Her Barking pushes the boundaries of experimental placemaking. In 2019 I joined forces with the brilliant Street Space for Her Barking Phase 2.
Street Space began the project Her Barking in 2018. It is a women-led movement, experimenting to collaboratively design and test low cost interventions to make streets and spaces feel safe. In Barking, 51% of residents do not feel safe after dark, compared to a national average of 21%. The majority of these residents are women, older people and disabled people.
Street Space has been engaging residents since summer 2018 to identify spaces where people don't feel safe and collaboratively designed and tested a number of installations across Barking Town Centre as part of London Festival of Architecture 2019.
Thanks to funding from The National Lottery, Awards for All, I was able to join the Street Space team to collaboratively design and deliver this semi-permanent intervention in St Awdry's Walk.
