What´s past is prologue.

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Impressum:Ein Projekt der Fachklasse Grafik Luzern unter der Leitung von Urs StrählKonzept und Gestaltung: Michael KunzProjektbegleitung durch: Carolyn Nobile, Hjørdis Dreschel Clark, Markus Wicki, Philippe Desarzens und Hanspeter Bertschi.Druck: Schriften: Bodoni, LondonBetweenPapier: XY

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Städte wandeln sich ständig. Eine Stadt, die aufhört sich zu verän-dern, hört auf das zu sein, was sie ist. Dabei sind die Meinungen über Veränderungen kontrovers,einerseits empfinden wir den Status Quo als unerträglich und trachten nach Verbesserung, andererseits fühlen wir uns im Gewohnten sicher und versuchen das Altbewährte zu erhalten oder zu schützen. Wir pendeln zwischen “So-kann es-nicht-weiter-gehen” und “Früher-war-alles-besser”. Trotzdem ist das Rad der Veränderung nicht aufzuhalten, es liegt im Wesen des Menschen – wir brauchen Veränderung als eine der treibenden Kräfte im Leben.

London gilt als Vorzeigebeispiel für eine Stadt im ständigen Wandel. Von Reiseführern über London heisst es, dass sie schon am Tag ihres Erscheinens veraltet sind. Aber was verändert sich? Wo und wieso? Wie werden Veränderungen sichtbar und wie lassen sie sich visualisieren bzw. beschreiben?

Im Rahmen eines interdisziplinären Projekts (Englisch / Gestaltung) waren 16 Studierende der Fachklasse Grafik Luzern in acht Regionen von London unterwegs um Bild und Textmaterial zum Thema “Veränderung” zu erarbeiten. In zwei intensiven Wochen wurde vor Ort recherchiert, be-obachtet, gefragt und hinterfragt – fotografiert, gezeichnet und geschrie-ben. Dabei stand weniger die wissenschaftliche Richtigkeit im Vordergr-und, als die ganz persönliche Wahrnehmung und Interpretation von 16 jungen Gestalterinnen und Gestaltern.

Zurück in Luzern bestand die Aufgabe darin, ein Konzept und Layout- für ein Magazin zu entwickeln, in welchem das gesamte, in London erar-beitete Material, präsentiert werden kann. Ein Magazin wie es nun hier in der Ausführung von Vorname Name vorliegt.

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StratfordStephanie JagdandDeborah Kipfer

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Deptford creekSiiri Tännler

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Deptford creek Cosima Mattioli

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Brick lane — HeritageMahtola Wittmer and Apsara Flury

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KingslandroadEmanuel Heim

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KingslandroadDavid Hunziker

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KingscrossDaniel Bach-mann

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KingscrossYvonne Haberstroh

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CaledonianNadine Blum

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CaledonianFlorence Morgenstern

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London BridgeSoja Hufschmid

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London BridgeBasil Bürgler

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Regent‘s canalGianni Fabris

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Regent‘s canalMichael Kunz

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Art-works at low tide

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When people look at Deptford Creek they probably first see the rubbish in it. Shopping trollies, televisions, chairs.. But when you look closer, the rubbish looks like artworks. And who would think that some of that rubbish is even good for the wildlife in the creek…

From my first view of Deptford Creek, I am fascinated. It›s low tide and I can see chairs and car wheels on the ground. And there are some ships which look very old and neglected. The whole Creek looks so forgotten.

By the beginning of the 16th century, the advent and growth of the Royal Palace at Greenwich led to the establishment of the King‘s Slaugh-terhouse on the site of Harold Wharf, while Henry VIII‘s foundation of the Royal Dockyard at Deptford Strand in 1513 led to an explosion of shipbuilding and related activities on both sides of the lower Creek. Near the Creek, in the mid 17th century began the tradition of chemical and dye manufacture that would prove to be central to the subsequent de-velopment of the Creek. Other early industries included tanning, brew-ing and pottery - Deptford Ware being particularly celebrated in the 18th century. The tidal nature of the Creek allowed for the development of mills from mediaeval times onward.The Deptford Dockyard was closed in 1869. Associated industries also began to fade away; the area struggled

to match its past success and prominence. From 1871 un-til the First World War there was the City of London Cor-poration‘s Foreign Cattle Market. I‘d like to walk down the creek but that isn‘t possible, because everywhere are these old factories and in most of them are now some car repair garages, galleries or studios. Then there‘s a bridge for pedestrians, next to the Deptford Bridge which is used by the DLR, Docklands Light Railway. The water is still low and on the ground of the Creek I can see three shop-ping trollies and a motorbike. A few hours later the wa-ter is high. Because of the high and low tide the creek is in constant motion. The next time I visit the creek, the shopping trollies and the motorbike are gone. Did some-one remove them? I walk over the bridge and into the old industrial area. There I find the Deptford Creek Discov-ery Centre. It‘s a small house and in front of it are a few shopping trollies and other objects that Centre workers have removed from the creek. They look like artworks.

