Project description
The project seeks to test the limits of participation in the production of the built environment. It challenges the current mode of design practice and instead proposes strategies to integrate collective knowledge and participation throughout the lifespan of a building, from strategic brief definition all the way to post occupation and maintenance. The project champions the notion of embodied knowledge, a term used in this context to describe knowledge that comes from the lived experience of local communities. The term also references vernacular methods of operation and draws on practices of communal building and collective repair. Set in the heart of Hackney, the project reimagines the development of 55 Morning Lane, drawing on the existing consultation carried out by the group Morning Lane People’s Place. The project proposes an alternative development for the site and suggests how this could be created with the involvement of Hackney residents.
Engagement Process Drawing
Inside a Living Room
The Covered Market
A View from the Courtyard
Contact
jahba@hotmail.co.uk