RE:CLAIMED, 2022

CONCEPT: a community forum/ heritage object in Barking, East London 

 In this project I framed melted plastic waste excavated from Barking's super-diverse high street as a form of glocal heritage and  potential building material within the context of  large-scale demolition and regeneration.  Throughout this project I was concerned with how ethnically diverse urban environments such as Barking can often form the blueprint for contemporary culture on a wider scale, such as fashion, tv and music, but increasingly, in the aim to create prosperous cities their nuanced complexity is often flattened and commodified.

I used discourse on heritage, cultural production and participatory design to reconcile minority groups in this part of London with  more rigid over-arching expressions of British heritage.