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SET 91’s Open Series continues this April with ‘A PATCH Sunday Salon’, an exhibition and live programme led by PATCH, an interdisciplinary collective working across architecture, art and research.

Bringing together works by the collective and its members, the exhibition explores diasporic experiences of the city and considers how architecture can be understood through alternative, community-led lenses.

Alongside the exhibition, the evening includes a live talk and Q&A, as well as a conversational salon returning to questions of home and holding space, asking how diasporic communities can be centred within fast-paced metropolitan environments in ways that are tangible, supportive and meaningful.

This session is free to attend, open to artists, architects, spatial practitioners and those interested in the intersections of community, identity and the built environment.

Date: Sunday 12 April
Times: 4.30-7pm
Location: SET 91, Tabernacle Street, Old Street

🔗 Book your free spot on Outsavvy via the link in bio.

**As places are limited, we kindly ask that you only book if you are able to attend so that others who would benefit from the session are able to take part.

If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket and contact us at ninetyone@setspace.uk so the space can be offered to someone else.**

Photo credits: Courtesy of the @patch_collective_

SET 91’s Open Series continues this April with ‘A PATCH Sunday Salon’, an exhibition and live programme led by PATCH, an interdisciplinary collective working across architecture, art and research.

Bringing together works by the collective and its members, the exhibition explores diasporic experiences of the city and considers how architecture can be understood through alternative, community-led lenses.

Alongside the exhibition, the evening includes a live talk and Q&A, as well as a conversational salon returning to questions of home and holding space, asking how diasporic communities can be centred within fast-paced metropolitan environments in ways that are tangible, supportive and meaningful.

This session is free to attend, open to artists, architects, spatial practitioners and those interested in the intersections of community, identity and the built environment.

Date: Sunday 12 April
Times: 4.30-7pm
Location: SET 91, Tabernacle Street, Old Street

🔗 Book your free spot on Outsavvy via the link in bio.

**As places are limited, we kindly ask that you only book if you are able to attend so that others who would benefit from the session are able to take part.

If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket and contact us at ninetyone@setspace.uk so the space can be offered to someone else.**

Photo credits: Courtesy of the @patch_collective_

SET 91’s Open Series continues this April with ‘A PATCH Sunday Salon’, an exhibition and live programme led by PATCH, an interdisciplinary collective working across architecture, art and research.

Bringing together works by the collective and its members, the exhibition explores diasporic experiences of the city and considers how architecture can be understood through alternative, community-led lenses.

Alongside the exhibition, the evening includes a live talk and Q&A, as well as a conversational salon returning to questions of home and holding space, asking how diasporic communities can be centred within fast-paced metropolitan environments in ways that are tangible, supportive and meaningful.

This session is free to attend, open to artists, architects, spatial practitioners and those interested in the intersections of community, identity and the built environment.

Date: Sunday 12 April
Times: 4.30-7pm
Location: SET 91, Tabernacle Street, Old Street

🔗 Book your free spot on Outsavvy via the link in bio.

**As places are limited, we kindly ask that you only book if you are able to attend so that others who would benefit from the session are able to take part.

If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket and contact us at ninetyone@setspace.uk so the space can be offered to someone else.**

Photo credits: Courtesy of the @patch_collective_

Featured in this weeks @bigissueuk - one of five of the @thedavidsonprize longlisters!

Ahead of the deadline tomorrow please do vote for WearWork in the People’s Choice awards.

Reinventing industrial heartlands as self-sustaining, self-building neighbourhoods arranged around convivial yards

WearWork, by CARD Projects, PATCH Collective, and Maria Mc Lintock. @katiefisher__, @card.projects, @mariaemclintock, @system.of.systems, @bettsbubbles, @patch_collective_

Vote for your favourite entry to win #TheDavidsonPrize People's Choice Prize via our link in bio, supported by @Humaniseorg

16.8 million people in the UK live in old industrial towns where industries like coal, steel, and shipbuilding have declined, shedding thousands of jobs.