I go into the house and a friendly looking woman comes out from an office. She sees that I‘m a bit confused and tells me that this is the Creek Discovery Centre. The people from the Discovery Centre are maintaining and protecting the local wildlife in the urban estuary. She tells me that in a few days there will be a low tide walk, to explore the wildlife in an urban environment and get the

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local people involved, and I should join, if I‘m interested. I am.The whole house is full of stuff that they have removed from the creek. I see golf-balls, toys, shoes, telephones… I‘m joining the creek walk, I don‘t know what to expect. I can‘t imagine that there are a lot of animals in the creek. I arrive there and everyone is very friendly. There are about 30 people that are joining this walk, the leader is called Nick. We get into the water next to the Deptford Bridge, there where I saw the motorbike. The water is very low, it doesn‘t even cover my feet. Nick tells us that in about six hours the water will be around six meters high. Unbelievable. The natu-ral brown colour of the creek makes many people think that it‘s dirty and polluted. To be honest I also thought that the creek is very dirty. But Nick tells us that about sixty years ago there was almost no fish living in the Thames, because the water was so dirty. Today there are about a hundred different fish species that live in the waters of the Thames.

When the dockyard in Deptford was closed, and the industrial area wasn‘t used anymore, wonderful wildlife developed in the creek. The first time Nick went for a walk in the Creek was in 1998, and since then he has been in love with the wildlife. Deptford Creek is practiculary im-portant to the life cycle of two species of fish - the flounder and the eel.

Flounder, a flatfish related to the plaice and dab, are found in their thousands. Young flounder, the size of a five pence piece, migrate up-river from the sea and spend up to three years maturing before returning to the open sea. The Creek provides a natural nursery from them. Pollu-tion drove the flounder from the Thames in the 1920s, and their return

Deptford creek Siiri Tännler

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reflects the vast amount of work done to improve the water quality of what is now regarded as the cleanest metropolitan river in Europe. Eels, the tape fare of the traditional London pie shops, are present in their hun-dreds here. There are over 25 aquatic species of invertebrates present in the Creek. They are an important source of food for fish and birds and their high numbers are very beneficial to life in the Creek. We walk first southward. I see a few shopping trollies and a television. Nick tells us excitedly about the birds which are flying over our heads. The post-in-dustrial nature of the Creek and the surrounding locality make for a very particular environment where bird life is concerned.

Two breeding pairs of black redstarts have made their nests in some of the derelict buildings and use the decaying flood defences as foraging areas. With only seventy or so pairs in the whole of Britain, these highly protected birds are of particular importance. River birds such as grey herons, coots, mallards and moorhens are resident on the Creek and in winter several shy teal can often be seen feeding near the Creek mouth. Cormorants also fish in the creek, following the fish as the tide comes in. In the autumn, if one is patient, it is possible to see kingfishers on the upper Creek fishing from shopping trollies and the ladders running up the flood defences. A beautiful bird in an area some may think quite ugly. Everything is brown and green, but when you look closer you can see that

on the walls are many different colors, different plants.Then we walk back northward and Nick stops and lifts up a plank and there are crabs! Chinese Mitten Crabs. I‘m excited about all the animals that live in the creek. The creek walk was very impressive and interesting, I‘ve really learned a lot about the creek and its wildlife. But more than in all plants and animals I‘m more interested in the rubbish that the Discovery Center workers find when it‘s low tide. It‘s funny, people throw these things away, because they don‘t need them anymore - they think it‘s worth nothing and it‘s a scandal that they just throw it away and don‘t recycle it right. But when the Center workers take these things out of the river, the rubbish has changed so, that the objects look like artworks.

Interview

It›s very fascinating how the appearance of these ob-jects is changing while they are in the creek. But how does that affect the wildlife of the creek? In an interview with

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Bettina Kabutz, a member of the Discovery Centre, all my

What rubbish do you mostly find in the creek?

We find a lot of shopping trolleys and then mainly just plastic, like crisp packets. All kinds of stuff people throw away.

What are you doing to stop the people putting their rubbish in the creek?

Well the problem is that, most of the things that come down here in the creek, people don‘t throw into the creek. It‘s flushed down from upriver, so a lot of it I think people don‘t even throw into the river but they just drop it and the wind carries it into the river and the river carries it into the creek.

Is the recycling too expensive in London or why do people throw rubbish into the river?

No I don‘t think that it‘s too expensive, I think people don‘t really care. It‘s an accumulation from upriver, and peo-ple walk along and they don‘t see a bin and they throw it on the ground. I think most people only think of their comfort and not about how their action will influence other things.

With all these events, are you trying to get local people involved?

Well yes, if we do have a clean up it is open to people, so we do that. But I think we try to educate people that peo-ple need to be careful with cleaning up things. Because the first thing people want to do if they want to do something good for the environment, is going and tidy up and clean up things. Which is not necessarily always the best thing. The best thing is, to first find out what is the right thing to do.

In the creek we have plants but there‘s not a lot of place for small animals to hide. The shopping trolleys work as habitats and a place for small fish to hide from the big fish when the tide comes in. So what happened is, the charity came here twelve years ago. The first thing they did is that they did a really big clean up and they removed over hun-dred shopping trolleys over one weekend and the environ-ment agency had a fish count just before that and then af-terwords they thought “Okay, let‘s have an other fish count, we probably have more fish now after the tidy up!”. And the fish count halved - so it actually showed directly that, when removing shopping trolleys, the fish population goes down. So that‘s why we try to, obviously we don‘t encourage people to throw things in the river, but we also want people to understand that when they want to do things, they should find out what the right thing is to do, rather than going and just doing something.

