Shopwork 's publishing venture was aimed at young experimental practices by encouraging and supporting them to write about their own works, and to draw their own theories around their practice. These were publications without a commercial aim, but which purpose was that, in time, could become a valuable tool to transform the way young designers envisage their practice. On demand publishing allowed us to materialise this idea without any costly overhead just by investing some time and know how. Among the first titles published was Stuart Bannocks’s “Hello My Name is Stuart Bannocks and I am Designer'“, Kim Thome’s “Works on Reflection” and Alon Meron’s “Lighting Mobiles”.
SHOPWORK
In 2010 we officially launched Shopwork, a hybrid space that merged exhibition, publishing, dialogues and experimental projects. The underlying premise behind Shopwork was to encourage and develop writing about production, practices and personal approaches to work, with the aim of creating a greater level of understanding about what design is, and could be.
Every Saturday Shopwork became a meeting place for design dialogues open to anyone who desired to be actively involved. These open design dialogues acted as an experimental model for design education, where "active learners" would join together in conversations that in turn could lead to the development of new concepts and design approaches.
Running parallel to their design activities, Shopwork is an outlet for works that question, explore, research and advance ideas on design.
Shopwork opens to the public with the presentation of its first exhibition and book: ‘Hello my name is Stuart Bannocks and I am a designer”.
For the last year, Stuart Bannocks has been producing ‘a badge a day’. The relationship between the made and the unmade or not-made is one of the most important themes of this project. The definition and concept of ‘made’ is stretched and distorted,
sometimes intentionally and at other times out of necessity.
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The Ferrier Estate is a housing estate located in Greenwich, south London. It's a typical example of system built social housing in the Unated Kingdom from the 1950's to the 1970's.
The Kidbrooke Regeneration is a 1 billion sheme to demolish the Ferrier Estate, and replace it with a new community.
In March 2009, demolition began on the Ferrier Estate. Today, some of the neigbors are still living in their homes, waiting for rehousing.