Sunderland's industrial downturn has left communities like Millfield behind. One of the city's most deprived wards, it faces high unemployment, low life expectancy, and a rental rate nearing 50%. Yet, with a quarter of residents born outside the UK, it remains a place of movement, adaptation, and potential.

WearWork proposes a new model of housing production, embedding mass material manufacturing within communities. On disused land along the River Wear, waste is transformed at scale into high-quality building components, creating an economy that values labour and time over capital. Industries invest directly in the housing and livelihoods of their workforce, funding the production of both materials and homes. These homes are held in a worker-owned trust, for long-term affordability and community stewardship. Residents shape their homes, gaining equity through time and effort rather than traditional finance.

Read more and see every featured idea on our website!

Reinventing industrial heartlands as self-sustaining, self-building neighbourhoods arranged around convivial yards

WearWork, by CARD Projects, PATCH Collective, and Maria Mc Lintock. @katiefisher__, @card.projects, @mariaemclintock, @system.of.systems, @bettsbubbles, @patch_collective_

Vote for your favourite entry to win #TheDavidsonPrize People's Choice Prize via our link in bio, supported by @Humaniseorg

16.8 million people in the UK live in old industrial towns where industries like coal, steel, and shipbuilding have declined, shedding thousands of jobs.

Sunderland's industrial downturn has left communities like Millfield behind. One of the city's most deprived wards, it faces high unemployment, low life expectancy, and a rental rate nearing 50%. Yet, with a quarter of residents born outside the UK, it remains a place of movement, adaptation, and potential.

WearWork proposes a new model of housing production, embedding mass material manufacturing within communities. On disused land along the River Wear, waste is transformed at scale into high-quality building components, creating an economy that values labour and time over capital. Industries invest directly in the housing and livelihoods of their workforce, funding the production of both materials and homes. These homes are held in a worker-owned trust, for long-term affordability and community stewardship. Residents shape their homes, gaining equity through time and effort rather than traditional finance.

Read more and see every featured idea on our website!

Reinventing industrial heartlands as self-sustaining, self-building neighbourhoods arranged around convivial yards

WearWork, by CARD Projects, PATCH Collective, and Maria Mc Lintock. @katiefisher__, @card.projects, @mariaemclintock, @system.of.systems, @bettsbubbles, @patch_collective_

Vote for your favourite entry to win #TheDavidsonPrize People's Choice Prize via our link in bio, supported by @Humaniseorg

16.8 million people in the UK live in old industrial towns where industries like coal, steel, and shipbuilding have declined, shedding thousands of jobs.

Sunderland's industrial downturn has left communities like Millfield behind. One of the city's most deprived wards, it faces high unemployment, low life expectancy, and a rental rate nearing 50%. Yet, with a quarter of residents born outside the UK, it remains a place of movement, adaptation, and potential.

WearWork proposes a new model of housing production, embedding mass material manufacturing within communities. On disused land along the River Wear, waste is transformed at scale into high-quality building components, creating an economy that values labour and time over capital. Industries invest directly in the housing and livelihoods of their workforce, funding the production of both materials and homes. These homes are held in a worker-owned trust, for long-term affordability and community stewardship. Residents shape their homes, gaining equity through time and effort rather than traditional finance.

Read more and see every featured idea on our website!

Reinventing industrial heartlands as self-sustaining, self-building neighbourhoods arranged around convivial yards

WearWork, by CARD Projects, PATCH Collective, and Maria Mc Lintock. @katiefisher__, @card.projects, @mariaemclintock, @system.of.systems, @bettsbubbles, @patch_collective_

Vote for your favourite entry to win #TheDavidsonPrize People's Choice Prize via our link in bio, supported by @Humaniseorg

16.8 million people in the UK live in old industrial towns where industries like coal, steel, and shipbuilding have declined, shedding thousands of jobs.

