Human evolution does not roll itself out at fibre-optic speed. Quite on the contrary, we humans evolve extremely slowly with unrecognisable differences from generation to generation. Indeed many scientists across the board classify our neural structures still as a “stone-age brain”. What if it’s not so much that we are […] more »
Paint as a tool of change – by Teresa García Alcaraz
Alongside my work at Clear Village, I am a member of the LPU collective, Liga de la Partida Urbana. At LPU, we carry out urban interventions that aim to rediscover and re-invent the public space in the barrios of Caracas through multiple and diverse artistic interactions. They are intended to […] more »
Towards the crowd-sourced city vision? – by Robin Houterman
Participatory planning on the neighbourhood level has been experimented with, and in some cities established practice, for many years. Next Hamburg has taken participatory planning to the next scale, experimenting with crowd-sourcing a vision for 2030 on the city level. Since January 2013, they have been replicating the experiment in […] more »
Pressing fresh Apple Juice in Workshop 44
The London Orchard Project held 2 ‘Juicing Day’ events on Oct. 26th and Oct. 31st, offering samples to passers-by and showing Regent Estate residents the benefits of having their own community orchard. This winter, the London Orchard Project will be facilitating the planting of several small community orchards around the […] more »
November 2013
PROJECT NEWS PLACEMAKING AWARDS 2013 SHORTLISTED x2 We’re delighted to say that two of our projects have been shortlisted for the Placemaking Awards 2013, which “recognise and publicise projects, plans, people and organisations that are making places better”. Our Alley Links project was shortlisted for “public participation in planning”, while […] more »
The Workshop 44 Halloween celebration at Marlborough Square
On October 31st 2013, residents of Regent Estate in East London were invited to celebrate Halloween with the Workshop 44 (Small Works Hackney) team at Marlborough square, and to bring this odd space to life for one night. This is what happened. >> For even more terror listen to this […] more »
October 2013
PROJECT NEWS BEDFORDS PARK WALLED GARDEN HARVESTING VEGETABLES, FRUITS AND AWARDS In September, we were thrilled to receive a ‘thriving’ award in the It’s Your Neighbourhood programme run by the Royal Horticultural Society. We received 80 out of a possible 100 marks, leaving many more established gardens behind us. Having […] more »
The Walled Garden is harvesting awards
Not only are we harvesting the vegetables we sowed this late spring, we are now also harvesting awards! In September we were thrilled to receive a “thriving” award in the It’s Your Neighbourhood awards ceremony. It’s Your Neighbourhood is a grassroots community gardening campaign organised by the Royal Horticultural Society. […] more »
Walled Garden produces more than 2000 meals
In spring we signed up to Capital Growth’s million meals campaign, pledging to grow 2000 meals in the garden. Today we’ve beaten our target and have provided the equivalent of 2421 meals. This equates to 172 kilos and a rough value of £817. And we haven’t entered all our spuds […] more »