http://www.elephantandcastle.org.uk/businessandcommunity/heygateprogramme/

http://www.londontown.com/LondonInformation/Attraction/Elephant__Castle_Shopping_Centre/a4d7/

2. Friday 10th November '06, 6:00pm:We have now replaced five of the original posters with four altered and one 'What's happening to your e/c?'. We decided on 'As part of your community what would you like me to become?'In the hope of teasing out a more concerned response. The purpose of this is not to get a more mature and responsible reaction but as a variation on what we have already attained such as bringing the question from the point of view of the building and asking the reader or respondent to engage with the shopping centre, represented by the picture of the building.

Friday 10th November '06:Today we were looking at removing up to three of the posters. this is due to them being full or the space left has been scribbled over. This also offers us the opportunity to review what we have achieved by the poster / the question and the response we've got, also the type or response. So far from just a quick look at what has been written on poster 1 we're considering keeping the images on the relevant posters but changing the question to try to attract a more relevant response rather than an immotive, unengaged, flippant one. This may be seen as being directional but we have already gained a reaction at the more general level so why not attempt to be more precise in the time we have left? And also as the opportunity is available to us I think we should. The Type Of Questions...1. In what way am I a part of YOUR community?2. What is MY role in YOUR community?3. What would YOU like ME to be in your community?My own ideas hinge around the idea of 'An Englishman's home is his castle'. Ofcourse in this circumstance has a dual meaning working in it which I think would work well if a question could be brought from it.AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOME IS HIS CASTLEUnable to usethis word as not all people in e/care EnglishCould use 'a man's ''a person's''A person's home is their castle''Is this castle your home?''What do you want to see in your NEW CASTLE'

5. Thursday 9th November '06:Once again location has played a part in the amount of response but one I liked is, 'Good riddance to bad thing' The Masked Marvel

4. Thursday 9th November '06:Not a lot of reponse to this one again, possibly due to its location. the response that we did get was mostly based on the motto 'One love and peace'. Mixed with grammatical corrections, possibly a lecturer from LSBU who was unable to resist correcting our bad spelling and English.

3. Thursday 9yh November '06:I found a young girl lazily colouring in between the letters and being very pleased with her handy work I left this one to the young artist to return later when it was free.

2. Thursday 9th November '06: Not as much writing as number 1 probably due to its location, also the comments are different. One is almost too knowledgable,'Better car park, modern shops, free and clean toilets ,cafes and libraries etc.'Other comments 'How long will it take to build it again?' 'How will we spend our money?'

1. Thursday 9th November '06 3:30pm:Arrived a t picture 1 on the ground floor to find it filled with general comments. Ranging from 'More free toilets' to 'thieves Fantasy'. Number one has had a lot of attention from a cross section of people judgig from the actual writing and to what was written. We will have to replace it tomorrow ready for the weekend.

This is my attempt to keep a live journal on my blog as i work on my project , . its based on the construction of a project in e/c around regeneration of the area ,SO HERE GOES ,so at the moment i am thinking and working towards a new project based around e/c shopping center , there a lot of people , traders , shoppers , employers,-employees , worrying about their jobs , futures , being effected by the regen,,,, of the e/c area , i am working with aviv on how to approach this one without repeating WHAT IT WAS WE DID IN THE HAYGATE , ,WITH THE S/C THEYR A FEW NOTEABLE DIFFRENCES TO B TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT , FIRST IT IS IN A MORE PUBLIC AREA WITH A GAINING ACCESS TO A LOT MORE VARIED AMOUNT OF PEOPLE , , SECOND WERE ARE DEALING WITH ANOTHER TYPE OF INTERVENTION IN SURVEILLENCE , ( THAT WILL B WATCHING US )SO WITHOUT PERMISSON WE WOULD NOT GET VERY FAR , here we,ve had to get permission from the building manager as to b able to hang any sort of poster without it being torn ,,taken down ,,and are now working on it , the statement we r thinking of putting on this one , ( if its poss to call it that.(what will happed to yuo when ime gone , ) a very good start , , ,(were even thinking of doing different posters with different questions ,but for the moment its one poster one quesion , to try to understand what is going on in e/c shopping centerewe eshould try to understand the people within it , the traders who have worked within it for years and their costumers who have grown older knowing anything nothing different , , .the people who visit the centere on a daily basis , some just to b able toget out of the house , )(poss...... haygate ) others to have food,ime sure its used as a meeting place for older people during the day and younger in the evening , these are th people who wee need to make contact with , , get them interacting with oure poster, writing on it to invite them to interact with us by giving their views on e/c shp/centr soon demise and what they think the future holds for them ,