Sunderland's industrial downturn has left communities like Millfield behind. One of the city's most deprived wards, it faces high unemployment, low life expectancy, and a rental rate nearing 50%. Yet, with a quarter of residents born outside the UK, it remains a place of movement, adaptation, and potential.

WearWork proposes a new model of housing production, embedding mass material manufacturing within communities. On disused land along the River Wear, waste is transformed at scale into high-quality building components, creating an economy that values labour and time over capital. Industries invest directly in the housing and livelihoods of their workforce, funding the production of both materials and homes. These homes are held in a worker-owned trust, for long-term affordability and community stewardship. Residents shape their homes, gaining equity through time and effort rather than traditional finance.

Read more and see every featured idea on our website!

Reinventing industrial heartlands as self-sustaining, self-building neighbourhoods arranged around convivial yards

WearWork, by CARD Projects, PATCH Collective, and Maria Mc Lintock. @katiefisher__, @card.projects, @mariaemclintock, @system.of.systems, @bettsbubbles, @patch_collective_

Vote for your favourite entry to win #TheDavidsonPrize People's Choice Prize via our link in bio, supported by @Humaniseorg

16.8 million people in the UK live in old industrial towns where industries like coal, steel, and shipbuilding have declined, shedding thousands of jobs.

Sunderland's industrial downturn has left communities like Millfield behind. One of the city's most deprived wards, it faces high unemployment, low life expectancy, and a rental rate nearing 50%. Yet, with a quarter of residents born outside the UK, it remains a place of movement, adaptation, and potential.

WearWork proposes a new model of housing production, embedding mass material manufacturing within communities. On disused land along the River Wear, waste is transformed at scale into high-quality building components, creating an economy that values labour and time over capital. Industries invest directly in the housing and livelihoods of their workforce, funding the production of both materials and homes. These homes are held in a worker-owned trust, for long-term affordability and community stewardship. Residents shape their homes, gaining equity through time and effort rather than traditional finance.

Read more and see every featured idea on our website!

We are delighted to have made the longlist of the Davidson Prize 2025!

Our proposal WearWork seeks to reinvent industrial heartlands as self-sustaining, self-building neighbourhoods arranged around convivial yards.

WearWork proposes a new model of housing production, embedding mass material manufacturing within communities. On disused land along the River Wear, waste is transformed at scale into high-quality building components, creating an economy that values labour and time over capital. Industries invest directly in the housing and livelihoods of their workforce, funding the production of both materials and homes. These homes are held in a worker-owned trust, ensuring long-term affordability and community stewardship. Residents shape their homes, gaining equity through time and effort rather than traditional finance.

450 live/work homes, public workshops, and studios form a self-sustaining neighbourhood, arranged around convivial yards - crucibles for industry and social life. Taking cues from vernacular bastle houses and Wearside maisonettes, homes become sites of experimentation and innovation, feeding into a circular economy where feedback refines materials and design over time.

We are delighted to have made the longlist of the Davidson Prize 2025!

Our proposal WearWork seeks to reinvent industrial heartlands as self-sustaining, self-building neighbourhoods arranged around convivial yards.

WearWork proposes a new model of housing production, embedding mass material manufacturing within communities. On disused land along the River Wear, waste is transformed at scale into high-quality building components, creating an economy that values labour and time over capital. Industries invest directly in the housing and livelihoods of their workforce, funding the production of both materials and homes. These homes are held in a worker-owned trust, ensuring long-term affordability and community stewardship. Residents shape their homes, gaining equity through time and effort rather than traditional finance.

450 live/work homes, public workshops, and studios form a self-sustaining neighbourhood, arranged around convivial yards - crucibles for industry and social life. Taking cues from vernacular bastle houses and Wearside maisonettes, homes become sites of experimentation and innovation, feeding into a circular economy where feedback refines materials and design over time.

We are delighted to have made the longlist of the Davidson Prize 2025!

