made without
permission
Opening Thursday 12 September
13 - 22 September 2024
Weds - Sun | 12-6pm
Staffordshire St presents Made Without Permission, curated by bafalw as part of London Design Festival 2024.
Throughout our lives we’re negotiating and interacting with spaces. Not just physically, but also on a cultural and emotional level. In a place like London, ideas of community are traditionally presented through places that are granted to us or we’re given limited access to. But what about the spaces we make for ourselves? The ones sitting on the edge of what is allowed and permitted? What are the approaches, adaptations or small acts we make to create a sense of ownership and belonging within the environments we navigate?
Made Without Permission celebrates a language of intervening in our shared spaces by ‘making it ourselves’ – greatly influenced by the different diasporas and communities that come together in our city.
Bringing together the work and practice of designers, collectives, artists, groups and individuals alongside day-to-day rituals and everyday moments the ground floor Staffordshire St will be 'occupied’. Over the course of the festival it will act as an active space to discover, relax and enjoy along with a range of different workshops and events.
Bamidele Awoyemi, Farouk Agoro & Livia Wang (bafalw):
“We are a collective of designers, artists and curators that have an ambition to collaborate with different groups, specialists, and communities in the projects we do. While still sharing backgrounds in architecture, our work crosses into other disciplines of art, film, exhibition design, education, programming, curation, writing and collective acts/practices.”
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EVENTS
Made Without Permission: Opening | STST presents
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Join us for the opening of Made Without Permission. Celebrating a language of intervening in our shared spaces by ‘making it ourselves’. Part of London Design Festival 2024.
Thursday 12 September | 6 – 9pm
Free
Make a Seat. Take a seat. | workshop
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What’s an exhibition without somewhere to sit? Join us for an afternoon of collectively making a series of simple stools and seating to be used in the space for the rest of the exhibition.
Saturday 14 September | 2 – 5pm
Free, sign up here
Fabric Play | workshop
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An afternoon of pattern making and block printing onto fabric with a selection of materials and shapes that were used to design and build the displays of the exhibition. Afterwards, the fabrics will be installed in the space to become part of the exhibition.
Sunday 15 September | 2 – 5pm
Free, sign up here
Memories for the Future: Social Architecture | symposium
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Peckham Platform curates an intimate symposium that delves into the connections between architectural and urban design, social policy, and the experiences of the UK’s post-war working class and Black diasporic communities.
Tuesday 17 September | 12:30 – 6pm
Free, book here
Film Club x Brixton Community Cinema presents Under Your Nose
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​​Brixton Community Cinema is a pop-up cinema, intended to bring affordable film to communities who face uneven access to arts institutions. They will be showing Under Your Nose by Veronica McKenzie, a documentary about the activists behind Peckham's Black Lesbian and Gay Centre in the 1980s.
Wednesday 18 September | 7pm – late
PWYC, book here
All Together Now! | STST Presents
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A day of workshops, food and a chance to meet other members of our local community and beyond. Includes curator tours, poster and pattern making workshops and yummy eats by Mean Green Foods.
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Saturday 21 September | 12 – 6pm
Free, sign up here
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