Field Office Workshops

Join the first of a series of Field Office workshops, in an exploration of new site-specific practices open to university design studios and young/emerging professional studios.

The first workshop, designed for teams to attend both in-person and remotely online, will be on 13-14 October 2023 in Deptford, London (UK). It is for students and young practitioners interested in developing new forms of site-specific practices, from innovative methods to alternative models of work, including architects, artists, ecologists, geographers, landscape architects, anthropologists, and urban designers.

The first workshop is a partnership with Sayes Court (CIC), a community organisation that has been developed through local resistance to a large ongoing urban regeneration project (Convoys Wharf), and is being developed as a public landscape and research centre. Sayes Court is also a place that was historically the London home to John Evelyn, the author of ground-breaking books on urban forestry (Sylva) and air pollution (Fumifugium). The workshop will explore three questions: firstly, how projects create equitable and meaningful engagements with communities; secondly, how data that is collected and generated can be made accessible to communities that are part of sites; and thirdly, how a site/project, such as Sayes Court, can be distributed across a wider area.

The workshop is organised by the Field Office in partnership with Sayes Court (CIC), with sessions led by innovative practitioners and researchers. In addition to the workshop on 13-14 September, site-visits are planned for September and a presentation by workshop participants will take place online in December 2023. 

The workshop is open to teams joining in-person or online.

Apply here. Places are limited and will be allocated based on responses to questions in the application form.