
Dinah Bornat is the co-founder of ZCD Architects. ZCD design child friendly and inclusive developments and have co-produced two toolkits to help others do the same, ‘Voice Opportunity Power’ and ‘Family Voices Toolkit’.
Dinah is a child-friendly cities expert and researcher and has helped develop policy, guidance and best practices around inclusive engagement. Her work has had a significant impact at local, London, UK, and international levels.
She is the author of ‘All to Play for: How to design child friendly housing’ which was published by RIBA publishing in February 2025.
Dinah is a former Mayor’s Design Advocate for the Mayor of London and currently a Design Review Panel member for Harrow, Hounslow, and Brent councils.
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