How does the rubbish affect the animals and the plants in the creek?

The general rubbish doesn‘t really affect them, they don‘t really mind that much. The rubbish that is a problem is chemical waste and oil, because that actually affects the ani-mals and all the wildlife, because it‘s poisonous.

Things like plastic bags for example are really bad because a fish can get tangled - it‘s not good for fish or for birds but other animals, for example leeches, like them. So it‘s kind of quite interesting while we think it‘s all bad, well it‘s not good but it‘s also not as detrimental as sometimes people think it is.

s there a time in the year when you find more rubbish than in an other?

We normally get rubbish through water that comes down river. A lot of rubbish comes into the creek when it‘s a dry summer and we suddenly get a lot of rain - sometimes we have that but we haven‘t had that for many years. But nor-mally we get a lot of rubbish in the autumn because the rub-bish builds up up river and then we get all the rain and the rain flushes it into the creek. It‘s not like we think rubbish is good - I might be painting too much of a picture like that, but if it gets too much we do do things and we do remove the plastic stuff and if we get too many trolleys we take some out. Do you keep everything that you remove from the creek? No, especially rubbish like … we got a whole lot of plastic, and that we recycle and all the trollies we take out, we keep some of them but if there‘s too many we give them to people who collect metal to recycle those. Things that we find are interesting, like bones, we like to keep on one side so that other people can enjoy them and see what we find.

What‘s the most interesting thing that you have found?

Not me personally, but the centre has found a undetonat-ed world war bomb in the creek and they had to call the bomb squad and they also found a second world war revolv-er in the creek, too. So those are quiet interesting.

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Everybody here hates the Olympics. No, we dont‘t!

When we arrived in Stratford for the first time, it seemed to be a huge, bombastic, breathing monster, this mash of train station, shopping cen-tres and Olympic Park, which took our breath away. We tried to find a way out of this scramble of human bodies and barriers, we managed to leave the people behind us. We were overwhelmed by the impressions of this big confusion, that we decided to flee, and to go back on another day with new vigour. Over the next two weeks we came to know the place better, and it turned out to be an interesting area.

London was chosen as host of the Olympics and Paralympics in 2005 till 2007 the building of the Olympic Park started- since then a lot has changed. The Olympics Park is located between the districts of Stratford, Hackney Wick, Bow and Leyton in the boroughs of Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest. 9 billions have been spent on the Olympics and the development in East London. 1500 residents, 200 buis-nesses and 5000 jobs were displaced, in order to assemble the land need-ed to build the Olympic Park. The Olympic Park has a spread of 2,5 km2

and it’s fence has a length of 7 km. 48’000 people work for the Olympics, 4’000 of them work for the extra trans-port system. The new Westfield shopping centre which was built and opened for customers in 2011, has given place to work for around 10’000 people. Visible from everywhere around the Olympic Area is the 115m high ArcelorMittal Orbit, which was designed by Anish Ka-poor and sponsored by the richest man and steel tycoon from the UK, Lakshmi Mittal. The red-steel-rollercoast-er-restaurant-building is sitting enthroned, like a mighty king, over the highest peaks of the Olympic Stadion and the rooftops of the old factories of Hackney Wick.

The heart of production through the industrial times, was Hackney Wick. Back then, it was the filithiest, smell-iest and most dangerous place in London. Because paint, petrol, hides and the world`s first plastic was produced in these factories, which have long been abandoned. A few factories are left, such as carwash, carhouse and some warehouses. Some of them have been revived through young artists, who came to Hackney and used to live in the old factories, and used them as lofts and studios be-cause of the low rent. They gave Hackney a new face, a colourful, friendly face. There are a few cafés, studios, gal-leries, and antique shops, most of them have a lot of vis-itors now through the Olympics. Hackney Wick provid-ed a blank canvas for experimentation. There have been many street artists and walls and factories were covered in graffitis. But then with the preparation for the Olym-pics the cleaning team came, they cleared the area around the Olympic Park, walls have been furbished. New train

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and bus stations, new signposts, new bridges over the River Lee gave rise to the new image of East London. The changes haven`t been finished, after the Olympics, old factories will be replaced through counceil hous-es, or converted into flats, with higher rents, which the artists and other inhabits will not be able to afford anymore. Because the government of London decided to gentrify this area, and give it a new image.The most eye-catching things, which we see in the whole town, but especially in the area around the Olympic Park, are the flags which hang from the street lamps. Little ones, big ones, huge banners on every post, in many colours, violet and pink are mostly used, followed by green, yellow, blue, red. They seem to shout out the slogan “Inspire a generation”, next to the strong statement “ London 2012” , always and from everywhere, nearly every street lamp on the way to Straford, has those flags on it. Information sings in pink, they serve the purpose, to catch the eye, to be clear through the town, and to the Olympic Park. Helped by all those people, who work as guides, also clothed in pink and violet, some of them point with fingers, some of them call out names of buses, or routes, and some of them sit on a high seat, and shout out “ Go left to the Westfield Shoppping Center, Go right for the Olympic Park” through a megaphone, all day long, every 3 minutes, when a new train arrives on the station, which is next to the old Stratford shopping centre of Stratford.

