Indy is an architect by training and a maker by practice. He is a Senior Innovation Associate with the Young Foundation. Among other organisations, he co-founded Impact Hub Birmingham and Open Systems Lab. He was a member of the RSA’s Inclusive Growth Commission and a good growth advisor to the Mayor of London. He is an explorative practitioner in the means of system change and the dark matter design of civic infrastructure finance, outcomes, and governance. 

Indy has taught and lectured at various institutions from the University of Bath, TU-Berlin; University College London, Princeton, Harvard, MIT and New School. He is currently a professor at RMIT University. 

He is a Director of Architecture 00 and Dark Matter Laboratories, a planetary organisation developing new working methods for system change. He was awarded the London Design Medal for Innovation in 2022 and an MBE for Services to Architecture in 2023.