3 SITE PLACEMENT

First of all, the park’s appropriate size and location, its connection to nearby buildings, urban spaces and community centres, along with its facilities and amenities, makes it a potential space for hosting different groups of communities at a local scale. Furthermore, the park seems to have enough space for further interventions to more inclusively transform users into stakeholders in new forms of collaboration and active participation.

In addition, being under Camden Council planning enforcement, implementation of any project in the park can be practically challenging for bureaucratic reasons. Although these challenges may be considered as obstacles in general, they can be particularly useful in the case of this experimental project to make it more reliable in practical terms as an example for similar projects in the future.

Narrowing down the area of our intervention to be more focused, we chose the eastern part of the park including an outdoor gym, a playground and a community project which attracts people from a wide range of backgrounds and age groups. This was a starting point for our project to better understand social, cultural and environmental infrastructure of the chosen site as a scope of a community.