In early 2009, a group of us started meeting regularly to talk about the spaces in which we live, work and play.
We were interested in the ways we saw them changing, in how we create sociable spaces that aren’t …
It’s a year this week since we agreed to run a project to bring twenty empty shops in Brixton Village back into use. If we’d had any idea of the scale of what we were embarking on, I doubt whether Julia …
When Lambeth Council introduced us to the owners of Brixton Village/Granville Arcade a year ago, there were twenty shops sitting empty in the market. Its current manager tells me that in the ten years he has worked there, under …
UPDATE: The Space Makers project at Brixton Village finished in October 2010, but there are still plenty of other ways to get involved. Please contact The Brick Box community arts hub for more information.
When we started work …
Is there an empty building you walk past every day that you wish something would happen to? A patch of ground that you’d like to turn into an urban orchard? Or a streetcorner that, with a bit of imagination, could get …
For the past four months, Space Makers Agency has been working at Brixton Village (aka Granville Arcade), an amazing indoor market in south London. When we started, there were 20 empty shops in the market. Now they’re full …
It feels like a good moment to take stock of what’s happened so far with the Space Makers project in Brixton.
I’ll post some photos soon of the big foodie event yesterday. We had hundreds of people down and a great …
Come and join us this Saturday to celebrate the revival of Brixton Village indoor market (aka Granville Arcade) with a day of tasty events to warm the coldest January! Space Makers has been working there over the past couple …
Lots of you have already sent in proposals for Brixton Village — and we’re looking forward to reading them all after the application process closes tonight. If you’re still working on yours, you have until midnight to get …
Thank you to everyone who came down on Tuesday for the Space Exploration Night at Brixton Village. We counted over three hundred of you — and the atmosphere was amazing.
If you weren’t able to make it, Space Makers …
Come down to south London on the first Sunday of every month for the West Norwood Feast — a new people-powered street market which we’ve created with local residents and support from Lambeth council.
