Field Office Workshop 01

Field Office workshops are a collaboration for founding and supporting new site-specific practices.

The first workshop, designed for teams to attend both in-person and remotely online, will be on 13-14 October 2023 in Deptford, London (UK). It is a partnership with Sayes Court (CIC), a community organisation that has been developed through local resistance to a large ongoing urban regeneration project (Convoys Wharf). Sayes Court is a place that was historically the London home to John Evelyn, the author of ground-breaking books on urban forestry (Sylva) and air pollution (Fumifugium), and it is currently being developed as a public landscape and research centre.

With contributions from Akil Scafe-Smith (Resolve Collective), Elena Luciano Suastegui (Architectural Association/RCA), Jane Mah Hutton (University of Waterloo), Ken Worpole, and Roo Angell (Sayes Court), the first workshop will explore three questions: firstly, how projects create equitable and meaningful engagements with communities; secondly, how data that is collected and generated can be made accessible to communities that are part of sites; and thirdly, how study and design of a site/project, such as Sayes Court, can be distributed across a wider area. Participants will engage actively with these questions through site-specific research and design projects.

Places are limited. Apply by 22 September 2023.