Stratford Stephanie JagdandDeborah Kipfer

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Stratford CentreThe Stratford Centre has been near the Underground Station since

1974. The centre has open access 24 hours a day, but most of the shops are open from 9am to 5:30pm. There are 21 million visitors every year. There is a range of reasonably-priced stores, indoor and outdoor market stalls, and the “inshops” network of small retail outlets. When you come into the Stratford Centre, many different tastes hit you: fast food, Sains-bury’s, vegetables, perfume, fruits, plastic. All the things come together. So many people are talking, they are here with the family, or a friend. Everybody is totally different. A man from here tells me that since a long time Stratford has had so many cultures and different people. That baby is crying so loud, like a siren. The market woman shouts out: “Vegetables and fruits!” There is a market, many markets: pullovers for 4 pounds and shirts for 3 pounds. And here is a “One PoundLand”, everything’s for under one pound. Everywhere are flags from every country, which makes this centre so colourful. Here the shops are not expensive, the cheapest are popular. In the Stratford Centre there is the Inshop which contains many small independent traders: a colourful mix of different shops, bar-bers, vegetables, shoes, food, clothes, souveniers, everything comes to-gether as a funny mix. Every shop is from another country. Here you have the Asian, Indian and Africans together. The people know each other, they are talking about their stories and make this centre like familiy. Here I like to linger for more than a few minutes. If you walk over the bridge, you end up in the Westfield Centre

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Westfield

The Westfield Centre is a shopping centre in Strat-ford owned by the Westfield Group. The Centre opened on 13th September 2011. With a total retail floor area of 175 000 m2 it is one of the largest shopping cen-tres in Europe. It is adjacent to the Olympic Park, East Village and the Underground Station. Westfield has 300 stores and 70 restaurants. The entrance from the bus and underground station is so big. The pink flags from the Paralympics are everywhere. I see the com-plete difference between the first week and the second. The Olympics are finished. Whats going on now? And whats with the buildings? Everything is so bright, so clear. You see the next floor. Everywhere is written where to go or where I could stay and what`s where. Everything about the building is white, black and grey. Even when it`s a sunny day, there are also lights on. The people all look good, maybe rich. They come from everywhere. The shops are expensive. Most of the peo-ple have an Olympic shirt on. They come here for the Olympics, but whats going to happen later? For me, the shops are impersonal, because everything is so big, it seems like you are in a huge paradise with clothes, shoes, sports things and more. Everywhere there is something going on.

While we`ve been in London, mainly around the Stratford area, we`ve heard different voices, which were all really interesting and different, so we`ve col-lected them. Here a few little stories about the changes in our area. Arabella is a sweet shop in the Westfield Centre. The saleswoman said: We closed our shop in the centre of London and now all the staff can work here in the Westfield. We don`t come from Stratford. And we don`t know if we will reopen the shop or if we will open a new shop somewhere else. It`s very good here, everybody wants a present, a gift or something and we have very nice things. I think its amazing for London that the Olympics came here. I found out that most of the people who work in the Westfield are not from Stratford or Newham. They have come here for the Olympics. The Westfield Shopping Centre was built for the Olympics. I dont really feel London here, its all new, strength, expensive and different to the other centre. I talked with a customer in the Westfield Centre. She said: I really see this as a chance to build up Stratford and also London. Now the people went to us and they will come back. They have seen what we invested in our city for the tourists. I really like the Olympics and the Westfield. Near the Stratford Cen-tre, Ryan shouts out: “JESUS LOVES YOU” and when I was talking with him, he always said: “You must read the Bible regularly, pray and love God.” Okay okay, but when I asked him some questions, he didn`t re-ally listen to me. But he said: “I think now Stratford

is the same, only the Westfield and the Olympics are here. But it didn`t change a lot. I never went into the Westfield, I dont like it. The people from Stratford are very different, so many cultures are here. And that was also before the Olympics.” And then he goes back and said that he must tell the people about God and his love. When I asked him, what he would change about London he really didnt know what to say. I waited five minutes and he didn`t know what to answer. I said, that I would come back later. He said: “I’m so busy telling the people about God, but ok.” But later he had disappeard.

A furniture seller from Hackney Wick says: “I have been here for 2 years and I see the changes in the peo-ple. They are not happy that everything gets more ex-pensive. Some of the people have had to move away, because the rents are getting more and more expensive. That’s sad.”

When we were in the John Lewis building, we were able to see all over the Olympic Park. For this view we paid two pounds. A old lady said to her husband: “Last time it was so different to today.” “Oh yeah, it changed a lot.”

The Woman in the Hackney Museum said: Hack-ney was awful. I studied and got away but then I came back and everything has changed. All is rebuild-ing and so much new stuff. That’s good for Hack-ney. I think. One thing I worry about is: everything getsmore expensive.

