”, in an article by Charles Knevitt http://www.mcgill.ca/files/mchg/chapter4.pdf
1974 BBC TV full length Tuesday Documentary on Rod Hackney in Community participation
1974Architect to completed Black Road General Improvement Area No 1, Macclesfield, UK
1974Community Action magazine, ‘Black Road success, pp31-35, Jan-Feb, London UK
1975 1st prize in Department of Environment Awards for Good Design in Housing
1975-83Established a number of offices throughout the U.K to carry out urban renewal;
in Belfast, Birmingham, Cleator Moor, Carlisle, Millom, Whitehaven, Clitheroe,
Manchester, Leicester, Chesterfield, Stoke-on-Trent, Burnley, and Stirling. UK
1975Architects’ Journal, ‘Black Road GIA in Macclesfield’, pp995-1002, London, UK
1975Architect for George Arthur Road and St Saviours Rd envelope scheme, Birmingham, UK
1976Chair of the Community Architecture Group, Royal institute of British Architects, UK
19761st Prize St Ann's Hospice Architectural Competition, completed in 1979, Manchester, UK
1977Architect, improvement area, Longridge & Clitheroe. Ribble Valley, Lancashire, UK
1976Architects’ Journal article on St. Ann’s Hospice, 17 November, P 920.
1977 Subject of Tomorrow's World BBC1 Documentary, UK
1977 Associate - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK
1977Architect, general improvement & housing, Cleator Moor, Cumbria, UK
1977 Architectural Association Lecture, London, UK
1977Architects’ Journal, 5th October, pp 629-636 ‘current projects by Rod Hackney’, London UK
1978Elected to National Member to the Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects, UK
1978Architect, Rydal Street new housing * general improvement, Carlisle, Cumbria, UK
1979Architect to completed Black Road General Improvement Area no 2, Macclesfield, UK
1979 Completion of PhD Manchester University, UK
1979 Main Speaker at Royal Australian Institute of Architects Golden jubilee, Perth, Australia
1979Architect, Tenesta housing upgrading, Stockholm, Sweden
1979 Prix International d'Architecture de l'Institut National du Logement, Belgium
1980 RICS/The Times Conservation Awards (Commended) for Urban Renewal, UK
1980Architect to Moor End housing improvement scheme, Manchester, UK
1980 & 81 Visiting Professor, Darmstadt Summer School, Deutscher Werkbund, Darmstadt, Germany
1980Architect for Housing Association housing improvements, Workington, Cumbria, UK
