Ama Ofori-Darko is a designer, researcher and graduate of the MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Cambridge, where she began her ongoing research exploring the urban condition of churches within London’s African and Caribbean communities. She has also studied at the Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association, driving her interest in how academia can broaden its canon to engage with forms of knowledge that may be overlooked, in a bid to empower architectural education’s increasingly diverse student body.

Alongside working within practice FT Architects, Ama is a contributor on the Church of England’s Net Zero & Building Services Committee - the national body tasked with ensuring the Church of England’s building portfolio meets its environmental commitments by the year 2030.

Between 2022-2024, she was a member of the core team at Black Females in Architecture, a grassroots organisation advocating for greater equity within the design industry. Within this role, she was an invited participant at the 2023 Venice Biennale where she developed the technical design of BFA’s installation for the Curator’s Special Project and contributed to the Biennale’s wider Carnival Event Series.