ABOUT MOBIE
Architect and TV Presenter George Clarke founded MOBIE in 2017 to inspire young people to revolutionise the way we think about homes. We need younger generations to define how they want to live now and in the future, and MOBIE helps them do it.
MOBIE promotes the importance of Homes, Education, Innovation and Inspiration to drive our ambition for better standards of living.
MOBIE champions the benefit of well designed and well made homes to our lives. “Home is the most important piece of architecture in our lives. It crafts the way we live, and how we grow as families and communities”
George Clarke – MOBIE Founder
With our education partners, MOBIE has created a unique educational pathway from Schools through to Further and Higher Education and Doctoral Research. We ensure young people can learn at the levels they want and the construction and home building industry needs.
MOBIE connects industry, education and government with young people across the educational spectrum. With real world support, we enable new generations to innovate. Exploring precision engineered, efficient home building processes with greater emphasis on quality, performance and the needs of home users.
MOBIE inspires everyone of any age, with any level of qualification to think about home and the way we live. From digital content, modern construction courses and our outreach challenges, we encourage thinking, making and prototyping homes that inspire generations of future home thinkers.
Manufacturing technology in many industries has advanced at incredible rates, while the home building industry has stood still. It’s time for change. No more dull designs and outdated building methods!
MOBIE inspires young people to imagine the homes of the future while equipping them with knowledge of the latest technologies to realise them. We're driving a leap towards modern methods of construction. A leap that will raise the quality of homes while opening opportunities for a new generation to embrace the challenges ahead.
We have a long way to go to reverse the damage of the last 200 years. Our buildings account for 40% of our CO2 emissions, while construction and demolition contribute to 32% of our landfill waste.
We need urgent improvement! This means investing in new zero carbon homes and updating our 27 million existing homes to be efficient and ecological.
MOBIE believes it is only by engaging with young people that we will have any chance of achieving this. Through our engagement, we bring young people's ambitions to the forefront. Accelerating their ideas towards reality and creating a long term strategy for change.
There is an urgent need for an interdisciplinary space in which creative and energetic minds can come together to reinvent the idea of what homes are and how we make them. MOBIE is that space. Our community creates scope to learn from each other, academic research, new technologies, leading industries and examplar housing in other countries.
From connecting with schools through to partnerships with leaders in housing, technology and manufacturing, MOBIE connects young people with designers, makers, educators, economists, planners and surveyors, establishing a dialogue to reshape the housing industry.
MOBIE is delighted to have been judged as winner of the 'Best Skills & Training Innovation' category at the Building Innovation Awards (2019) and the 'Best Established Not for Profit Organisation' at the Inspire Future Generations awards, created by the Thornton Education Trust (2023).
The Building Innovation Awards celebrate individuals, organisations and projects that are embracing emerging technologies and approaches to take UK construction to the next level, and the Inspire Future Generations awards celebrate excellent projects and programmes, energy and passion of organisations working with young people in the built environment.