1980 Guest Speaker with Walter Segal on self-help to Lombardy Architects, Milan, ltaly
1980Architect, Millom regeneration project, Cumbria, UK
1980 Department of Environment Awards for Good Design in Housing for Housing Renewal UK
1980 Civic Trust Awards for Black Road No conservation for Housing, UK
1981Architect, Graver Weir 2 up, 1 down stone housing, Rossendale, Lancashire UK
1981 Keynote Address, Commonwealth Association of Architects Conference, Nairobi, Kenya
1981 Main Speaker, RIBA Eastern Region Annual Conference, Ely, UK
1981 Advisor with Richard Rogers & Norman Foster, Better Architecture, Parliament, UK
1981Architectural Advisor – self-help renovation, Kreutzburg, Germany
1981-83 Vice President RIBA for Public Affairs, London, UK
1981 Elected Council Member of the Union of International Architects, Katowice, Poland.
1981 Sir Robert Matthews Award (Honourable Mention) for Urban Regeneration, Paris, France
1981Architect to completed new McMillan Homes hospice, Little Hulton, Manchester, UK
1981 Civic Trust Award Commendation for St Ann's Hospice. UK
1981Architect, 2 up, 2 down stone housing, Bank Parade, Burnley, Lancashire UK
1982 Jury Member for Cembureau Award for low-rise inner-city housing. France
1982Architect North Evington housing action area & new build housing scheme, Leicester, UK
1982 Manchester Society of Architects President's Award for Urban housing, Manchester, UK
1982-3 Chair of architectural Jury for Herouville Town Centre Competition, France
1982Architect, Trafalgar Road, new housing & environmental scheme, Birmingham, UK
1982 Keynote Speaker on sustainable housing, Gottlieb-Duttwelier Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
1982Architect, Westminster Road, Handsworth housing enhancement scheme, Birmingham, UK
1983 Otis Award "1982 - The Urban Scene, London, UK
1983 Jury Member, Prix International d'Architecture de lnstitut National du-Iogement, Belgium
1983Architect, Weavers Triangle Industrial renovation area, Burnley, UK
1983Architect to completed Macmillan hospice, Heald Green, Manchester, UK
1983Visiting professor at Summer school in Fontainbleau, France,
1983Architect, Hyson Green projected replacement housing, Nottingham, UK
1983Teacher at EAAE Workshop, Brussels, Belgium
1983 Gold Medal of the Bulgarian Architectural Academy, for urban housing, Sofia, Bulgaria
1983 Young Architect of the Biennale, Sofia 1983, Bulgaria
1983Architect, Woodvale and Shankill housing area, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
1983 Editorial Board - international Architect Magazine, London, UK
1983 Keynote address on planning and architecture to El Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile
1983Architect, Westminster Road, Handsworth housing enhancement scheme, Birmingham, UK
1983 Main speaker on Community Architecture to Hungarian Architects, Budapest. Hungary
1983Architect, Colquhoun Street self-build new & rehabilitation scheme, Stirling, Scotland UK
1984RIBA 150th Anniversary, acknowledgement by HRH Prince Charles in his speech, UK
1984Architect, Albert Road, new housing & environmental scheme, Birmingham, UK
1984Head of British delegation, Anglo,/Soviet Cultural Agreement, Moscow, Leningrad, USSR
1984Visiting Professor - UP6 Paris; housing sustainability, France
1984Civic Trust Award Housing in North Evington, Leicester. UK
1985Architect, Hawes Street new and rehabilitation housing, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
1985Architects’ Journal, ‘THE HACKNEY PHENOMENON’, pp47-61, 20th Feb, London, UK
1985First Vice President - UIA (International Union of Architects), Cairo, Egypt
1982Architect, Brighton Road, new housing & environmental scheme, Birmingham, UK
1985Newspaper article: J. Lubbock & J. Turner. "A design with people in mind" Guardian, London, UK. http://www.artdesigncafe.com/community-architecture-1992
1985-87Prince Charles visited Rod Hackney schemes in Macclesfield, Burnley & Stirling, UK
1985Architect, new hospital, Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK
1985President - Young Architect World Forum, Sofia, Bulgaria
1985Architect, Congleton new doctors’ Surgery, Congleton, UK
1985-89Chair - The Times/RIBA Community Enterprise Scheme, London, UK
1986President - Building Communities Conference, London, UK
1986Architect, Chester St. new build and factory conversion to housing, Chesterfield, UK
1986-97Chairman of Trustees - Inner City Trust, UK
1986Grand Medal, Fed. De Colegios de Arquitectos de la Republica Mexicana, Mexico
1986Presenter, International Year of Shelter for the Homeless to all four Party Conferences, UK
1987-2012 Architect, Roan Court New Build Housing, Macclesfield, UK
1987Building Magazine, ‘Puzzling Hackney”, pp28-41, London, UK
1987Featured in Nick Wates & Charles Knevitt. Community Architecture. (Penguin Books, 1987) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Community-Architecture-Charles-Knevitt/dp/0140104283
1987Keynote address to Habitat Forum on Urban Renewal, Berlin, Germany
1987Readers Digest article, ‘Rod Hackney’s People Buildings’ page 68, London, UK
1987Guest Teacher, Eton College, Eton, UK
1987-2003President of the Snowdonia National Park Society, Wales, UK
1987BBC-TV documentary: OMNIBUS: The Hackney Way; on UK
