Building on previous sessions, this walking workshop will continue to explore themes of care, community, regeneration, and collective practices. Participants are welcome to bring a short reading or creative response to share with others as part of the workshop. This is optional and you can join in the walk without a contribution.
Contributions might include poetry, fiction, personal reflections, journals, theoretical texts, or stories — ideally connecting to care, neighbourhood, kinship, voice, regeneration, housing, or lived experiences. Other forms such as singing, musical notes, or short improvisations, are welcome.
Readings and responses shared with the group are intended to act as prompts for thinking together about regeneration, memory, and the layered social histories embedded in place.
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Important Information About the Walk:
- The Walking Workshop is free. However, space is limited, and therefore, it is important to RSVP. Please email [email protected] to reserve your place.
- If you plan to read or perform during the day, please email [email protected] to organise your contribution.
- A walking map and printed materials will be available on the day. The walk will cover around 6 miles and will be carried out at a relaxed pace, with several stops and rest breaks along the way. * Please note that the route is not suitable for young children.*
- We will meet at TACO! at 11:30am , before beginning the walk at 12.00pm.
- We will follow a mapped route with stops for short readings, creative responses and rest.
- A highlight of the walk will include free group access to Crossness Pumping Station, one of Thamesmead’s most iconic historical sites.
- The walk will last around 3 hours, including a lunch break.
- Participants are asked to bring a packed lunch.
- Participants have the option to bring short text (200–500 words) or a musical/vocal response.
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Community Ecosystems is a community research project led and organised by artist Mohammad Namazi. The project aims to initiate a series of conversations exploring the intersections of urban regeneration, community resilience, and the role of artists in shaping future cities.
The event is open to anyone interested in cultural work, local activism, and rethinking the cities we inhabit, whether you’re an artist, community member, activist, or simply curious. All are welcome to join, whether contributing a reading, response, or simply walking and listening.
This walk continues the Community Ecosystem‘s focus on situated research and collaborative methods, combining fieldwork and reflection as a way to engage with Thamesmead’s changing landscape.
Please note the workshop will be documented and will contribute to a broader body of work being undertaken by the artist Mohammaed Namazi including a future publication and other community-led activities. Contributions will be collected for those interested in contributing to a future publication.
Community Ecosystems forms part of Estates - an ongoing collaborative research project with artists, communities and groups that considers TACO!’s wider context of urban regeneration, the surrounding estates of Thamesmead and Abbeywood, and how we might collectively re-imagine community and civic space.
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Mohammad Namazi is an artist and researcher working through means and processes of unlearning, transformation, telematics, and media technologies within social and cultural realms. His studio operates as a research lab for interdisciplinary projects – bridging digital technologies with community engagement, and decolonisation to amplify marginalised voices and explore collective memory. His work spans DIY publishing, immersive experiences, alternative archives, creative coding, electronic sculptures, sound installations, and internet-based artworks. Further information about his research and practice is available on his website.
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This event has been supported by research funding from the Arts Council England and Royal Holloway, University of London
