Be part of conversation and change with Transition by Design in a workshop exploring ways to tackle housing needs.
This will include a screening of a documentary called ‘Nubia Way: A Story of Black-Led Self Building in Lewisham‘ and a short film showcasing their ‘Homemaker’ project. This will be followed by a discussion on community-led ways to tackle housing needs in the UK and Oxford, as well as the topics of intergenerational wealth, discrimination and race. There will be child-friendly activities, so bring along the whole family!
Location: The Clarendon Centre (enter via Cornmarket Street or Shoe Lane).
Time: 11am – 1pm, Drop in.
All Ages.
Transition by Design are a RIBA chartered and Passivhaus certified architecture and design cooperative based in Oxford. They specialise in ecological architecture, community engagement, citizen-led and participatory design, action research, meanwhile use, and community-led housing.
This workshop is part of out summer offsite programme Situated Ecologies: Create With Us.
For access concerns or questions please contact creativelearning@modernartoxford.org.uk.
Nubia Way was built in the 1990s by Fusions Jameen, London’s first black housing co-operative in Downham, Lewisham. Constructed using the principles of Walter Segal, self-builders were offered long-term discounted rents in return for building the homes. Through interviews with the original self-builders, historians, architects and economists, this new documentary from the Architecture Foundation celebrates the legacy of Nubia Way and examines self-building as an act of resistance against the housing discrimination faced by Black British Communities.