1987-89President of The Royal institute of British Architects, London, UK
1987Hon. Member, Consejo Superior De los Colegios De Arquitectos De Espana, Madrid, Spain
1987Panelist - BBC-TV – QUESTION TIME, UK
1987Architect, 6 recycled materials new housing, Beechfield Road, Alderley Edge, UK
1987-90Special Professor in Architecture - The University of Nottingham, UK
1987-2012Member, Chartered Institute of Building, UK
1988Guest Speaker, Oxford Union Debate with Jonathan Porritt, Oxford, UK
1988PA Award for innovation in Building Design & Construction,
1988-1991Architect, Colquhoun Self Build Cooperative, Stirling, Scotland, UK
1987-1990President - International Union of Architects, Paris, France
1987Architect, Adelphi Mill, Bollington rehabilitation, UK
1988-Hon. Fellow - American Institute of Architects for city innovation, New York, USA
1988Editorial Board Journal of Architectural Theory and Criticism, Paris, France
1988Panelist, BBC Radio, ANY QUESTIONS, UK
1988Speaker, ARCASIA Conference, Seoul, South Korea
1988Hon. Fellow - Federacion de Colegios de Arquitectos, Mexico City, Mexico
1988-Patron - Llandudno Museum & Art Gallery, Cymru, UK
1988Hon.Fellow - United Architects of the Philippines, Manila, the Philippines
http://www.united-architects.org/index.php/about-us/awards-and-recognition/honorary-fellows.html
1988Speaker with Hon. Ranasingle Premadasa, Colombo, Sri Lanka
1988Guest Speaker, Manchester Grammar School, Manchester UK
1988Architect, Pearls Farm, Algreave, Cheshire, UK
1988Exhibition of Rod Hackney's Architectural work opened by Lord Scarman, London, UK
1988Speaker, ‘making cities livable’, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
1989Honorary Degree - Doctor of Letters - University of Keele, UK
1989 Architect, High Street housing conservation area, Macclesfield, UK
1989Award, City of Charleston, USA, Making Cities Livable Conference, South Carolina, USA
1989Council Member - National Historical Building Crafts Institute, UK
1989-1991Immediate Past President - Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK
1989Visiting Professor, College of Architecture/Technology, Xian University, Xian, China
1989Speaker, School of Architecture, Tsinghua Universty, Beijing, China
1990Publication of Autobiographical Book - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY, London, UK
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19524702
1990Hon. Fellow. - Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Montreal, Canada
https://portal.raic.org/fr/civicrm/profile/view?reset=1&id=5191&gid=10
1990Hon. Fellow. - Indian Institute of Architects, New Delhi, India
1990Architect, JOHN street housing, Macclesfield, UK
1990Advisor and lecture tour on architecture and EEC Urban initiatives, Japan
1990New York Magazine, March 19, p44, “Prince of the City’, New York, USA http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=C8FDUtp9hrgC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=prince+of+the+city+-+john+taylor++New+York+Magazine&source=bl&ots=huH6o3NTWb&sig=5c6nglGZBJ_Ji8b3Dlj6q6XnKJQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cYp0T8yOJar80QWyms0M&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
1990Architectural Adviser to City of Stockholm & Narbo Aktiebolog - Tensta, Sweden
1990Architect, Back Forest farmhouse, Wincle, Cheshire, UK
1990Lecture to Architects and Planners, Istanbul, Turkey
1990Keynote speaker to the BDA, Hanover conference on architecture, Germany
1990Talk on architecture to Egyptian Society of Architects. Cairo. Egypt.
1990Keynote, New Trends in architecture, English Speaking Union, San Francisco, USA
1990Visiting lecturer, ‘sustainable architecture’, Delft School of Design, Netherlands
1990Advisor to the Mayor and Officials, Venice, 'The Needs of the City’, Italy
1990-99President, the North Wales Centre of the National Trust, Cymru, UK
1991Advisor with Mr. Susil Sirivardana, NHDA, Sri Lanka, at Windsor Castle, UK
1991-2West End Musical play, ‘Good Golly Miss Molly’, by Bob Eaton, premiered at New Victoria Theatre, based on Rod Hackney's community architecture work, Stoke & London, UK
1991British Council Architectural Advisory tour, in Madras, New Delhi & Bombay, lndia
1991Architect, Listed building, Prince Albert Road, London, UK
1991Exchange of ideas on ‘shelter for the people’, with Mother Theresa, Calcutta, India
1991-99Council Member - Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK
1991-93Immediate Past President, International Union of Architects, Paris, France
1991 Architectural Adviser to Mayor of Trento, Italy - downtown renewal, Trento, Italy
1991Architectural Consultant to Chapman Clarke Films – Europe by Design - for BBC tv, UK
1991Architectural advisory tour in Sri Lanka, sponsored by British Council, Colombo, Sri Lanka
1991Architect, Canal Hotel, former Hovis Mill, Macclesfield, UK
1991Architectural Jury member and Adviser to DVA international Competition, The Netherlands
1991-97Architectural Adviser to Mayors of city of Meridian, Mississippi, USA
1992-94RIBA Vice-President: International Affairs, London, UK
1992-Consultant to WORLD ARCHITECTURE REVIEW AGENCY, Shenzhen. China
1992Agenda 21 reporter, Rio de Janeiro, UNCED Conference, Brazil.
