Judah Armani is one of the UK’s most highly recognised service designers working in social impact, with more than two decades of practice across justice, housing and poverty. His work has been honoured with major international design awards, including iF Global Social Impact Awards for Crossbar and Lucky13’s, an iF Gold Award for Social Impact for Aux Magazine, the London Design Award for Social Innovation, and a D&AD Social Impact shortlist. He has also received wider recognition for social innovation and civic contribution, including the NatWest Social Enterprise of the Year Award for InHouse Records, The Big Issue Changemaker Award, the Governor of Connecticut’s Award for Outstanding Service to the State, and the hugely prestigious Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education. Across this body of work, he has focused on designing with, rather than for, people experiencing poverty, homelessness, prison and probation, building initiatives that create measurable change while redistributing authorship and agency. Judah leads the social impact studio on the MA Service Design programme at the Royal College of Art and is a visiting professor at leading design schools worldwide. He also teaches in state inner-city high schools and pupil referral units, where he is committed to making design capabilities accessible to all, enabling wider participation in how we govern our society. Rooted in John Ruskin’s belief that “there is no wealth but life,” Judah is a board member of the Guild of St George, the educational charity founded in 1871 by Ruskin, to advance art, craft, design and the rural economy in line with social and ethical values. He serves as a non-executive director of Brighton Festival, where he helps steward one of Europe’s leading arts festivals as a form of civic infrastructure—a place where culture, design and public life meet to test better ways of being together.