Cutout from the newspaper Hackney Citizen: xDie-go Ghymers, co-owner of the Hackney Cut Eatery in Roach Road, said: “Everyone was told that the Olym-pics were going to be a great oppurtunity, and the two weeks when the Olympics were on were actually the quietest weeks ever. People have made big investments and it turned out to be a complete disaster. We’re having some meetings at the moment with the coun-cil. Some people in the council are actually very upset because they’ve been misinformed by the Olympic au-thorities. We were expecting 60,000 people a day, and it was empty.”

Individual values are so strange. Like my article at the moment says “Things like the Olympics are such a waste of money when you see how some people are suffering.”

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Deptford is a district of South-East London, England, on the south bank of the River Thames. There is a large black population in Deptford, they now all live together in peace with other religious minorities and the “white English” people. Years ago that was not so peacefull. I’m telling you a story about the history of black people in Deptford, the change that happend in their borough and aspecially the story of Richard Brown, a jamaican man, who came to Deptford ten years ago to find his luck in this multiculturell part of London.

Black people had a long association with South-East London, firstly because oft he seafaring connections of Deptford and secondly because of the occasional needs of the court at Greenwich. Those with poor english and poor general skills often found themselves in lowPaid, unattractive jobs.

Elizabeth I said in 1596:“Her majestie understanding that there are late divers blackamoors

brought to this realm, of which kinds of people there are already too manie, considering how God hath blessed this land with great increase of people of our own nation ... those kind of people should be sent forth oft he land.”

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“No Drinks For Coloureds”

Needless to say, passive resistance by white locals con-tinued in both covert and overt fashion. Under the headline “Pub puts ban on ”coloureds”“, the Kentish Mercury re-ported in 1958, coloured folk in Deptford who want a drink had better not go to The Robin Hood and Little John publi-chouse in Deptford Churchstreet. For, after asking this reg-ular customers if they liked drinking with coloured people, publican Peter Sparkes is barring them.The reason he is operating his no drinks for coloureds” rule is because he fears trouble from local hooligans who beat up coloured men in a recent racial flare-up in Tanners-hill.“Don’t get me wrong”, said publican Sparkes. “I have no private objection to coloured people. But my problem in this part of Deptford is a special one. I have to avert trouble be-fore it starts, I am the joint licensee and I don’t want any trouble with the police. When the bottles start flying I am the one who hast o step in and stop it.”

Mrs. Sparkes said, “We found that when coloured people

walked in tot he bar everything went quiet. We asked our regular customers if they minded coloured people drinking in the pub. They preferred it without them. “After all, our regular customers were here before the coloured people came. We have to consider them first.”

New Cross Fire

By the early 1970s tensions between the indigenous lo-cal black population and the indigenous white populace of South-East London, especially between young black people and white youths, were becoming intolerable.

The New Cross Fire was a devasting house fire that killed 13 young black people during a birthday party in New Cross, South-East London on Sunday, 18 January 1981. Some were shocked by what they perceived as the indiffer-ence oft he white population, and accused the London Ma-tropolitan Police of covering up the cause, which they sus-pected was an arson attack motivated by racism; the protests arising out oft he fire led to a mobilisation of black political activity. Nobody has ever been charged in relation to the fire.The tragedy was commemorated in a number of reggae

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songs and poems at the time, including Johnny Osbourne’s “13 Dead and Nothing Said”, Benjamin Zephaniah’s “13 Dead” and Linton Kwesi Johnson’s “New Crass Massak-kah”.

(Song Extract from “13 Dead and Nothing Said”

13 dead and nothing said, oh what we gonna do, 13 dead and nothing said, oh what this world is coming through, 13 dead and nothing said, oh did you know, it could happen to you, can you feel it? No, this cannot be destiny, no this is too much mystery. Mothers and fathers uprising, brothers and sisters holding their hands. Can you feel it, all the pain and agony.)A Poem from Richard Brown A Portrait

I dreamed I saw a brand new worldA better place fort he boys and girlsSo why can’t wes top our fussing and fightingAnd let’s come together, let us all unite

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Too much tension in the streetTension in the streetI saw the strong, they getting weakToo much tension in the streetTension in the streetI saw a man knocked a man after his feet

I know a place for us to beWhere all mankind they could be freeThere will be no more war ‚nar poverty‚cause every men will be living in unity

Too much tension in the streetTension in the streetI saw the strong, they getting weakToo much tension in the streetTension in the streetI saw a man knocked a man after his feet

Richard Brown and the changes

Richard Brown is 45 years old and from Jamaica, he is a writer and fashion seller at the Deptford High Street market. Richard works in Deptford and lives in Bromley since 10 years.His life changed a lot since he lives in London with his wife. I interviewed him to see the changes for the black pop-ulation in Deptford since the trouble they had in the past.

Why did you come to London?I came to London because oft he . For etablishing my writ-

ing and the fashion I sell at the market. It’s a step in stone form e here in England. I like the different cultures here in Deptford.

Why do you write?I write to express myself and tell the people about my sto-

ry, the stories and poems I write, about luck and misfortune in peoples life.

My book, which comes out in a few weeks, is called Togo (the name oft he boy and the country). It’s a true story, my story. Togo, the boy, had a bad past and a hard youth. He had a lot of trouble in his young life. When he grew older, he helped other teenagers with their lifes and problems.

Why did you choose Deptford?Deptford is multiculturell, vibrant and there are good

black and white relations. A lot of jamaican people and their descendents live here.

