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Community resilience: Community Building a Community Building

Talk / Panel

Global Design Forum

19 Sept 2024

Service Design, Urban Design, Education

Victoria & Albert Museum

Cromwell Road

Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre

London

SW7 2RL

#LDF24

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The speakers will address:

> Exploring the urgent need to create, repair and nurture spaces of sociality that are not driven by profit > How can community collaboration in the design of our public spaces be improved to reflect the expertise of the local residents who use and need them? > Adopting a learning by doing approach: how the Mountford Estate Community Hall Project enabled local, underrepresented young people to be introduced to architecture and design and to collaborate in the design process > Designing for human resilience: how can architecture and design address the challenges of community cohesion, physical and mental health Speakers: Sahra Hersi, Artist, Spatial Designer, Educator and co-leader of Mountford Estate Hall community Self-Build Project Arman Nouri, Artist-Educator, Co-founder and Director, Kin Structures Neba Sere, Spatial Practitioner, Director of Black Females in Architecture (BFA), co-lead of decosm collective, and Associate Professor at The Bartlett School of Architecture Rose Gibbs, Artist, Organiser, Initiator and co-leader of Mountford Growing Community Free to attend: tickets must be booked in advance using the booking link above