PROJECTS
PLANT ROOM, London
Grow bags, London
Kitchen, Kew
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



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Growing on Hoxton Square and Store Street


How might we meet the demand for ‘GROW-YOUR-OWN’ within dense urban areas where available land is scarce?
What if:projects promote the use of vacant, neglected and undefined spaces in the inner city of London for the production of FOOD.
As part of the London Festival for Architecture 20.6.-20.7.08 the What if team placed GROW BAG INSTALLATIONS on Hoxton Square and Store Street. A moving GROW BAG will roam cheapside on the 19.7.08 as part of the Cheapside market.

Funding:LFA, London Development Agency, London Food Link, Groundwork East London
Support: William Ardovini, Jessica Bernado, Ian Burgess, Gianpaolo Fransceschini, Billy Valencio

Can city dwellers be more self-sufficient?
Times, 28.06.08

Bagging a bumper crop
Monday, June 23, 2008

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A VACANT LOT- What if you make it accessible, add 70 big grow bags of soil, one water tower plus the participation and creativity of local residents? To find out more visit OS grid reference tq3382nw tq3282ne. Read more

2.7.2008
VACANT LOT BBQ
5.30pm

29.5.2008
VACANT LOT on BBC 1 Regional News WATCH
1.30pm and 6.30pm

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.

VACANT Shoreditch: ongoing
Exhibition promoting the use of vacant, neglected and undefined spaces in the inner city of London for the growing of vegetables.


20.06. - 20.07.2008
VACANT LOT is 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

PLANT ROOM
East Road Community Garden
Commission: Shoreditch Trust
A ROOM FOR PLANTING AND SOCIALISING
This summer 200 terracotta pots are being allocated to 50 local residents for growing flowers and herbs. Pots are placed in shelves that enclose the space.

OUT-POST
The project OUT-POST celebrates the diverse cultures of Toxteth and creates a public platform for local communities during the Capital of Culture year. Suggestive of the cities industrial past a shipping container is being transformed into an art space and placed on vacant sites in the Dingle, along Granby Street and Lodge Lane. This new platform provides space for the expression and exposure of local cultures and becomes the hub for a programme of activities and events during 2008.
16.11.07 - 09.12.07 Park St., Dingle
10.12.07 - 18.02.08 Lodge Lane
19. 02.08 - ongoing Granby Street

For locations and programme refer to:
www.out-post.info

SIT IN Noel Street Green, Toxteth, Liverpool.
at SITE Gallery, Liverpool 14 Nov. 2007 - 20 Jan. 2008

SIT IN at IDENSITAT 07 - documentary projects, Spain

23.11.07 SIT IN presentation
at Santa Monica arts centre, in Barcelona

22.02.-30.03.08 SIT IN exhibition in Mataró, Spain

"COW THE UDDER WAY" exhibited as part of the touring exhibition SHRINKING CITIES:
NEW YORK ________8 Dec. 2006 - 21 Jan. 2007 read more
DETROIT __________3 Feb - 1 April 2007 read more
CLEVELAND,OHIO__20 April - 8 June 2007 read more
LIVERPOOL/
MANCHESTER _____14 Nov. 2007 - 20 Jan. 2008 read more
DUISBURG ________27 Feb. - 11.May 2008 read more

More info: www.theudderway.info

GREEN ROOFS: It is anticipated that green roofs will be a pragmatic and often the only means of adapting the urban fabric especially in central London, to climate change.