Cambridge · establihed . 2025 · Documentation OF Indvidual, FROM THE INDIVDUAL
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”Cambridge · est. 2025 · Documentation as Dignity
We sit with people, draw, talk, and turn what they say into something they can hold.
An equal conversation between two people.
We use technology to put the individual words on the page — voice transcription, drawing tablets, whatever fits the person — so the work belongs to them, in their own language.
The Garvald Globe was the first version of this: eight pages, made with residents and staff, twenty years ago.
Ditchburn Place is the current one.
This isn't a one-afternoon workshop. It isn't an Instagram tree handed out with crayons to colour in. We work with real memories, over time, with people whose stories matter to them. Patient, slow, on a level.
No false deadlines.






For The Record CIC · Company No. 16630605 · 19 Holland Street, Cambridge, CB4 3DL
When something doesn't work we take time to talk out loud and work through it together.
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