Bailey-Cliff Edge Project-Raven Row

Cliff Edge

A project based in the critical re-deployment of creative methodologies used in contemporary ‘place-making’ architecture. Research, an evolving exhibition and workshops took place in Spitalfields, a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood where London’s financial district pushes up against the historically immigrant communities of its East End. A 40-story tower under construction just outside the exhibition space instantiates the metaphor of a ‘cliff edge’ sometimes used to describe this spatial and social condition of urban (re-)development.

Initial phase of exhibition, as installed at Raven Row, London, 2009

Installation view with research wall

Detail of research wall

Nido Wagon Cluster, 2009

Voronoi tesselation of research network

Detail of installation, initial phase

Sculptural works placed around city by workshop participants

Curtain Wall Water Harvesting Device, 2009, from second phase of exhibition

Developed and exhibited at Raven Row, London, 2009