PUBLIC WORKS

Public Works is a London-based not-for-profit critical design practice set up in 2004 working across architecture, art, and performance, seeking out opportunities for community-driven development to nurture and promote the rights of communities, environments, and ecologies.

They build long-sustained relationships based on the commonality and trust that enables co-authorship. They use different modes of social engagement suited to a community’s needs and capacities, be they playful, political, infrastructural,or academic. Their outputs are not limited to buildings or art objects, they incorporate discursive events, prototypes, circular systems, campaigns, governance models, food, urban strategies, participatory art, and architecture at all scales.

Featured picture: Folk Float, Egremont, Cumbria 2007.

http://www.publicworksgroup.net