Making Space Podcast
Exploring Creativity, Society and the Roundhouse
Making Space: Exploring Creativity, Society, and the Roundhouse is a six-part podcast series from the Roundhouse hosted by CEO and Artistic Director Marcus Davey.
Across intimate, in-depth conversations, the series brings together leading artists, writers, and cultural thinkers to explore creativity as a powerful social force and to ask what it takes to build environments where imagination can truly thrive.
From personal journeys to wider cultural challenges, each episode reflects on how creativity shapes identity, opportunity, and society, and the role institutions play in supporting the next generation of talent.
Featuring guests including actors, sculptors, poets, and visionaries connected to the Roundhouse, Making Space is a celebration of bold ideas, creative freedom, and the power of artistic community.
Look out for new episodes dropping weekly!
Oscar-winning actor, writer, producer, and director Daniel Kaluuya joins Marcus Davey for the opening episode of Making Space. Kaluuya reflects on his journey from Camden youth theatre programmes to international success, and the role early creative spaces played in shaping his voice and ambition.
He explores intuition, independence, and the importance of empowering young people to take ownership of their creative futures. As Associate Artistic Director at the Roundhouse and founder of Centre 59, he also discusses how institutions can support emerging talent without limiting their growth, alongside wider reflections on the future of creativity in a changing world.
A landmark first episode setting the tone for a series about creativity, community, and the spaces that make both possible.
One of the world’s greatest living artists and former winner of the Turner Prize, Sir Antony Gormley, joins Roundhouse CEO and Artistic Director Marcus Davey for the second episode of the Roundhouse’s podcast – Making Space, which explores arts, creativity, society and our humanity.
In this episode, Sir Antony talks about the profound significance of clay—a material he believes grounds us and allows us to “think and to feel through making”. He reveals how his need to “make a mess” in his garden shed shaped his early work and how his celebrated works, like the sculpture that sits on top of the Roundhouse, are rooted in the place, community, and history where they stand.
Poet, novelist, Playwright and former Young People’s Laureate for London, Cecilia Knapp, joins Roundhouse CEO and Artistic Director Marcus Davey to explore the power of authentic human stories and how not to overthink a poem.