Architecture can help build local communities. These are events which respond to the need to act in and with the local area and communities.
Press Highlights
24 June 2022
Susan Okokon, EXCAVATING DIVERSITY, Sponsored by MAIL BOXES ETC Streatham, and CRESSINGHAM GARDENS, Resident Management Community Interest Company. | Exhibitions
EXHIBITION & PROGRAMME “A MODERNIST GEM”: THE BATTLE TO SAVE LEIGHAM COURT SHELTERED HOUSING SCHEME - Friday 24th June, 5pm…
Curator Picks
18 June 2022
Levitt Bernstein and NOOMA Studio | Installations
As we emerge from Covid-19, please join Levitt Bernstein and NOOMA in opening our studios in Thane Works, Finsbury Park…
24 June - 12 August
This EXHIBITION and the community which inspired it, embodies this year's London Festival of Architecture’s theme: ACT! “A MODERNIST GEM”…
28 June 2022
Somers Town Museum - A Space for us | Talks and Debates
A Space for us? Space is unequal - wealthier areas have more green space and are more likely to be…
03 June - 24 June
Somers Town Museum - A Space for us | Film Screenings
Join us for a series of curated film nights, every Friday in the month of June and watch unseen footage…
30 June 2022
Susan Okokon, EXCAVATING DIVERSITY, Sponsored by MAIL BOXES ETC Streatham, and CRESSINGHAM GARDENS, Resident Management Community Interest Company. | Film Screenings
ACTION ON FILM: UTOPIA LONDON Award-winning film classic UTOPIA LONDON (2010), will have its London Festival of Architecture premier, as…
25 June 2022
Susan Okokon, EXCAVATING DIVERSITY, Sponsored by MAIL BOXES ETC Streatham, and CRESSINGHAM GARDENS, Resident Management Community Interest Company. | Walks and Tours
AN ARCHITECTURAL TOUR of Macintosh Court Sheltered Housing Scheme, formerly named Leigham Court, Lambeth's first ‘Listed’, purpose built modernist sheltered…
10 June 2022
Somers Town Museum - A Space for us | Walks and Tours
On Cranleigh Street George Padmore lived and led anti colonial struggles. He was part of a network that stretched across…
11 June 2022
Building Centre | Walks and Tours
Join the curators of The Garden of Privatised Delights, the 2021 British Pavilion now on display at The Building Centre,…
08 June - 29 June
Camden Town Unlimited | Exhibitions
What do you see in Camden's future? How do we create neighbourhoods and high streets that make every day life…
26 June 2022
Camden Council - Camley Street | Family Events
Come along to the Camley Street festival, by the railway underpass, on Sunday 26th June. The Camley Street Festival is…
23 June 2022
Global Generation | Talks and Debates
Talk and Q&A exploring how Global Generation have worked with the local community to create educational and active gardens in…
20 June - 30 June
Camden Council - Camley Street | Installations
Connecting Camley Street is an art installation designed by local young people, including Maiden Lane Estate's Friday night “10-teens" youth…
01 July 2022
tp bennett | Studio Lates
Join a community cookery class run by tp bennett and Cook for Good, a social enterprise with a mission to…
12 June 2022
Genéa Saunders | Walks and Tours
Dear London is a promenade performance set within Corbett Estate in south-east London. Visitors follow estate developer Archibald Corbett to…
16 June 2022
ADP | Talks and Debates
ADP Architecture is hosting a panel discussion exploring how education and health services, community groups, and property owners can act…
Building Centre | Talks and Debates
From Venice to London, to around the world! We will be hosting a hybrid discussion with the Curators Collective to…
14 June 2022
daab design Architects | Conferences
How can London efficiently densify? This panel discussion uncovers the opportunities industrial land presents for creating new, resilient, sustainable communities,…
05 July - 26 July
London Festival of Architecture | Audio and video projects
Following on from our ‘Power Podcasts’ series, for LFA2022 we're sharing five new stories, exploring the key people and projects…
08 June 2022
Maggie Baddeley | Walks and Tours
This two-hour walking tour focuses on the masterplanning of Kings Cross Central that began at the end of the 20th…
Paul Lincoln | Walks and Tours
MELTING CITY - debating how the City of London and businesses in the Square Mile are acting on retrofit* and…
A guided tour showing the comprehensive vision architects had for the Grade 2 Listed Modernist Social housing Ossulston Estate, with…
04 June - 25 June
Somers Town Museum - A Space for us | Family Events
ACT! - play your part in re-making history in a working class area of Somers Town. Join us in decolonising…
15 June 2022
ING Media | Talks and Debates
Whether developing housing on a brownfield site or retrofitting workspaces, building communities that last - and lifting up existing ones…
Somers Town Museum - A Space for us | Workshops
Create your own activist designs in these radical screen-printing workshops. Be inspired by the local tradition of activism – Ossulston…
17 June - 30 June
Velorose | Exhibitions
For May Day 2022, Golden Lane and Barbican Estate residents collaborated to stage a community event (curator: Bev Bytheway), and…
ACT! Social Justice walks in your lunchtime. Take a walk along radical routes - every Wednesday. Feminist walk takes in…
London Borough of Camden | Exhibitions
Join us as we figure out what needs to happen in Somers Town neighbourhood so it becomes an exemplar sustainable…
London Borough of Camden | Audio and video projects Performances
A live music and visual event to celebrate the album of sound and images by artists Steffi Klenz, Brownsilla and…
20 July - 26 July
A walk with a purpose - to record working class 'Art in everyday life' the unique remaining St Pancras social…
01 June - 01 July
Building Centre | Exhibitions
Taking inspiration from Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, the exhibition explores the UK’s privatised public…
Somers Town is flat. Yet in its midst lies a remarkable group of housing which carries the flavour of an…
22 June 2022
Hackney Tours | Walks and Tours
How did a certain sporting event (with a trademarked name) in 2012 change Hackney Wick? Hackney Tours (walking artist Simon…
01 June 2022
