Europe’s Tallest Living Wall Rises in Hackney

http://inhabitat.com/europes-tallest-living-wall-rises-over-londons-digby-road-apartments/

Site Observations – Informal interaction with the fence

Research – Hackney Wick and The Olympic Legacy

Hackney Wick – Olympic Fringe article

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23811499-life-on-the-olympic-fringe.do

Good article on Olympic Fringe plan.

H.W. desert, “Opéra dramatique”.

by clio

Hackney Oral people’s stories…

be patient and listen,

just as you do with your gran-mama…

http://peoplesrecord.org.uk/items/show/3677?page=3

Hackney Wick, Stephen Gill

Hackney Wick, Stephen Gill

“In Hackney Wick, Stephen Gill tells several stories, the first one beginning
with a discovery. While taking photographs for the project A Book of Field
Studies, which was published in 2004, on a Sunday in January 2003, the Londoner
by choice ended up in this inhospitable place. To his surprise, Gill stumbled
upon an enormous marketplace where mountains of washing machines, video cassette
recorders, and refrigerators were being offered for sale. The desolate site made
no secret of the fact that the goods were stolen and that the immigrants and
asylum-seekers selling them were struggling to eke out a meager living. The
scene would have been an ideal stage for a critical social reportage. But Gill
observed the hustle and bustle more closely, and beyond the chaos and the noise
he noticed a fascinating spectrum of different lifestyles with a completely
separate set of laws. The Brit bought a plastic camera with a fixed lens for
fifty pence, which from that point onward he time and again aimed at the chaotic
trade center. ”

‘Invariably Eden – Stephen Gill’s Hackney Wick’
by Christoph Schaden

http://www.stephengill.co.uk/eden.html

 

Demolished, Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whitehead, Demolished

Demolished captures the destruction of tower blocks in
three different housing estates in Hackney, east London, between 1993 and 1995.
According to Whiteread, this work is ‘something that is going to be completely
forgotten… the detritus of our culture’.During the Thatcher era, Whiteread
was particularly concerned by the social and economic changes introduced by the
Conservative party, and their impact on homeless people in London. This work
operates as a metaphor for neglect and disappearance, commemorating what no
longer exists.

Design for London- Muf – research document on Hackney Wick

 

 

Muf was commissioned to produce a research document on Hackney Wick in 2009, for Design for London.

http://www.designforlondon.gov.uk/uploads/media/Creative_industries_mapping_July_2009.pdf

Flickr

should we set up a Flickr account for site images? A Flickr account can sync with wordpress to create a side menu for images… would be particularly useful for site images etc