What would you like to change in your life?I’d like to earn more money. I’d love to live from the mon-

ey I earn with my writing. And of course visit my sons in America.

And what would you like to change in Deptford?I would change the government. They have to do more

fort he poor people down here.

What do you know about the history of black people in Deptford?

The 1950s were bad, black people could not go to all shops and pubs, wherer white people were. They had to prove themselves and work really hard for the recognition. They had to brake down the barriors and set a sign for com-ing together. But now the relation between black and white people is good. Now the black people in Deptford have the scepter in the hand.The problem now are the muslims, they don’t like other reli-gions then their own.

If you could go back in time, would you come to Deptford/London again?

Yes, it was a good idea. I learned how the first world runs. I unite with other nations and my wife and me have a better life here. It’s not important who you are and where you’re from, important is what you do.

What are your visions/dreams fort he future?You write about me, my life and my work here, I’ll be-

come a well-known writer. When I’m a famous writer, I’ll write about your story and your art and you’ll design all my covers. We’ll help each other. We all will live in harmony. Lounching my book in the end off septembre, I hope all will come as I dreamed o fand 1‘000 copies run out very fast and other people will reflect about “Togo’s” history and life.

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The Spitalfields Market is the starting point of our heritage walk. The Market Square is a popular fashion, food, vintage and general market, open seven days a week, but is particularly lively on Sundays. After an unhurried shopping spree at Spitalfields Market we continue our heritage walk. When you cross the street - don`t forget to look left - you can see The Ten Bells public house at Fournier Street. Formerly called Church Street, Fournier Street is an East End street of 18th century houses in Spitalfields. The houses mainly date from the 1720s and together they form one of the most important and best preserved collections of early Georgian domestic town-houses in Britain. In current times, perhaps the most famous residents are the artists Gilbert and George, who have lived and worked at their house in Fournier Street for many years.

Walking down Fournier Street, you can see a green lettered white build-ing saying “Banglacity” on top of it, selling Bengali products and every day items as well. Now you are entering Brick Lane, one of the most pop-ular streets of London. Everyday, huge amounts of tourists visit this mul-ticultural and trendy neighbourhood. It’s the border to “Banglatown” as well. When you look carefully, you will recognise that all the street lamps are painted in red and green, representing the two national colours of Bangladesh. The street signs are lettered in English as well as in Bengali. Turn right and you will see an old drinking fountain in front of a blue fence. You have now reached Christchurch Primary School, which is sit-uated behind that fence. The school used to be a Christian school but is now Jewish. It is not hard to see that this beautiful old building and its fountain are protected for architectural and historical reasons. You

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The ”Heritage Walk’’ is a guided excursion through London’s East End. Led by the ”Heritage Walk Map“ you discover interesting facts about seven heritage buildings and the whole East End area.

wouldn’t think so if you were standing in front of our next stop, though. But 57 Fashion Street, occupied by a photographic store called “Eyecul-ture” with its bright yellow entry, is a listed building as well. Across from Banglacity Supermarket, where Fournier Street crosses Brick Lane, Brick Lane Mosque is situated. The mosque is officially called “London Jamme Masjid” and has a very interesting historical background: The building was first established in 1743 as a Protestant chapel. After that, when it had been used as a synagogue far ten years, it became a mosque for the Bengali people living in London’s East End in 1976, which it still is until today. hen you walk along the Brick Lane you can see from far away the tower of the Old Truman Brewery, it‘s the former Black Eagle brewery complex located around Brick Lane. The brewery is today a unique mi-crocosm, attracting visitors from all over the world. It houses over 250 businesses, ranging from cultural venues to art galleries, restaurants, and retail shops. The streets are very narrow with plenty of young and hip people who are visiting the vintage shops and the Brick Lane Market. You don‘t have to be afraid of traffic, there aren‘t a lot of cars in this

area. Most restaurants stand between the Mosque and the Brewery. The waiters are standig outside at the entrance of their establishment to promote the menu. But you shouldn‘t go in there, you have to walk a little bit further to visit the food market in the Old Truman Brewery! All this market stands with cheap and frizzling food from all over the world! If you‘re not in the mood for something warm but you also want to be saturated, walk forward to the two beigel bakeries. Our tip is the salmon and cream cheese beigel. They look quite small, but don‘t underesti-mate them, one is really enough.

At the end of Brick Lane, you can turn left into Red-church Street. You‘ve heard a lot of all this trendy pop-up stores, galleries, clubs and you always wanted to visit them? They‘re located in this area. Or you can continue the Heritage Walk and have a look at the terraced hous-es near Arnold Circus. The Boundary Estate is a housing development, formally opened in 1900. The estate, con-structed from 1890, was one of the earliest social hous-ing schemes built by a local government authority. It‘s the world‘s first council housing. The Arnold Circus is formed around a garden with a bandstand. It‘s now be-ing preserved by the Friends of Arnold Circus and has re-ceived grants for regeneration. The restoration work on the bandstand was completed in 2010. Right at the bot-tom of the Circus you‘ll find the Rochelle Primary.