Our proposal WearWork seeks to reinvent industrial heartlands as self-sustaining, self-building neighbourhoods arranged around convivial yards.

WearWork proposes a new model of housing production, embedding mass material manufacturing within communities. On disused land along the River Wear, waste is transformed at scale into high-quality building components, creating an economy that values labour and time over capital. Industries invest directly in the housing and livelihoods of their workforce, funding the production of both materials and homes. These homes are held in a worker-owned trust, ensuring long-term affordability and community stewardship. Residents shape their homes, gaining equity through time and effort rather than traditional finance.

450 live/work homes, public workshops, and studios form a self-sustaining neighbourhood, arranged around convivial yards - crucibles for industry and social life. Taking cues from vernacular bastle houses and Wearside maisonettes, homes become sites of experimentation and innovation, feeding into a circular economy where feedback refines materials and design over time.

Negroni Sbagliato Talks - We invite you to join PATCH and our esteemed panel guest to delve into how people are doing spatial criticism differently.

Introducing the speakers:

Architectural Designer & Visual Artist Rayan Elnayal alongside Civil Engineer and DJ Heba Tabidi’s response to resist the structures and institutions that govern the built environment profession in the UK is Space Black. The studio explores underrepresented and under resourced ideas in the built environment. Together they imagine alternative spatial futures for marginalised communities though Concept Design & Research , Education & Culture.
@spaceblack__

Negroni Sbagliato Talks - We invite you to join PATCH and our esteemed panel guest to delve into how people are doing spatial criticism differently.

Introducing the speakers:

Siraaj Mitha is a Architect, Director of Accelerate At Open City, Postgraduate Design Tutor at the London School of Architecture.

Through multiple disciplines his work aims to ensure underrepresented students have the same opportunities as their more privileged colleagues in accessing the profession. His work addresses ways the profession might enact processes of reform to level the playing field in a profession which has historically been shrouded in exclusivity and class bias.
@siraajmitha

Tickets still on sale! Come hold space with us for a night where we discuss criticism with some of the most forward thinking in the field! This event is not to be missed!!

Negroni Sbagliato Talks - We invite you to join PATCH and our esteemed panel guest to delve into how people are doing spatial criticism differently.

Introducing the Speakers:

Krish Nathaniel is an architectural designer, writer and researcher.

Alongside working as an urban designer in London, Krish serves as architect-in-residence at a number of London-based adventure playgrounds and is an Associate Lecturer on the MArsh Architecture course at Central Saint Martins.

Krish’s research focuses on the spatiocultural dimensions of autonomy and augmentation within urban and rural settings, using the tools of free play as a research methodology. This work is often explored through writing and making, exposing spatial conditions and lesser known histories.
@krish.nathaniel

Tickets still on sale! Come hold space with us for a night where we discuss criticism with some of the most forward thinking in the field! This event is not to be missed!!

Negroni Sbagliato Talks - We invite you to join PATCH and our esteemed panel guest to delve into how people are doing spatial criticism differently.

Introducing the speakers:

Shumi Bose is a lecturer, curator, and editor based in London. She teaches at Central Saint Martins, Royal College of Art and the Architectural Association, and has worked as curator at the RIBA and at the Venice Biennale.

In 2020, she founded Holding Space, and is happy to share any stories from within and outside of institutions, educating, publishing and curating.
Come and ask questions - there will be no wrong answers. Come and share your thoughts, share food, and hold space this event is not to be missed!!!
@tontita00

Negroni Sbagliato Talks - We invite you to join PATCH and our panel guest to delve into how people are doing spatial criticism differently.

Introducing the speakers:

Renowned journalist Jonathan Nunn is a food and city writer based in London who co-edits the magazine Vittles and writes for publications such as Eater London, The Guardian and Prospect Magazine.

His practice aims to diversify food writing and the industry itself. As the author of ‘London Feeds Itself’ his reference to the experiencing cities through food is distinctly spatial, delving into the local geographies and community structures as much as the food itself.

