We cordially invite you to the third session of The Living School, to be held at The Limehouse Town Hall on Saturday, May 7, 2016. The session addresses the question of the Self-Built, and takes shape through a collective and spontaneous self-build project. Run by Chris Jones from 56a Infoshop archive, practices of squatting, ‘self-building’ and poaching are shared as an informational background for the playful building of a spontaneous construction within the historic Limehouse Town Hall. Bring your visions for the monumental or the subtle! Imagining forms of “self-building”, through wood, rope, nails, through our own histories or through our own energetic bodies, we attempt to mine the deeper sense of the politics of our own survival, shelter and collective sustenance.
Within this temporary structure, representatives from Rural Urban Synthesis Society (RUSS) discusses their pioneering contemporary work to use self-building to create socially, environmentally and economically sustainable neighborhoods including their secured bid to work with Lewisham Council to create 33 unique high quality homes on the site of a former school in Ladywell, South East London. Imagining forms of dwelling by sharing knowledge and working together throughout the event, a deeper sense of the politics of the built environment is developed.
