XR to creatives: “Stop toxic!”
We’ve been mesmerized by the COVID-19 pandemic for months. New problems have become apparent, but the old ones have not gone away. For all the talk of green recovery, the…
Safe Space: art for vulnerable adults in lockdown
Safe Space, a new art workshop programme for older or vulnerable adults and carers designed “for lockdown and beyond” is launching in the community around Finsbury Park in North London…
Ivo Peart: “Cummings and goings in Downing Street”
Political writer Ivo Peart reviews strange goings-on at the heart of government in the first of his new columns for DOCUMENT. Chief adviser Dominic Cummings knows that alumni of the…
Ernest Johnstone, paint manufacturer and Man City stalwart
ERNEST JOHNSTONE, who has died aged 86, was a much-liked northern industrialist, one of four brothers who built up Johnstone’s Paints into a major UK-wide manufacturer. It was Ernest who…
Coming : Being : Going. The Michael Clark Company IG Takeover
On 4 and 5 May, the designer Malcolm Garrett was invited to take over the Michael Clark Company Instagram account to present a selection of his record sleeve designs to…
Tom Bloxham: “We are not delivering units”
The railway arches at Mayfield, a stone’s throw from Piccadilly Station, is what all of Manchester was like when Urban Splash was born in 1993. So Tom Bloxham, the developer’s…
Back to the future: the memory of place
These personal reflections on cultural regeneration, place and memory expand on a presentation Thea made at Design Manchester’s Liveable Cities conference last November, drawing also on her current focus on…
Design & society: “local community should be involved”
“When they’re designing things in cities, local community people should be involved, because it is we that are actually going to live there.” So said peace campaigner and activist Dr…
South London: the new hotspot?
SouthBank IQ is a research study and consultation document by Images&Co that evaluates the potential for innovation-led growth in South London. The study identifies an opportunity for a dynamic innovation…
People and heritage
In 2019 – Finsbury Park’s 150th anniversary year – we celebrated with a programme of events including #Everything150, a contemporary archaeology project in partnership with the Museum of London; a…