@glastofest you have my heart forever and ever. what a joy to be on Worthy Farm for a beautiful weekend of leftist thought and dreaming along with incredible expressions of solidarity with Palestine through music and contemporary arts ❤️✊🏾
We are delighted to have made the longlist of the Davidson Prize 2025!
Our proposal WearWork seeks to reinvent industrial heartlands as self-sustaining, self-building neighbourhoods arranged around convivial yards.
WearWork proposes a new model of housing production, embedding mass material manufacturing within communities. On disused land along the River Wear, waste is transformed at scale into high-quality building components, creating an economy that values labour and time over capital. Industries invest directly in the housing and livelihoods of their workforce, funding the production of both materials and homes. These homes are held in a worker-owned trust, ensuring long-term affordability and community stewardship. Residents shape their homes, gaining equity through time and effort rather than traditional finance.
450 live/work homes, public workshops, and studios form a self-sustaining neighbourhood, arranged around convivial yards - crucibles for industry and social life. Taking cues from vernacular bastle houses and Wearside maisonettes, homes become sites of experimentation and innovation, feeding into a circular economy where feedback refines materials and design over time.
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BETTY OWOO
Betty Owoo is a Croydon-based spatial designer and writer interested in the potential of public service, policy and culture to shape urban environments for the better. She is currently a Senior Design Officer at the Greater London Authority’s Design Unit, working to promote quality and inclusion in the built environment through policy and development management. She is also a founding member of PATCH, a multidisciplinary group that uses writing as a springboard to create spatial interventions and design ephemeral events. She previously worked as an architectural designer at Be First London, where she facilitated the development of responsive urban and architectural visions and strategies to deliver social housing across a range of sites in Barking & Dagenham, and is a former co-chair of the Architecture Foundation Young Trustees.
Trained in architecture, she is energised by urban landscapes, and curious about the intersection between architecture and ecology in the city. Her practice centres around championing underrepresented groups in the public realm. She has written for Dezeen, the Architectural Review, the Architects Journal, Design Council, and Urban Design Group Journal. She was named as a Rising Star by the RIBA Journal in 2022 and currently sits on New London Architecture’s NextGen panel.
@bettsbubbles
Tom & Betty are one of the sweetest couples I’ve ever photographed! I got to know them last year when I shot their proposal in Whitstable and they became Husband and Wife yesterday in London at Inspire Saint James Church and then had their reception in the Crypt underneath. Their speeches to each other were incredibly heartfelt and pretty much everyone in the room was crying. The food was amazing too (I need more Ghanaian Bofrots in my life!) Huge congrats Tom & Betty! May your marriage be as joyful and loving as your wedding day!
Bride @bettsbubbles
Groom @thomaslevy6
Reception Venue @cryptonthegreen
Ceremony Venue @inspiresaintjames
Second Photographer @Charlottebradleyphoto
Prep @thezetterhotels
Caterer @funthymefood
DJ @sohodiscoevents
Flowers @emmybloom.ldn
Dress @orireofficial
Shoes @reformation
Bridal Hair @braids_byladya
Cake @jenscakery
Suit @suitsupply
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Idk about anyone else, but I've had a somewhat fraught relationship with this app and this space over the last few months. Still processing and wondering what role it can have outside of amplifying causes that are important through stories. Why are we here?
I guess though sometimes it is nice to share the simple joys of life - like seeing a young apple tree near my house bear fruit for the first time 🌱☀️
a wee plug for a workshop I am running @turfprojects this sunny sunday as part of their Desire Paths season of projects and events! come through if you are around and interested in imagining alternative green futures for neglected urban spaces 🌱
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This fun, hands-on workshop invites participants to draw on their own experiences of Croydon Town Centre and to share their hopes and ideas for its underutilised spaces through the acts of collaging and mapping. Looking at sites at different scales and perspectives, participants are invited to formulate speculative responses about their futures 💭
The workshop will involve a site walk to Reeves Corner and plenty of time for cutting, sticking, dreaming and sharing back at Turf Projects!
Link to free tickets for the workshop in my bio 💫
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This workshop is part of Turf Projects’ latest commission Desire Paths as part of London Borough of Culture 2023. My project “Periphery Greens” is about the potential of underutilised and unloved sites in Croydon Town Centre, and how we can use storytelling and fiction to be propositional and speculative about creating green focused futures for these sites.
more to share in the coming weeks as this project progresses 🌿✨
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