Staffordshire St presents Made Without Permission, curated by bafalw as part of London Design Festival 2024.

What's an exhibition without somewhere to sit? Join us for an afternoon of collectively making a series of simple stools and seating to be used in the space for the rest of the exhibition.

The seat is a special piece of furniture that gives us the opportunity to congregate and rest. Depending on the way we arrange and position these, we begin to occupy spaces in ways that encourage a sense of community, or reinforce existing hierarchy. In the theme of the exhibition, the stools will act as freely moving elements which visitors can pick up rearrange and shift to their liking to help them experience the space in different ways

Info:

Saturday 14th September
14.00 - 17.00

All materials provided

Tickets:

Free or PWYC

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Bamidele Awoyemi, Farouk Agoro & Livia Wang (bafalw)| @bafalw | @tundeawoyemi | @farouk__agoro | @liviaqingwang:

We are a collective of designers, artists and curators that have an ambition to collaborate with different groups, specialists, and communities in the projects we do. While still sharing backgrounds in architecture, our work crosses into other disciplines of art, film, exhibition design, education, programming, curation, writing and collective acts/practices.

About the exhibition:

Made Without Permission celebrates a language of intervening in our shared spaces by ‘making it ourselves’ – greatly influenced by the different diasporas and communities that come together in our city.

Bringing together the work and practice of designers, collectives, artists, groups and individuals alongside day-to-day rituals and everyday moments the ground floor Staffordshire St will be 'occupied’. Over the course of the festival it will act as an active space to discover, relax and enjoy along with a range of different workshops and events.

Accessibility: There is step-free access to the gallery via the door to the left hand side of the main entrance. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. The event will be taking place in the exhibition space, which is a large open room with bright lighting and some seating available.

Staffordshire St is an independent project space in Peckham, South East London. The venue facilitates arts and cultural events and provides affordable studios for artists, makers and designers. ​

Staffordshire St is not-for-profit and all income is invested into developing our public programme which launched the summer of 2022. The venue was established as an art gallery in 2017, before then it was vacant for many years after a community centre closed. Originally it was built as a Methodist Hall. We intend to support a range of cultural events for the local community.

Staffordshire St will build on the established record of these histories, opening up again to the neighbourhood and developing a welcoming interdisciplinary arts space. More information on upcoming events at : info@staffordshirest.com or @staffordshirest

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