Conclusion
To be able to refer directly to urban legal and political
structures is an empowering tool for a spatial practioner.
Filtering the non-events of the everyday through a lens of
spatial legislation is a method of unpacking the conditions
we take as given and beginning to locate opportunities to
intervene at a structural level.
Engagement takes place different scales. I chose to look
at Wickes, in a very urban and public location; and the
Broadwater Farm Estate, an eclosed residential area.
Applying an architectural understanding of scale to my
methods of engagment I was able to experience the two
sites in depth in different ways.
While my physical presence on the estate was key,
a wider lens and even detachment from the pure
physicality of the city allowed me to reconstruct the
systems that had shaped is there now and what could be.
My final proposition, ‘Citizens Bureau’ brings together
my learning from Tottenham.
The notion of residency as an inhabited view from within,
and reapproprating of exisiting systems and structures to
create new institutions with spatial justice and ethics at
the core of their practice.