I’m pleased to announce my new project ‘Place-making and the Rivers of Lewisham’. Since working on the Sounding the River Quaggy project, this is a subject that I’ve been itching to go back to. This new project is a year long and is funded by the Goldsmiths Strategic Research Fund. It will see Louise Rondel and I working in partnership with river groups including Friends of the River Pool, Quaggy waterways Action Group and Waterlink way of Life to probe three questions:

How are Lewisham’s rivers constructed, drawn upon, included or excluded in plans for regeneration and development in the borough? How are the rivers practised and imagined by those who live by them, care for them, and spend time alongside and in them? And what are the synergies, conflicts and potential opportunities that arise from these different kinds of place-making on the rivers?

You can read about what we have been up to thus far and more about our plans here

Image: Waterline by Oliver Barratt, photographed by Emma Jackson July 2023.