LEARNING
| Suzanne Lacy: ‘Between the Door and the Street’ |
| Between the Door and the Street grew out of a series of wide-ranging conversations between Lacy and a group of activist women in New York City, held over the course of five months. |
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| Social Housing,Housing the Social: Actors, Agents and Spatial Justice |
| A project exploring how ‘housing provides essential shelter, but also gives form to the social’. |
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| Mxenge Housing project |
| ‘The history of the Victoria Mxenge Housing Association, from its start as a development organisation to its evolution into a social movement and then as a service provider.’ |
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Originally mums from the hostel Focus E15 who faced eviction and being rehoused out of London. Campaigning for the repopulation of the Carpenters Estate. “Social housing not social cleansing”. |
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West Ken Gibbs Green Community Homes – “The Peoples Estates” (LB Hammersmith & Fulham) |
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5 year campaign by residents to stop the demolition of 760 homes on the West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates and work towards community ownership under the Right to Transfer |
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Save Our Sutton – The Sutton Estate (Affinity Sutton, RB Kensington & Chelsea) |
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Residents campaign to stop the destruction of the historic William Sutton Estate and its replacement with 144 fewer affordable homes and 106 private flats |
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Newera4all – The New Era Estate (Dolphin Square Foundation, LB Hackney) |
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Tenants of New Era Estate fighting against massive rent increases that would have seen them made homeless. Successfully campaigned against Westbrook Finance and now the estate is owned by the Dolphin Square Foundation |
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| Local people opposing and writing about the regeneration and gentrification of North Southwark that’s happened over the last 20 years (In particular, Heygate, Estate, Aylesbury Estate and the Elephant & Castle redevelopment) |
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Save Cressingham – The Cressingham Gardens Estate (LB Lambeth) |
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Residents opposed to Lambeth Council “regeneration” plans to demolish and replace the estate rather than repairing it. |
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Campaign group of residents across tenures who are being forced out of their homes and community and want the original promises of “regeneration” fulfilled |
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Nimble Spaces explores how we share, shape and design our homes and living spaces. Nimble Spaces is an enabling design process that supports adults with a disability to work creatively with artists and architects through design collaborations and workshops. |
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Sweets Way evictions: building community in resistance |
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| Creative Refuge |
| ‘Creative Refuge brings forward the experience of three workshops working with children at Beit Atfal Assomoud , Burj El Barajne Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon.’ |
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| Community-Based Arts Organisations – A New Centre of Gravity |
| Overview of arts and culture projects working in ‘partnerships that cross silos and sectors to connect art organically with other areas such as health, community development, humanities, and social justice. They are multilingual in more ways than just language, and their social networks run broad and deep’. |
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Here we list a range of references and links to like-minded projects across the UK and beyond. This is a space for shared learning and diverse methods currently being explored or already tried and tested.
Some projects are based nearby in London or in different locations across the UK. Others – both current and past – are based in Europe. A number of projects are international.
The projects range in approach and scale: from community and resident-led initiatives dealing with day-to-day practical and governance concerns; to arts and culture projects working in collaboration with housing estates and associations, together with long-term initiatives that have clearly broken the mold with new ways of thinking and doing community-led activism and living with diversity.