The Makeshift City, with public works (2013-14)

Shortly after colaborating with Hilary Powell in The Art of Dissent and co-curating Juxtaposition with Daren Ellis, I started working with the art & architecture collective public works in a series of projects examining DIY spaces and the politics of re-use in Hackney Wick. At the time, I was the editor of the art/community newspaper The Wick, and our first collaboration was a poster/diagram showing the inventive self-build methods that sustained Frontside Gardens skatepark.

We reflected on these and other forms of “minor urbanism” and commoning in our contribution to Planning for Protest, an exhibition and a publication part of the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

The relationship between the production of space and the circulation of knowledge was central to public works’ book Beyond Received Wisdom: An Anthology of Experiments in Household Knowledge, for which I wrote the introduction.

Finally, we worked together on The Makeshift City, a tour of the self-built and self-managed spaces of Hackney Wick and Fish Island, followed by a public discussion and a zine-style publication (Wick Zine #5).

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