1992Adviser to University of Manchester for International Architectural Studies, UK
1992Architect, Conservation Hotel, Tunis City, Tunis
1993Address to El Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile, Santiago, Chile
1993-96Keynote address’, Livable City Conferences, Mississippi, USA
1993UIA Gold Medal Jury Member, Paris, France
1993Keynote - International Biennale for Architecture, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1993-94Chair, Royal Institute of British Architects Corporate Plan, London, UK
1993International advisor at University of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
1993Guest speaker & Presenter, Institute of Architects Inner city Forum, Karachi, Pakistan
1993Business Enterprise Award commendation for Stoke-on Trent housing, UK
1994Speaker at Office for Public Management Conference, London, UK
1994Hon. Member Rural Buildings Preservation Trust, UK
1994Architectural Advisor to Centre for Human Settlements, Calcutta, India
1995Speaker at UNESCO conference on 'building preservation', Vinci, Tuscany, Italy.
1995Visiting Professor to Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
1995Visiting Professor, University of Planning, Chongqing University, China.
1995Keynote- International Housing Symposium, Action Planning, Madrid, Spain
1995Keynote, School of Architecture, Howard- University, Washington, USA
1995Organiser, International Congress on Human Settlements in Developing Countries, India
199528-day architectural advisory tour, British-American-Canadian Associates, Canada & USA
1995Architect, Serotina housing, Alderley Edge, UK
1995Address to AIA Chapter, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
1995Architect, Wilmslow Hospital, Cheshire, UK
1995Keynote lecture to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, USA
1995Architect, Millennium Expo Competition, Greenwich - Short Listed, UK
1995Speaker, Elliot-Winant Lecture Fellowship, Virginia Society of AIA, Richmond, Virginia, USA
1995-2001Director - RIBA Companies Limited, London, UK.
1995Natural Stone Award, Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s house, Sydmonton Court, UK
http://www.albionstonequarries.com/portfolio_item_sydmonton_court.html
1995Keynotes at Texas A & M University, College Station & University of Texas, Austin. USA
1995Architect, Hovis Mill, Macclesfield, UK
1995Lecture on British Architecture to the AIA Chapter, Dallas, Texas, USA
1995Consultant to Chapman Clarke Films - 'Forever England’, Central TV, UK
1995Lecture on community architecture to Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
1995-6Architects Jury member, American Institute of Architects Awards 1995/6, Texas, USA
1995Elliot-Winant Lecture Fellowship workshop, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
1995Elliot -Winant keynote address, AIA Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1995Keynote with President Benazir Bhutto, 'Writers & Intellectuals'- Islamabad, Pakistan.
1995Speaker on Community Architecture, to the Jerusalem architects Society, Jerusalem, Israel
1996Lecture, Hogeschool Mideen Brabant & IHS, on "Planning for Real", Netherlands
1996Speaker with Rem Koolhous, Academy of Architecture, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1996Member of the Association of Planning Supervisors, Scotland, UK
1996World Habitat Award, UN Citation, 'Rod Hackney-2l Years of community architecture', UK
http://www.worldhabitatawards.org/winners-and-finalists/project-details.cfm?lang=00&theProjectID=75
1996Housing Advisor - Habitat Centre News Journal, Calcutta, India
1996BBC Radio 4 Programme - "Common Ground", London, UK
1996Keynote, ‘architects in the 21st C’, 4th Russian Festival Architecture, Moscow, Russia
1996Attained Quality Assured status under ISO 9001 Registration, UK
1996Editing day facilitator with Nick Wates, HRH The Prince of Wales Inst. of Arch, London, UK
1997Visiting Professor Sunshant School of Art & Architecture, New Delhi, India
1996Times Higher Education Supplement, ‘at home in the inner city’, London, UK
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=163677§ioncode=20
1997Keynote on Community Architecture, TV School for Habitat Studies, New Delhi, India
1997Architect, Hindu Temple, Saltley, Birmingham, UK
1997Participant at Windsor Castle conference, Social Housing Foundation, Windsor, UK.
