Reclaiming Regeneration: Lessons and tools for a changing London

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In a rapidly changing city, how are partnerships between communities and urban practitioners helping to rebalance power and respond to the challenges the city now faces?

Since 2014, Architecture Sans Frontières UK have been working with Citizens UK and The East London Citizens Organisation (TELCO) in response to the issues and inequalities experienced by communities in east London. Inequalities rooted in historical exclusions, exacerbated over the last decade by massive urban regeneration, and now laid bare by Covid-19. 

Taking a retrospective look beyond their own practice, the event will examine partnerships and campaigns from across London (guests listed below), taking an honest look at the successes and failures of efforts to deliver just and equitable urban change in London, and ask - how can we learn from these experiences to help us respond to challenges the city now faces?

Following presentations on the lessons learned from active partnerships/projects/campaigns across London, time will be given for speakers and guests to respond to the following questions:

- What types of collaborative partnerships/networks are needed to enact more equitable forms of regeneration in London?

- Which voices are and are not being heard at present and how can such partnerships amplify marginalised voices in these processes.

- What capacities and tools are needed for London's communities and their support networks to effect larger-scale change?

This event is relevant to anyone affected by, working or interested in urban development and regeneration in London. Integral to this discussion is how the Covid-19 crisis has affected the communities, groups, campaigns and partnerships we are all a part of, and what role these structures have in responding to the needs and challenges we now face.

This event will be held on Zoom. Login details will be sent after registration.

We look forward to seeing you there!

ASF-UK

**UPDATE: GUEST SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED**

We are pleased to welcome a fantastic list of respondents that will be contributing to the discussion:

-Pablo Sendra, lecturer at The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, co-author of the recent publication 'Community-led Regeneration'

-Geraldine Dening, co-founder and Director of Architects for Social Housing (ASH), a qualified architect with her own practice based in London, and a senior lecturer. She is lead architect for ASH’s architectural alternatives to demolition of estates such as Central Hill Estate and West Kensington and Gibbs Green and is currently working with a number of Housing Co-operatives to explore new forms of community-led development.

-Akil Scafe-Smith of RESOLVE Collective. RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. They have delivered numerous projects, workshops, publications, and talks in the UK and across Europe, all of which look toward realising just and equitable visions of change in our built environment.

-Sib Trigg, architect and community organiser. Their practice revolves around developing and sharing knowledge in ways which examine issues of relational power and increase community agency, primarily around housing in London. Sib is currently working with PEACH in Custom House, using collaborative practices to explore the roles of data and information in planning and regeneration.

-Clare Richards, architect and award-winning documentary filmmaker, founded ft’work in 2016 to promote thriving communities and ensure that clear social principles underpin development. A not for profit, ft’work collaborates at local level to support projects and initiate ideas whilst, at national level, working to encourage best practice and debate policy change.

-Barbara Lipietz, director DPU MSc Urban Development Planning.www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/dpu