Community resilience: Community Building a Community Building

Global Design Forum
19 Sept 14:00 – 14:50
Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre
London
SW7 2RL
Speakers
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
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