Wongani Mwanza is an architect and director at Transition by Design Cooperative, an architecture and design community interest company based in Oxford. He specialises in community-led design and research projects with an environmental and social justice focus. In 2021, Wongani was selected to be a Design Council Associate Expert on the built environment. He has worked internationally for multi-award winning Krook & Tjäder in Stockholm, Sweden. Wongani is passionate about the circular economy and has researched architectural systems driven by principles of repair and reuse, with his work exhibited in the 2019 RIBA ‘Industrialised’ exhibition at Portland Place, London and hosting an RIBA podcast on the circular economy in 2023. He was a special guest and co-curated Modern Art Oxford's 2022 Adapt Transform Stories, a thematic series on community responses to urban design and creativity. He is an associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes School of Architecture and a mentor for POC in Architecture, which celebrates and supports final year undergraduate architecture students from diverse backgrounds.