Link for tickets in bio ✨
Swipe to meet our amazing panelists!
Join us @alexander_hills_architects !

In a world where anyone with ideas and internet access can be a critic, does the role of the sole Architectural Critic still hold relevance today? How has the precarity of architectural writing in recent years affected the role of the critic? And is the world of Architectural criticism opening up, or is this just reflective of the declining critic roles available?

Link for tickets in bio ✨
Swipe to meet our amazing panelists!
Join us @alexander_hills_architects !

In a world where anyone with ideas and internet access can be a critic, does the role of the sole Architectural Critic still hold relevance today? How has the precarity of architectural writing in recent years affected the role of the critic? And is the world of Architectural criticism opening up, or is this just reflective of the declining critic roles available?

Link for tickets in bio ✨
Swipe to meet our amazing panelists!

In a world where anyone with ideas and internet access can be a critic, does the role of the sole Architectural Critic still hold relevance today? How has the precarity of architectural writing in recent years affected the role of the critic? And is the world of Architectural criticism opening up, or is this just reflective of the declining critic roles available?

Join PATCH Collective in conversation with a panel of young practitioners, writers, editors and publicists whose work explores some of these questions. ❤️

Link for tickets in bio ✨
Swipe to meet our amazing panelists!

In a world where anyone with ideas and internet access can be a critic, does the role of the sole Architectural Critic still hold relevance today? How has the precarity of architectural writing in recent years affected the role of the critic? And is the world of Architectural criticism opening up, or is this just reflective of the declining critic roles available?

Join PATCH Collective in conversation with a panel of young practitioners, writers, editors and publicists whose work explores some of these questions. ❤️

Join us for a celebratory evening of delicious snacks as we celebrate the launch of our collection and printed publication for Open House Festival "Holding Space" 💫

Shifting the focus from London’s cultural centres, our collection explores the polycentric nature of London to celebrate the diverse network of communities that gives the city its quality. We’re spotlighting buildings, places and eateries that uplift and serve communities around London's periphery.

15.09.23
Host of Leyton , 658 High Road. Leyton, London E10 6JP
link in bio to tickets on Open House Festival website 🔗

With love,
Nyima + Betty

@opencity_uk @hostofleyton

Join us for a celebratory evening of delicious snacks as we celebrate the launch of our collection and printed publication for Open House Festival "Holding Space" 💫

Shifting the focus from London’s cultural centres, our collection explores the polycentric nature of London to celebrate the diverse network of communities that gives the city its quality. We’re spotlighting buildings, places and eateries that uplift and serve communities around London's periphery.

15.09.23
Host of Leyton , 658 High Road. Leyton, London E10 6JP
link in bio to tickets on Open House Festival website 🔗

With love,
Nyima + Betty

@opencity_uk @hostofleyton

Join us for a celebratory evening of delicious snacks as we celebrate the launch of our collection and printed publication for Open House Festival "Holding Space" 💫

Shifting the focus from London’s cultural centres, our collection explores the polycentric nature of London to celebrate the diverse network of communities that gives the city its quality. We’re spotlighting buildings, places and eateries that uplift and serve communities around London's periphery.

15.09.23
Host of Leyton , 658 High Road. Leyton, London E10 6JP
link in bio to tickets on Open House Festival website 🔗

With love,
Nyima + Betty

@opencity_uk @hostofleyton

Join us for a celebratory evening of delicious snacks as we celebrate the launch of our collection and printed publication for Open House Festival "Holding Space" 💫

Shifting the focus from London’s cultural centres, our collection explores the polycentric nature of London to celebrate the diverse network of communities that gives the city its quality. We’re spotlighting buildings, places and eateries that uplift and serve communities around London's periphery.

15.09.23
Host of Leyton , 658 High Road. Leyton, London E10 6JP
link in bio to tickets on Open House Festival website 🔗

With love,
Nyima + Betty

@opencity_uk @hostofleyton