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PROJECTS
GREENING
ROMFORD RING ROAD, London
FOOD FACTORIES, London
PLANT ROOM, London
EXTENSION, London
OUT-POST, Liverpool
VACANT LOT,London
SIT IN, Liverpool
HATFIELD, Slough
THE TRAVELLING SHED, Surrey
MOBILE STAGE
BERMONDSEY SQUARE, London
SHRINKING CITIES,
Liverpool
FACING EAST, London
ROOF GARDEN, London
REFURB, Germany
PRODUCE, London
TEACHING/RESEARCH
FACING
EAST, Tower Hamlets, London
SUBVERTING THE REAL, Portsmouth
PLUG IN, Liverpool
PLACES OF UNCERTAINTY,
Liverpool
PLACED IN BECKTON, London
PLACES OF UNCERTAINTY, Sheffield
MODESTY SCREENED, London
INFORMATION
CONTACT
PROFILE
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VACANT
LOT
Location: Chart Street, London N1

A SOLUTION TO INNER
CITY LIVING?
How might you meet the demand for ‘grow-your-own’ within dense
urban areas where available land is scarce?
What-if: projects together with local residents of an inner city housing
estate in Shoreditch have come up with a novel solution:
GROW YOUR GREENS IN A BAG.
A formerly inaccessible
and run-down plot of housing estate land has been transformed into a beautiful
oasis of green. Seventy 1/2 tonne bags of soil have been arranged to form
an allotment space. Within their individual plots, local residents are
carefully tending a spectacular array of vegetables, salads, fruit and
flowers. A new sense of community has emerged.
On 12. July local resident Maxwell Hutchinson, the radio presenter and
former president of the RIBA opened this new inner city allotment together
with the Speaker of Hackney Cllr Faizullah Khan.


Watch short film by
Elin Moe:
WHAT
IF
VACANT LOT ARCHIVE
NEW VACANT
LOT GARDENS:
The Vacant Lot allotment garden in Shoreditch has become
a model for further community allotment schemes.
LANDSBURY
ESTATE
Location: Poplar,
Tower Hamlets, London
Realised by Landsbury
Estate Garden Club with Groundwork East London in August 2008. Read
more

READ:
Can
city dwellers be more self-sufficient?
Times,
28.06.08
Bagging
a bumper crop
Metro, Monday, June 23, 2008
Spacecraft
2
More Fleeting Architecture and Hideouts
Vacant Lot features on page 93
Funding and support:
VACANT
LOT is a commission by Shoreditch Trust and funded by
the Arts Council England. Shoreditch
Festival information
Charles Square and Pitfield Tenant
and Resident Association
Groundwork East London
Hackney Homes
and Hackney Council
LOVE LONDON Festival
London Festival of Architecture
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