Social 
Practice

The Crip Playground was a workshop exploring disability, play and architectural space. Beginning with an artist talk on disability theory and the history of playgrounds, the session examined how play intersects with morality, trust, risk, and the regulation of bodies from childhood. Participants engaged in collective model-making and memory writing, drawing on their own sensory experiences, archives and case studies to speculate on the radical potential of a Crip Playground, one that enables rest, nonlinear movement, trust and disabled ways of inhabiting space.

Maintenance Tools of Body and City was a participatory art workshop led with older participants at Age UK Southwark as part of an ongoing exhibition project. The session explored everyday maintenance as a shared bodily and urban practice, focusing on tools, rituals and enabling spaces that support daily life. Through collective discussion and three guided artistic exercises, participants worked with household objects and prompt imagery to reflect on care, movement and routine. The workshop centred conversation, sociability and slowness, concluding with a group display and shared reflection at the centre.

Maintenance Tools: Remote Crip Community was an online participatory art workshop co-hosted with Busy Being Disabled as part of the Maintenance Tools of Body and City exhibition project. Designed for disabled people and those living with chronic pain and illness, the session explored maintenance as a creative, embodied practice. Participants gathered meaningful objects used in daily care and formed still lifes as prompts for discussion and making. Through guided drawing exercises and shared reflection, the workshop foregrounded lived experience, access, and translation of bodily knowledge into artistic technique.

The Chronic City explores the sensorial and bodily experience of urban space through the lived realities of chronic pain, fatigue and continual recovery. Framed around rituals of daily maintenance and healing, the project aims to draw rehabilitation mechanisms out into the fabric of the city. Through interviews, surveys and creative practice, the research identifies shared, correlating needs across chronic conditions and proposes retrofit “therapeutic interventions” along everyday routes. Through drawing, modelling, film and poetics, The Chronic City positions chronic access as a framework for more caring, inclusive urban design for all.