Join us for an evening of Reimagining at 215 Mare Street, part of London Festival of Architecture 2024. Working with our London Studio neighbours KLH Sustainability, we are delivering an interactive workshop as part of LFA’s Studio Lates events on Thursday 13th June from 5.30pm.

https://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/event/home-of-ideas/ 

We will create a community portrait of Mare Street using the Doughnut Unrolled tool. KLH Sustainability and New Practice will support participants in looking at the neighbourhood around Morris+Company’s ‘Home of Ideas’ office through this lens, leading a discussion on Doughnut Economics, its relevance to urban environments and placemaking, and how it could shape ideas for change in the area.

The Doughnut Economics principles aim to make our cities better for both people and planet. The focus is on improving Mare Street by considering how it can benefit both the environment and the local community. The workshop is organised around four key questions:

• How can Mare Street be good for nature, like nearby wild land? (local ecological)

• How can Mare Street help to keep our whole planet healthy? (global ecological)

• How can Mare Street make life better for the people who live here? (local social)

• How can Mare Street be good for everyone, no matter where they’re from? (global social)

A series of question prompts and printed tools will help to spark ideas and structure conversations. The facilitators will capture these ideas on post-it notes and whiteboard, ultimately creating a vision for a more sustainable and socially vibrant future for Mare Street. 

A free place can be registered on the London Festival of Architecture website.

Photograph: Jack Hobhouse. Image courtesy of Morris+Company.