PROJECTS
OUT-POST,
Liverpool
VACANT LOT,London
SIT IN, Liverpool
HATFIELD, Slough
The Travelling Shed, Surrey
Mobile stage
Bermondsey Square, London
Cow the udder way,
Liverpool
Facing East, London
Roof garden, London
Haus, Germany
Produce, London
TEACHING/RESEARCH
Places
of uncertainty, Liverpool
Placed in Beckton, London
Places of uncertainty, Sheffield
Modesty Screened, London
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.
PROGRAMME 2008
16.5.2008
VACANT LOT on BBC 2 Gardeners
World
8-9pm
01.05. - 21.06.2008
VACANT LOT will be part of the Love
London Festival
Love London is London’s greenest
annual festival, celebrating projects and organisations that are making
a real contribution to creating a more sustainable capital.
During
the festival the garden is open to the public: Saturday/Sunday 11am-4pm
VACANT Shoreditch: Saturday/Sunday 11am-4pm Exhibition promoting
the use of vacant, neglected and undefined spaces in the inner city of
London for the growing of vegetables.
GROW YOUR OWN: 21.06.08 from 12pm – 5pm
Get your free VACANT LOT pot and get started!
20.06. - 20.07.2008
VACANT LOT will be part of the London
Festival of Architecture
The festival showcases innovative
growing opportunities, debate and discussions about the development of
Londons infrastructure in relation to food, the future of its markets
and issues concerning food distribution and urban agriculture.
Watch short film by Elin Moe: WHAT IF
VACANT LOT December 2007
VACANT
LOT May 2008
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