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transgression.2 “The garden acknowledges and makes space for the diverse and contradictory demands make on limited space. The starting point for the design for the park was the observation, on the first site visit, of horse dung […] These horses has not been mentioned in the brief and the land was not for grazing. Once recognized and represented, the horses were official. They existed – as transgressive and also as a source of pride. In Tilbury public space is vulnerable and contested. How do you make a park that is notationally for the community, really for the community?”
Liza Fior, Sophie Handler, Katherine Clarke and Kath Shonfield. “Rights of Common: Ownership, participation, Risk.” In Architecture and Participation. Edited by Peter Blundell Jones, Diona Petrescu, and Jeremy Till, 210-215. New York: Routlegge, 2005. Page 213