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Client Project Year LLDC & UP Projects
Fragments From Our Land Live

Concéntrico
The Library Garden 2026

V&A EastSahra Hersi Selects 2026
TACO!Building Stories  2026
Design Museum
A Tapestry for Anglesey 2025

Arts Catalyst
Home Making 2025

Women's Museum
Tender Women  2025

Newham CouncilSeeds of Change 2024
Cement Fields
Wayfinding To Our Memories 2024

Redbridge Council
Civic Carpet - Ilford Forever 2023

Studio Voltaire
The Garden Activity Pack 2023

Mosaic Rooms
The House of Many Ways 2022

MGC
Mountford Community Hall 2021

Company Drinks
Designing Cultural Access 2021

Deptford XDeptford X Pop-up 2021
Quentin Blake Centre       for IllustrationInspired by Nature 2020
SPACE StudiosVicarage Lane 2019
Dulwich Picture GalleryMaking an Impression 2019






Arts Catalyst HomeMaking2025

Young people from the Mountford Community Hall summer n school, 2021.


♥  Client: Mountford Growing Community
Collaboration: Rose Gibbs
♥  Year:  2021
♥  Location: London

Mountford Community Hall is an ongoing project developed in collaboration with Mountford Growing Community and artist Rose Gibbs. The project focuses on underrepresented young people within the built environment, including those from global majority and working-class backgrounds.

The work began with a Summer School and Autumn School in 2021, each running for five days on-site at Mountford Community Hall. Through workshops with young people and community consultations with residents, a design for the new hall was developed. A publication and a report to the Greater London Authority (GLA) are forthcoming. The project has been funded through crowdfunding and the Mayor of London's Spacehive scheme.

Across the project, the question of how space is used in London is held at the centre. The city is in the middle of a housing crisis, with homes unaffordable for many. While government and developers focus on building new housing, these efforts often overlook the need for community provision alongside new homes. Mountford Community Hallcritiques this approach and argues for the importance of spaces like community halls as part of how a city houses its people.

Community halls function as living rooms for the public. They are shared spaces where people gather, host events, participate in programmes, and socialise. They make room for after-school clubs, exercise classes, study spaces, coffee mornings, and the slow work of meeting your neighbours. They extend domestic space into the public realm and offer something that small living rooms cannot. The project's ambition is to ensure that the new Mountford Community Halloffers a high-quality, inclusive space for everyone, and that community infrastructure is recognised as essential alongside housing.



Participants sketching on site during the Mountford Community Hall autumn school, 2021.



Workshop participants on a site walk around the estate during the Mountford Community Hall summer school, 2021.
Workshop participants exploring materials and scale 1:1 spatial making during the Mountford Community Hall summer  school, 2021.
A workshop participant cutting components for a model during the Mountford Community Hall autumn school, 2021.
Workshop participants at Cernamic ceramics studio for a hands-on tile-making session during the Mountford Community Hall autumn school, 2021.



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