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Growing and gardening flourishes in London ‘‘sustainable and resilient’’

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Communities“Growing Communities” started in 1995. The point of growing com-

munities was to provide an alternative to the global food-system. They don’t want food to be transported all over the world and be controlled by pesticides. First they made contacts with farmers around London, a organic Farmer’s Market was set up, where they would buy products from the farmers to sell at the market in the city, or they could come themselves every Saturday. The point was to sell local food to the citizens. Growing Communities provided a place where local farmers can sell their food and they have an organisation, on which they can trust. GC also has the “box-scheme”, which people can order and pick up weekly. It includes vegetables every week, and includes field crops from the local

farmers, like carrots, potatoes, onions and seasonal vege-tables and Growing Communities adds all different types of salad during the summer, which are grown in their gardens. In the winter the people have to buy the salad from elsewhere. GC delivers about 750 families who have ordered the “box-scheme” every week, that’s about 2000 people and over 1000 Box-schemes a week. They harvest the salad every Tuesday and cycle it down to the Old Fire Station where the packing-area is. So the food their cus-tomers get, have zero food-miles, what means there is no fuel waste for any of the salad leaves. Growing Commu-nities owns three gardens in London. One is in Spring-field park near Clapton, one in Alan’s Gardens and one in Clissold park. “Our key principles help us define what we mean by ‘‘sustainable and resilient’’ as well as help-ing us to show how our community-led trading projects are creating real change. So, at Growing Communities we aim to apply all the principles to our work all the time! In practice, this is easier said than done and involves weigh-ing up a number of different considerations and making trade-offs where necessary; reflected in the Box Scheme buying policy, Farmers’ Market rules and Urban Market Garden management plans.”

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Interview with Paul, a GC

gardener:Does GC hire you? P: Yes, I’m paid for 2 days in the garden, and an-

other 2 and a half days where I keep a record of what we harvested and of what’s growing well and what not. I also work at the Patchwork farm, where we train people for 6 months, to do all the different jobs, which have to be done in a garden. After the six months of training we set them up with their own piece of land, around Hackney mainly. The land is mostly benefited by the people around. And we give them the sheds they need and they can on their own do what we do. And part of my job is to help those people out.

How many paid workers does GC have?P: It changes a lot and there are also some part-time workers but usual-

ly there are between 22 and 25 people working for Growing Community.

Are there non-active members?P: Yes right, everybody who has our vegetables-box every week is a

member of Growing Communities automatically. They also have the

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chance to give us feedback on our work, and we inform them about our finance plans and what we plan to do next year.

How do you finance the community?P: This garden produces about £4000 a year, but that’s not

enough to cover the costs to run it. The central amount of money comes from the people who get the vegetable-box, even though we haven’t put up the prices since 2008. And part of the payment is given by Patchwork funds.

Dalston Eastern Curve GardenInterview

with Brian, the manager of DEC Garden

How long is this project already going?Brian: We opened in July 2010. It was founded by the Lon-

don Development Agency through Design for London, they paid for the main growth to happen, for example, the trees. They’ve also financed the pavilion structure. And we’ve set up a steering group of local people to manage the garden. That involves having a duty manager here all the time to run the café. Even though it is a growing space, it’s primarily a place where people can come and visit and relax. The goal was to create a quiet green space in the middle of Dalston. Right at the moment we’re building up, so we now have a café and we’re planning to do a bit of space hire and start to sell plants and also salad and vegetables.

We are planning to grow a lot of salad to deliver to other cafés but mainly we want to supply our own café, so we sell what we grow. We also grow a lot of herbs.

Is it a big community?B: We get around 200 visitors a day during the summer.

We also have a network of volunteers. And it’s main pur-pose is to be a place for the community.

Would it be possible to run this place without the financial support?

B: We only had financial support for building it up. And at the moment we’re borrowing the land off the shopping centre that actually owns it.

It wouldn’t have happened so quickly if we hadn’t had the big injection of funds in the beginning. We also try to con-nect with other organisations, like Growing Communities, they’ve made a few events here and we are a pick up point for the box-scheme of growing communities.

Do you think you changed the community in Dalston?B: That’s hard to say, because the community in Dalston

changes a lot at the moment anyway. A lot of new redevelop-ment is happening. The community is all in a state of change. One of the aims is to make it a space the whole range of people who live in Dalston can come and be a part to it, compared to all the bars and cafés that opened, which are very much targeted to a certain group of people.We try to be an example that it’s necessary to have a green place in Dal-ston, because there is very little green in this part of Dalston.

Farm:shopFarm:shop is a project which is launched 2010. The main

idea is to let everything grow in the shop, which is used in the café. So there is a poly-tunnel in the backyard where they grow several edible plants. They have chickens on the roof witch produce eggs, a tomato room on the first floor and in the café its self there is an aqua-ponics-system installed.

John has volunteered at the Farm:shop for 2 months. He helps out because he likes the ideas with the chicken on the roof and the poly-tunnel in an urban environment. But mainly he is interested in the aqua-ponic-system. He is sure this will be a mass industry in the future, like it partly al-ready is in Australia. This system is built up with fish tanks; their water gets through pipes to a lobster tank. The lobsters live off the excreta of the fish. All together the water is now full of nutrients. The water gets to the plants and they benefit from the nutrient rich water and also filter it, so the water is clean again and gets back into the fish tank. The only thing you have to add is the food for the fish.

