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Meanwhile Communities Network: Detecting and strengthening local communities through temporary re-use of vacant facilities in London
– Israel Hurtado Cola
Meanwhile Communities Network explores the creation of a participatory digital platform that will automatically generate a live recording of vacant properties with potential to become meanwhile civic spaces.
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A few words from our guest editor
Maria Tzika
A forest feeds itself, a perfect example of a circular economy. Life itself maintains the conditions for life. In gratitude, I tiptoe so as not to disturb it too much.
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Beauty and the beast: Confronting contrasting perceptions of nature through design
– Siân Moxon
Nature elicits potent, contrasting emotions in us, from love and awe to fear and loss of control. As we become increasingly urbanised, we are distancing ourselves from wildness…
– from Artemis Papachristou, London, 26.05.2020"/>
Z/Room Society
– from Artemis Papachristou, London, 26.05.2020
This image is a “still” of the first step of the quarantine period. The anxiety of the unexpected state of suddenly being alone, forced to be inert…
– Yorgos Garofalakis, Alexander Alexiou and Daphne Delfaki"/>
Understanding urban density: How a bespoke densification model can unlock London’s future growth
– Yorgos Garofalakis, Alexander Alexiou and Daphne Delfaki
Treated not as an enabler of monolithic high-rises but as a tool for bespoke, balanced and safe placemaking…
– Christopher Adan"/>
The street market as animated space: an ethnographic exercise
– Christopher Adan
Sayed wears a red windbreaker and looks me straight in the eyes. His stall is replete with duvet covers, pillows and mattress foam. Originally from…
‘Gentritourism’ and the subculture of visitors emerged from it
– Cristina Roxana Lazar and Elisa Diogo Andrade Silva
Tourism nowadays has become an industry that is increasingly influencing the way in which cities are planned and especially the direction towards w…
– The Virginia Woolf Pack"/>
Postcards of Bloomsbury
– The Virginia Woolf Pack
“The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?” These words, from Virgi…
– Rab Harling"/>
Balfron Tower: the artwash of an icon
– Rab Harling
It was with great excitement and optimism when in late 2010, at the cusp of attaining my MA in Photography from the London College of Communication…
Spaces of care and spaces of insecurity: homelessness and precarity at a north London night shelter and beyond
– Ruth Ellenby
“I’m feeling like a bit of a regular now – the briefing – great news that Rodney (1) has been given accommodation by the council! – sad not to see …
– Isabella Rossen"/>
Olympic gentrification? Hackney Wick, London: from petrol refining to showcasing arts
– Isabella Rossen
The past few years, Hackney Wick has transformed from a peripheral derelict industrial area into a new creative urban centre. Located on the fringe…
– Anna Attademo"/>
The meaning of limits in a limitless city
– Anna Attademo
Contemporary cities grow in space and time, every day struggling competitively against others, crossing spatial and conceptual limits: in the conte…
– Aigars Lauzis"/>
The Island
– Aigars Lauzis
The project was conceived as a M.Arch Urban Design thesis at The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), London, 2009. Being located at the confluen…
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Hidden Borough
– Guerilla Architects
In everyday life, city residents adopt and transform urban spaces for their own use. An individual subconsciously invents tactics, invisibly transf…
Phantom Railings
– Catalina Pollak
Phantom Railings (2012–2014) is an interactive public artwork that uses sound to highlight the absence of railings from a Bloomsbury garden squ…
– Rab Harling"/>
A delicate sense of terror
– Rab Harling
Between February 2011 & February 2014, I was a resident of Ernö Goldfinger’s brutalist icon Balfron Tower in Tower Hamlets. Throughout this period,…
– Felipe Lanuza"/>
Palimpsests of light: the absence of the Heygate Estate
– Felipe Lanuza
Projected in the late 1960s and built between 1970 and 1974, the Heygate Estate was a product of the late phase of urban and architectural modernis…
The Westway: four decades of community activism
– CivicWise
A walk along the Westway, the largest elevated urban highway in Europe, located is West London. The area below and around the Westway has witne…