PEX 100 - A Day of Dialogue

A day of conversation exploring the Peckham Experiment’s radical ideas about health, community, creativity and place, 100 years on.

2026 marks 100 years since the beginning of the Peckham Experiment, the pioneering study of health, family and community founded in Peckham by doctors Innes Hope Pearse and George Scott Williamson.

The Day of Dialogue takes place at the heart of PEX100: A Place to Belong, our four-day centenary exhibition at Copeland Gallery. Surrounded by archive material, films, photography, objects and contemporary creative work, the exhibition provides the setting for a day that brings the Peckham Experiment’s ideas into conversation with life today. At its centre is a question that still feels current today: 

What does it mean to be truly healthy?

Bringing together community voices, creatives, practitioners, researchers, policy makers and thinkers, the day will move through three linked conversations:

12pm - Panel 1: Community, Place and Belonging
2pm - Panel 2: Creative Health, Freedom and Participation
3.30pm - Panel 3: What is Health? Past, Present and Future

Panel 1: Community, Place and Belonging: How do the places and communities around us shape our health and sense of belonging? 

Moderator:
Phineas Harper – Writer, Curator, Artist & Architecture Critic

Panellists:
Dr Simon Duffy – Director, Citizen Network
Binki Taylor – CEO, The Brixton Project
Clare Delmar – Director, The Focal Therapy Clinic & Founder, Listen to Locals
Shawn Adams – Architect, Writer & Co-founder, POoR Collective

Panel 2: Creative Health, Freedom and Participation: How can creativity, play, movement and self-expression support health?

Moderator:
William Nicholson – National Co-convenor, A Better Way

Panellists:
Dr Suzann McLean MBE – CEO & Artistic Director, Theatre Peckham
Dr Alex Box – Artist & CEO, V-METICS
Gay Palmer – Social Prescribing & Health and Wellbeing Lead, South Southwark PCN
Dr Emily Charkin – Researcher & Co-owner, Wilderness Wood

Panel 3: What is Health? Past, Present and Future: The Peckham Experiment - What would it mean to place greater emphasis on creating the conditions for cultivating health.

Moderator:
Dr Margaret Hannah – Director of Health, International Futures Forum

Panellists:
Mohamed Osman – Executive Director, Impact on Urban Health
Dr Jin Lim – Retired Deputy Director of Public Health, Southwark Council
Dr Jack Czauderna– Chair of Pioneer Health Foundation. Retired GP
Dr Shuo Zhang – Clinical Doctoral Fellow, King’s College London

Choose the ticket that feels right for you

We want the Day of Dialogue to be open and accessible. Full-day tickets range from free admission - individual panels and full supporter tickets, with the same access to the programme. Choose whichever option feels right for you.

Your ticket can go further

The Peckham Experiment CIC is part of the Southwark Local Access Partnership Trade Up Programme. Income from ticket sales and trading can help us unlock additional Match Trading funding, so choosing a paid ticket, if you are able to, can make your support go even further and help fund PEX100 and our wider work.