Monday 6th November '06:

Printed three sets of posters, three questions. Approached Mike from e/c shopping centre (s/c) with proposed work. He allowed two sets and had reservations about the third. NEW ELEPHANT AND CASTLE...DO THEY HAVE YOU IN MIND?He felt it would receive a negative response and his company wants to ensure that all interaction is within a positive spin.With that we reviewed the third poster and came up with THE NEW ELEPHANT AND CASTLE...ARE YOU READY? Returning at three o'clock for Mike's approval on achieving that we preceded to be given permission to hang three posters on each floor, each at a separate entrance. We have permission to hang the posters for a week and hopefully in this period of time we will gain a positive reponse.We are expecting a differen amount of reaction from day to day with the weekend possibly bringing the most attention to the work.

Resident of elephant and castle who kindly posed for this photograph.

This image i feel shows that within the estate the spirit of people can never b crushed, no matter what the enviroment , People will allways make there home a more pleasant place and will allways feel that they have lost some part of ther soul when they have to leave it .

Build them high, Rent them cheap.!

Photographic secion of the heygate estate.

Walkway to heygate estate.

Entrance to elephant and castle subway and underground .

Elephant and castle guard dog .

wicked,fucked up but cool,old and nasty,i am sorry but i hate you ,a real home is with a garden,night mare hood ,change the style , more colour,the homes are lovely inside, but terible outside, the designers should have been sacked soon as they finished the dirty job, needs security doors,the trees look good,disgraceful, needs to be knocked down and new councel flats back up in it place-that are the same rent ,get the poloticans to live here ,

HELL HOLE

FULL OF MICE

BREAK IT DOWN

Third floor ,

With these last 5 posters they were put up on the sunday afternoon left till the next morning till about 9o/c and even in this short time one han been torn down and left half way down one of the balconeys . One reasonethis could be was the time and the day , being saturday night -- sun morning the element of the type of people getting involved with the poster may have direct influence what may happen to them , especially that the attraction we had hoped was removed by using lesser quality paper was replaced with some sort contempt ,

We left it over night returning the next eve to see what we had or in this case what we didn't have , we had lost 3 out of 4 posters which was dissappoiting but what was left was exciting and very encouraging ,
on reviewing the loss of 3 of our beloved posters we came to the conclusion that we may have inadvertently encouraged the loss ourselves , first we used were fine photographical paper and also we may have left the posters up for too long .. Taking the content of the remaining poster our 3 others would have made a fine work of art for anybody.
our next attempt was of a more measured attempt, we used a lesser paper and left the 4 posters overnight only , we received a less dramatic result but a more in quantity one, what we received this way gave us an insight to what happens over a short time within heygate and the results would speak for themselves ,

TELL ME ?,,HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT ME ??

We the proceeded to place a total of 4 poster in a promedant place within the t/b, this was just opposite the lift doors enabling every body who used the lift to see our poster clearly and to b able to decide to if they wanted to get involved , the question used was chosen because in engaging with the public in this way we wanted to recieve a reaction due to the upcoming regen and the social conditions within heygate its self .

We proposed the idea of using poster with a image of the t/b taken from the front with a question on it .,
this would act as a way of attracting people and also inviting them to engage with the poster via the question,
we also decided to provide pens, (markers - 99p from local shop ) so that people could leave comments on the spare blank space on the poster .