1997Charles M. Sappenfield lecturer, ‘Architecture’, Ball State University, Muncie. Indiana USA
1997-2003President, Snowdonia Society, Wales, - Llwydd Cymdeithas Eryri, Cymru, UK
1997-98Member of Hearings Panel, Discipline Committee, RIBA, London, UK
1997Coordinator / Speaker, Livable Communities Conference, Meridian, Mississippi, USA
1997-99Chair General Policy Committee, Union Internationale des Architects, Paris, France
1997Keynote with Oscar Niemeyer, XV Congresso Brasileiro de Arquitetos, Curitiba, Brazil
1997Consultant to Ministry of Housing, Port Louis, Mauritius
1998Keynote with Jaime Lerner, Centro de arquitetura e urbanismo Traco 98, Curitiba, Brazil
1998 President, International Council for Caring Communities, UN, New York, USA
1998 Facilitator at Windsor Castle Consultancy, 'Housing for the Elderly', Windsor, UK
1998-99 Hon. Librarian, Royal Institute of British-Architects, London. U.K.
1998Recipient of Past Presidents Medal of the UIA, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1998 Contributor to book, " Cinquantenaire de IUA, Paris, France
1998- Trustee of-the British Architectural Library Trust, London, U.K.
1998Speaker, National Housing/Planning conference, Eastbourne, UK
1999Speaker, United Nations headquarters, ‘Communities for the 21st Century’, New York, USA
1999Architect, hydrogen powered pod, Greenwich Millennium competition, UK
1999 International Jury member for the UIA World student Architecture Prize, Xian, China.
1999 Visiting Professor, Xian University, Xian, China
1999- Patron, Dome Project, Buxton, Derbyshire, UK
1999Speaker, College of Architecture/Technology, Xian University, Xian, China
1999- Chair, British Architectural Library Trust, London, UK
2000 Career Architectural Prize Committee, Theatres, Architecture, Museums, Turin, Italy
2000 Speaker, Senior Housing, Merchandise Mart, Chicago. USA
2000 Speaker, RAIA Congress, ‘Architecture 2000’, Sydney, Australia
2000 Speaker, Housing for the Prior, Nairobi, Kenya
2000 Facilitator and Patron, UlA Congress on Humanity, Quality and Ability, Oxford, UK
2000 Speaker, Genius Loci, Bucharest, Rumania
2001-02 Chair RIBA Discipline Hearings Panel. United Kingdom.
2002 Design Architect with Shenzhen School of Architecture, housing scheme Shenzhen, China.
2002-08 Member RIBA Council, United Kingdom..
2002 Academic visit, talks on Sustainable Architecture in Tehran, Yazd, Isfahan, & Fars Iran.
2003 Architect, house, Collar House Drive, Prestbury, Cheshire, UK
2002-08 Chair RIBA Disciplinary Committee. United Kingdom, UK
2002 Architect for Ivy House improvements, Edale, UK. http://www.visitpeakdistrict.com/Edale-Self-Catering-Carringtons-Barn-at-Ivy-House-Farm/details/?dms=2&pid=6120125
2003 Board member, U.N. Habitat Awards Advisory Group, UN, USA
2003 - Honorary advisor, Chinese Society of Architects, Beijing, China.
