19 – 23 May 2013
Clapton park estates, the River Lea and the Hackney Marshes
Nye Bevan commons served the host space for events and workshops for EU participants of Unigrowcity, a pan European exchange of sustainables practices. This imagined geography is a real geography with latent potential. As a reminder, the exchanges of practices began the rituals by which commoners in the past would bring out the contours of its space.
Beyond the Bounds: our neighbourhoods and streets
Beating the bounds: ritual for commoners to mark the boundaries of common land that guaranteed their rights of access.
Beyond the bounds: the commons imaginary extends beyond the spaces designated as Commons along the tributaries of our streets, waterways, and neighbourhoods.
Rivers and canals:
our waterways in the Commons imaginary
Realities on living on water: community building on the waterways, ecological footprint of narrowboat living, rights of access and legal frameworks and the revolving doors of our waterways management.
The Commons in the shadow of the Olympics
Our spaces in a post Olympics London: getting in the way.
Re-branding the nature reserves, growing spaces, urban woodlands, playing fields, towpaths.
The changing landscapes of East London: the promise and spectre of wholesale change./p>
Commons in the community : Community in the commons
Post welfare urban space and new forms of active citizenship
Public sector housing and gentrification. The localism bill and the reshaping of the high street.
The waterways as Commons: Regent and Hertford canals with Bernard and the Laburnum Boat Club
Remake of the 21st century Commons: with Mark Walton of Shared Assets
The changing realities of neighbourhood:
a personal perspective from Councillor Saleem Siddique
