The Mountford Estate Community Hall is a project started by local community leaders to rebuild their local hall. With the architect Sahra Hersi, they organised co-creation workshops to draw new plans with the estates’ young residents and redesigned the building in line with the needs of its community. More than a mere project, it serves as a method and model of inclusive space-making, challenging prevailing development paradigms by centring marginalised experiences. The book is the documentation of their design process and journey. It aims to pave the way to better community care and raise funds for the building of the new hall. The design of the book was inspired by the architectural plans and refers to the architecture around the area. We designed a chapter system with shapes instead of numbers representing each of the parts people have to play in a community. The inclusion of hole punches hints at future iterations, signalling a series in the making.
Rose Gibbs and Sahra Hersi
Timeline:
March 2023 - March 2024