Edward Hollis is Professor of Interior Design, and Director of Research at Edinburgh College of Art. Trained as an architect, Edward's research interests include the ethics and aesthetics of building re-use and creative writing. His books of stories The Secret Lives of Buildings and The Memory Palace: a Book of Lost Interiors were both nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize for literary non-fiction. He is currently working with ‘The Invisible College’ on the renewal of one of Scotland’s most controversial ruins, the remains of St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross, Argyll.