1. Thursday 9th November '06 3:30pm:

Arrived a t picture 1 on the ground floor to find it filled with general comments. Ranging from 'More free toilets' to 'thieves Fantasy'. Number one has had a lot of attention from a cross section of people judgig from the actual writing and to what was written. We will have to replace it tomorrow ready for the weekend.

Monday 6th November '06:
Printed three sets of posters, three questions. Approached Mike from e/c shopping centre (s/c) with proposed work. He allowed two sets and had reservations about the third. NEW ELEPHANT AND CASTLE...DO THEY HAVE YOU IN MIND?
He felt it would receive a negative response and his company wants to ensure that all interaction is within a positive spin.

With that we reviewed the third poster and came up with THE NEW ELEPHANT AND CASTLE...ARE YOU READY? Returning at three o'clock for Mike's approval on achieving that we preceded to be given permission to hang three posters on each floor, each at a separate entrance. We have permission to hang the posters for a week and hopefully in this period of time we will gain a positive reponse.
We are expecting a differen amount of reaction from day to day with the weekend possibly bringing the most attention to the work.

Questionnaires , are a good way , but with a rigidity of the questions there is no room for personal opinions of the individual , also to cover everything there would have to b too many questions , to allow people to b able to express what it is they really think the decision was made to create a poster asking a question that could b interpreted many ways , answered many ways , and no restrictions placed on the individuals personal circumstances .

GRAFFITI
LEAFLETTING FOR OPINIONS IS A WAY OF ALLOWING PEOPLE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES ON A ISSUE THAT I WOULD IMAGINE THEY WOULD FIND DIFFICULTY IN FINDING A UN RESTRICTED SOUND BOARD . Which leads me to think how do people communicate publicly and express opinions in the wider community , and of course there are many ways ,

PLANNING PROJECT ,,


WHEN I STARTED THINKING ABOUT AN INTERVENTION IN E/C I HAD NO IDEA WHAT INTERVENTION MEANT IN THIS CONTEXT ,
intervention to me is to ( go between ) (interfere)( to get involved in something that has already begun )so I had ideas like leafletting residents of e/c for their opinions on what they though was going on with the re gen , what they wanted to see happen during and after regen ,
I would then take this info with the intention of creating a web site to be presented to the powers that be as an act of involvement and active participation by the residents in their future.
Working within the confines of time limits this project it would be hard to create every thing needed and still achieve a result within 4 months working on my own ,

Now e/c is poised to b regenerated , and its planning has been in the air for a number of years , now it is beginning to settle people are more aware now than ever that their community is about to under go a massive change, they are taking anything to do with the re-fit very seriously and are paying more attention to what is going to happen to them and their lives and livelyhoods,

With this approach the period of development in docklands taught developers , government, and community reps that the way forward was to involve rather than omit, taking into account peoples opinions, and people feeling they have the right to express their opinion in what happens in their communities.

All of these alterations to the docklands took time and had a mojor unsetteling effect on the residents who did not fully understand what was happening to their community, homes or themselves.
in 1980 a group of reps from the tenants groups approached the artists peter dunn and lorraine leeson to ask if they would help bring awareness to the lack of involvement in the changes that were about to occur to the vast amount of people involved ,
peter and lorraine allready having some experience in this area agreed and the docklands poster project was born , (1981)
During its time they created 6 photomural sites in docklands,showing a series of images called (the changing picture of docklands )to put these posters in the places that would bring the most attention over a period of time they used advertising boards , to adress the lack of info situation a series called the (first sequence was created asking the question WHAT IS GOING ON BEHIND OURE BACKS AND FROM HERE THE TOOK WHAT THEY SAW AS WHAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES TO THE RESIDENTS AND TRIED TO ANSWER THEM ,
they also placed alot of attention on the subject of housing , and here they created a series called (the housihg sequence



http://www.cspace.org.uk/cspace/archive/docklands/dock_arch.htm