2003 Completed Presidency of Snowdonia Society, Wales, United Kingdom.
2004 Chair, United Nations Habitat - Best Practice Awards, Dubai, UAE.
http:/www.unhabitat.org/print.asp?cid=809&catid=34&typeid=6
2005 Lecture with Istanbul architects and attendee at UIA Conference, Istanbul, Turkey
2005 Visiting lecturer, School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
http://www.mcgill.ca/architecture/highlights/2006/
2005 Competition Judge, new housing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
2006 Competition Judge, New City Hall, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
2007 keynote speaker, Housing Symposium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. http://0067434.netsolhost.com/prog/speaker_detail.asp?id=20
2007 Design Architect, housing accommodation for Dubai Industrial City, Dubai, UAE.
2008 Registered with World Architecture Community, http://www.worldarchitecture.org/profiles/?wamnum=795
2008 Keynote, Batimat Trade Fair, ‘housing’, Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, UAE
2009 Co-founder and director, with Tia Kansara, of Kansara Hackney Limited, UK a sustainable architecture and economics consultancy. www.kansarahackney.com/kh/Home.html
2009 keynote speaker with Tia Kansara, School of Architecture and planning, Costa Rica.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1qsXY-_psA
2009 Advisor with Tia Kansara, UNESCO Havana World Heritage Site, Cuba.
2009 keynote speaker with Tia Kansara, health and economic convergence, McGill University,
Montreal, Canada. http://www.mcgill.ca/files/mwp/OC07_CW_Sustainable.CIRC.pdf
2009 keynote speaker with Tia Kansara, New Delhi School of Structure and Planning, India.
2010 Architectural advisor with Tia Kansara, Saudi American Bank New Headquarters, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
2010 keynote with Tia Kansara, Turkish Chamber of Architects, housing a human right, Ankara, Turkey.
2010 keynote speaker with Tia Kansara, Musashi Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
2010 organiser and co-facilitator with Tia and Hema Kansara, Kansara Hackney Conference on Sustainability for life, Oxford, United Kingdom..
2010 speaker with Tia Kansara, community architecture and economics, Archibat, Salon de d’Architecture, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa.
2011 keynote speaker with Hema Kansara, architectural conservation, Hemudu International Forum, Yuyao City, Zhejiang Province, China.
2011 Tripoli, proposed completion scheme for Oskar Niemeyer’s World Fair site, Lebanon,
2011 keynote speaker, World Council of Genetics, healthy nutrition & healthy people, Olympia, Greece.
2011 organiser and co-facilitator with Tia and Hema Kansara, Kansara Hackney Conference on Cities of the future 2050, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia.
2011 Book contributor, ‘… Healthy People’ edited by Dr Simopoulos, Washington, USA http://content.karger.com/produktedb/produkte.asp?doi=10.1159/000327826&typ=pdf
2011 Registered as a RIBA Senior Conservation Architect, United Kingdom.
2011 keynote speaker with Tia Kansara, Societing Summer School, Community Architecture, Cava de Tirreni, Napoli, Italy. http://www.societing.org/wp-content/uploads/Quaderni_del_Societing_2011.pdf
2012 Architect, Engine House Listed Building conversion, Union Road, Macclesfield, UK
2012 Vice President, United Nations. International Students Competition for Council for Caring Communities, New York, USA
2012 Speaker Leek Civic Society, Staffordshire, UK
2012 Speaker, United Architects of the Phillipines conference, Manila, Phillipines
2012 for reduced size biographical information see: http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/h/6649/Roderick%20Peter%20(Rod)+HACKNEY.aspx
2012 Attendance at Rio+20 Summit, following on from Rod’s attendance in 1992. Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Visit to Favelas, meeting Secretary General of United Nations, President Hollande of France, Energy Secretary of the United Nations, Masdar Team, Albert Dubler UIA President, Christian Lepratti, co-curator of Durbanisation.
2012 Create 2032, advisory for the Austrian Business Association.
2012 Lecture at CEPT, Gujarat on Sustainable Cities.
2012 Sight visit: Kerala, Trishur KERATECH: Organic Farming practices.
2012 Tia Kansara lectures on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods at Zayed University.
2012 Rod Hackney Judges the Anti-Malaria competition in Cameroon, Architecture for Health: Archive Global: Architecture For Health in Vulnerable Environments. Designing houses that prevent malaria.
2012 Rod Hackney (Co-Chair) Tia Kansara (Advisory Board) on the United Nations backed ICCC Student competition.
2012 Tia Kansara is invited to present an academic poster at the Fulbright conference on Sustainable Cities in Abu Dhabi: Under the Patronage of HH Shaykh Nahyan bin Nahyan
