Archive of Prefiguration: Writing Spatial Futures
Architectural Association
25 November 2025
This workshop explored prefigurative worldbuilding through speculative writing, annotation and mapping. Learning from existing projects that ‘feel like the future’, participants used creative methods to consider what prefigurative spaces can be, why they matter and how they demand new directions for architecture. The outcomes will be archived on the Archive of Prefiguration platform and inform new directions for the project.
Archive of Prefiguration is a collaborative, in-progress web platform that archives prefigurative projects: spaces that enact socially and ecologically just futures within the present. Produced by with support from the Architectural Association Communications Studio, the platform invites contributors to explore speculative writing and drawing as time-travelling media, projecting prefigurative spaces into possible futures. As a living repository of projects worldwide, the platform positions design as a tool to imagine, narrate and build intersectional infrastructures. It will launch in 2026.
Speculative Worldbuilding: Misreading Le Guin
Architectural Association
13 November 2025
The spaces around us tell stories of the power structures that made them. How can we begin to rewrite these narratives?
This participatory workshop positions architecture as a form of storytelling. Inspired by Ursula K Le Guin’s speculative writing, the session invites participants to worldbuild collectively through misreading, glossing, relating and deliberately wandering off script. Building from Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, which challenges the linear, conquest-oriented hero’s tale, we consider how architecture – as a narrative practice – can be a vessel for care, multiplicity and relationality and a vehicle for feminist, decolonial and postcapitalist imaginaries.
Facilitated by Leela Keshav, Kirsty Edginton and Béné Jakel, the workshop takes excerpts from Le Guin’s texts as a point of departure for storytelling, reflection and collective making. Participants are encouraged to share their experiences, doubts and desires in creating and naming imagined worlds, revealing the power held in plurality and shared imagination – because it matters what kind of stories we tell, whether in words, or through architecture.
Images: Andreea Teleaga
The Lost Gardens of Covent Garden: An Experiment in Collective Walking
Antiuniversity Festival and New Architecture Writers
October 2025
This walk uncovers the story of Covent Garden’s lost community gardens and the role they played in anti-gentrification activism in the 1970s and 80s. Participants were invited to co-create the walk through interactive narration and speculation, taking on roles of different characters involved – from local residents to architect-activists. We traced histories of community organising, radical gardening and housing justice activism, together imagining the Covent Garden that was, that could have been, and that could be.
Community Ecologies - Collective Cartographies Mapping Workshop
Bethnal Green Nature Reserve
October 2025
This workshop invited participants to make a large-scale collective map of Bethnal Green Nature Reserve – as it is, and as it could be. Our map began by drawing from our memories and sensory experiences of the reserve as it exists today. Then, it became a tool for speculation, inviting us to imagine how the reserve might transform and adapt in a changing climate.
Way/mark/ings Walkshop: Unmapping and Altering
Peaks of Colour
July 2025
As part of Peaks of Colour’s Way/mark/ing walkshop series, I co-faciliated a day of unmapping and alter-making in the Peak District. Together, we asked: how can we create modes of wayfinding beyond the conventional map? Top-down measured maps such as the Ordnance Survey are often seen as objective representations. Yet they are always a product of someone’s imagination and – in their boundaries, property lines and place names – convey a relationship to land predicated on extractivism and commodification. In this wayfinding walkshop, we cultivated our own map-making practices using sensory exploration, oral storytelling, collaborative drawing and mark-making. Through discussion, walking and making, we devised unconventional maps that reflected our own relationships to Land.
Image: Ella Barrett
GAARDEN Design-Build Workshop
Architectural Association
January 2024
Alongside Sharvaree Shirode and Abhishek Wagle, I organised a day-long design-build workshop for a community garden on the Architectural Association’s (AA) terrace. This initiative was part of the Winter 2024 lecture series we co-organised alongside three AA tutors called ‘Self Organised: New Models for Learning’, which focused on collaborative methods in architectural education, including feminist, queer and decolonial approaches. The garden
– an ongoing project – became a space to test ideas around collaboration, an informal gathering space and a place to grow food together. Built almost entirely out of recycled and found materials, the garden points toward new modes of building that embrace material cyclicality and reuse.