Church Street Local Projects Shelf

Local Projects Shelf

Church Street Library, NW8 8EU

4 May 2016 - 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Church Street Local Projects Shelf

Admission Free

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On Wednesday 4th May the Church Street Local Projects Shelf launched - a community-run bookshelf for Church Street Library.

The Local Projects Shelf features the many projects and publications about the Church Street and Edgware Road area and exists as a growing archive of the neighbourhood.

The shelf was born out of the need to share the vast amount of materials produced by art organisations, academic institutions, individual practitioners and researchers about the neighbourhood, with the public that constitutes it. The shelf is designed by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad, and invites donations of any publications or materials about the area.

Coinciding with the launch of the Local Projects Shelf, the event launched Studies on a Road, a series of pamphlets documenting projects commissioned through the Serpentine Galleries’ Edgware Road Project as well as Action of Street/Action of Room a publication by students from Westminster Academy and artists Febrik. You can download these below.

At the launch event the publication contributors discussed their projects and we shared our experiences of living and working in the neighbourhood over food from the market.

Open Workshop #1: Thursday, January 28, 2016

Open Workshop #2: Friday, March 11 2016

For more information about the project, please contact:

Amal Khalaf [email protected]

Ben Messih [email protected]

Featured Artist

Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad

Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad’s practice draws on play theory and defamiliarisation as contextual research tools for developing methodologies that critically engage publics within design processes spanning the domestic and public realm–from neighbourhood plans, interior and exterior spaces to recipes, games and objects.

Hashemi-Nezhad has exhibited and conducted workshops extensively both in the UK and internationally, including with the Serpentine Galleries, London; Liverpool Biennial; Shanghai Biennale; Tokyo Design Week; MACBA, Barcelona; LCCA, Riga; and CCA, Singapore. He is the recipient of a number of international design awards and fellowships, and is part of Theatrum Mundi/Global Street, an international interdisciplinary research project from London School of Economics which brings architects, designers and artists together to re-imagine public space. Hashemi-Nezhad holds an MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art, London where he currently leads a Masters platform focusing on experimental participatory design.