PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGE: now at the Good Hotel (see address and map detail)

What does it mean to ‘make’ the Royal Docks and who benefits?

Royal | Docks | Works are two Saturday events celebrating and exploring current and future life in the ‘Royals’ through drop-in days that include talks by artists, activists and urban thinkers, dialogue sessions, exhibitions, local walks and free food.

These events are open to all: designed to be a mashup of ideas from different perspectives, appealing to all the senses with a little something for everyone.

10.00 | Arrival & introduction

10.30 - 11.30 | Panel 1: Making the Docks Together

Loraine Leeson, cSPACE - Art as a Tool for Social Change: the Docklands Community Poster Project and its legacy
Phil Cohen, Citizen’s Atlas - Citizen asset mapping
Graeme Sutherland, Peckham Coal Line - Community use of space

11.45 - 12.30 | Panel 1, part 2: In dialogue

12.30 - 14.30 | Community lunch and student exhibition

14.30 - 15.30 | Panel 2: Activating the Docks
Giorgio Talocci and Karen Waneska, Transforming the Royal Docks - UCL MSc Student Projects
Tom Cordell, City For sale – Documentary film
Koen Rutten, Inclusive Planning – Policy and Practice

15.45 - 16.30 | Panel 2, part 2: In dialogue

16.30 | Reflections and drinks on the Good Hotel Rooftop Garden

The Royal | Docks | Works programme for the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) 2019 examines the progressive urban process that has made and is still remaking this city edgeland, uncovering the active and hidden landscape via participatory and co creative acts of exploration, proposition and reflection. The work will look specifically at the practice of planning and design in shaping the ‘island in the east’ as a marketable asset, a city resource and shared place for fostering local economies, communities and cultures.