- The Changing Face of Peckham with Ria Addison Gayle, artist and yr. 9 fine art students
- Debate cake with Nadira Ali and other yr13 Geographers
- Debate cake with Ahamed Mansarey at the Launch event with students from Harris Girls Academy East Dulwich and the public
These workshops cut to the heart of the Hairytage project, discussing the effects of gentrification on the local community.
Gentrification: the manipulation of a place, ear marked for regeneration;
People made to move on.
After immigration saw communities made, forced migration now pulls it apart.
Costa has moved in, but what is the cost?
It’s a complex situation, as history tells us, communities shift, they are fluid.
What was once a white working class community, shifted to include people that sailed from around the British colonies.
Diversity reigned. Food, smells, colours, music, hair, entwined in what we know as Peckham today.
Places change, buildings go up; buildings come down.
People move through, but all leave their mark.
But what did we learn through these workshops, through conversations about the changing face of SE15?
The issues are complex, there isn’t one side or another, there isn’t simply good or bad.
Pro’s and cons can’t be split in two, or three or even four.
Rather, it is a web through which our histories and stories combine.
Webs are strong.
When people come together to share their thoughts from across classes, across genders, across cultures and across age ranges, we become empowered.
We learn that it is important to listen to each other, to collaborate.
We learn that often it isn’t by speaking that we understand but through making.
By sharing spaces with each other, words are often not needed.
By sharing space we learn that there is more that connects us than divides us.
And that is the essence of community.
That is the essence of the Hairytage project
Click below for further details of each creative exchange
Gentrification: the manipulation of a place, ear marked for regeneration;
People made to move on.
After immigration saw communities made, forced migration now pulls it apart.
Costa has moved in, but what is the cost?
It’s a complex situation, as history tells us, communities shift, they are fluid.
What was once a white working class community, shifted to include people that sailed from around the British colonies.
Diversity reigned. Food, smells, colours, music, hair, entwined in what we know as Peckham today.
Places change, buildings go up; buildings come down.
People move through, but all leave their mark.
But what did we learn through these workshops, through conversations about the changing face of SE15?
The issues are complex, there isn’t one side or another, there isn’t simply good or bad.
Pro’s and cons can’t be split in two, or three or even four.
Rather, it is a web through which our histories and stories combine.
Webs are strong.
When people come together to share their thoughts from across classes, across genders, across cultures and across age ranges, we become empowered.
We learn that it is important to listen to each other, to collaborate.
We learn that often it isn’t by speaking that we understand but through making.
By sharing spaces with each other, words are often not needed.
By sharing space we learn that there is more that connects us than divides us.
And that is the essence of community.
That is the essence of the Hairytage project
Click below for further details of each creative exchange