Brutalism Undone: Metabolising the Technosphere in Thamesmead

Brutalism Undone establishes a collective practice between community, material, and the legacy of concrete within Thamesmead, London.  The projects ask us to return to a moment before decomposition and asks whether a different approach can be taken to the brutalist legacy of Thamesmead that can attract renewed interest and energy to Thamesmead.  Brutalism Undone reconfigures the concrete artefacts in Thamesmead as anti-monuments that can be accessed, recycled and reworked by the local community.  In doing this new topography is formed enabling porous boundaries to increase human and more-than-human access within the site. 

These concrete actions start the process of refiguring this human-made material that once dominated the site.  It creates new human and non-human relationships which highlight the potential of the landscape as a collective practice.

>>> This year we have been investigating how landscapes can be redefined through collective practices, this has been framed in multiple ways.  We have been engaging with human and more-than-human beings, with materials, policy and environments to speculate on how collective, situated and radical landscape practices can bring about change.