John himself works in finance, but he helps out as much as he can. In his opinion there was a lot of “green-washing” happening in this project. Which means banks and other wealthy businesses donated things, like laptops or helped to finance the project to make themselves look better in public. And it actually is a business, without the council benefit they couldn’t run this place. John helps out to lower their costs and to make it less a “green-washing project” and more sus-tainable. In the beginning it works perfect but after a year a project like this gets a bit a drop off, so you have to keep pushing. The people who started it are trying to hold it up but they’re already inventing new projects so it is volunteers like John who keep it alive. The weather will be unpredicta-ble; he doesn’t think growing under light is the solution. “But we have to combine the sun and artificial light. In the future there will be a lot of bad crops and so we will have to grow things on a smaller scale with more diversity, and mainly in greenhouses, so a lack of rain doesn’t cost us the whole har-vest anymore. An important theme is also to use less fuel to transport the food, so we will be growing in cities.” Cuba is the best example for this sort of system, because they weren’t allowed to import things, they are growing on any piece of land. Their medical service is also working better, because they didn’t have the chemical medicine, they used natural things. “Lots of the countries will bust up; so we have to

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learn how to live sustainable and for this reason the Farm:shop is a great example for educational reasons. Here and now an early step of changes is happening. In the near or far future the fuel will be all used and England has mainly imported food so we will have to start growing the food here, and this will mean a change of jobs. But I’m sure it is possible! There won’t be a big use of service jobs also the technology will take away many jobs. The fuel has taken away many farming-jobs and if the fuel runs out, the farming-jobs will come back.”

Guerrilla Gardening Richard

ReynoldsRichard lived in this building for 8 years, and he worked

a lot in adverts and tried to find an outlet. So he started with gardening in the lot in front of the house and he bloged about it. He found it was a lot of fun and so the new made gardener looked for more space. He found helpers and other people who where interested in gardening and together they started many little gardens like “pimping pavements” (pimpyourpavement.com).

The most of his work is near his flat so he can look after it and if needed water the unofficial gardens. Still all of the gar-dens are made without permission besides the one in front of his house. For the largest project, the “Lavender Field”, it took four nights and about twenty gardeners to complete the gar-den. This lavender is now used for the lavender-bags Richard sells on his blog. Once the police has even threatened them but usually the Londoners like the gardeners work.

I’ve walked around the block where Richard has his gar-dens. It is a beautiful experience and I even found some rasp-berries and tried some of the mint-leaves. It is nice to see that somebody tries to create esthetical little colourful spots in the grey urban landscape. Guerrilla gardening is already spread out around the globe and for example on the first of May is the “International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day” since 2007. They are also in the news with phrases like: “Green-fin-gered guerrillas sow the seeds of revolution” or “Garden ‘van-dals’ are blooming brilliant!” Richard Reynolds also wrote books about his work and the whole movement and lectures all around the world.

For Richard, Guerrilla Gardening is a change in the city, which influences the society in a positive way. The people talk about it and make new connections; Richard met his wife through gardening!

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An analysis of the collapse, the order, and the comparison of those two.

Kingsland Road is a street in constant change, as many things are in the vast city of London. Not only a remarkably large number of people live here, but with them thousands of different customs, hundreds of na-tionalities and as many new languages have settled themselves down in the apartments, flats and mansions. They supply the city with life, let it pulsate with energy and make it very interesting and multifaceted.

But this big number of people also left its mark. Additionally in Lon-don, for several years changes were made, and mainly have affected Hack-ney. Mostly the preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012, which transformed a huge part of the city and consumed millions of pounds. Our visit to London fell to the Paralympics, so we could read and watch the newest sensations and records every day in the newspa-pers and on television, which seemed to have less else of importance to say. The visit of this pulsating, lively city was still everything but boring.

Chaos and order, structure and decay, that was my issue. The place of interest for me was Kingsland Road, one of the oldest streets in London, dating back to the roman empire. Earlier it was called “Ermine Street” and Norton Folgate, Shoreditch High Street and Stoke Newington were part of it. The Road was so long, it spanned from London to Lincoln, which is f My aim was to show the two different aspects on the road, which I named before-hand: Order and chaos .

Orderly structured

objects against entropy

Structure and decay, destruction, construction, create, tearing down, piling, overthrow. Cracks, crumbled stone, smashed plates, suspended wooden walls and collapsed bricks. Bright colors that stand out against ancient walls and put glaring contrasts. Everyone wants to be seen, only a few are seen. In the side streets there is a long time no more colorful shops, or at most a pub where the locals arrive regularly.

Several blocks of stone, piled next to each other, form-ing a wall. One can see where once was a window where a door, where an entire house once stood. In some plac-es, the walls literally fell apart as the stone dissolved over time and could no longer support its own weight.

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patched roads are everywhere visible. Where in Switzerland the roads had been re-tarred perfectly new, the abstract patterns in the asphalt here remind oneself of pictures from Picasso. In other places, it is only the difference in the way things are put together. The quest for perfection stands against the way of the practical use. Simple Bricks rise next to the modern, high-rise, apartment block. The sharp, thin tower of the Süley-manyje mosque looms over the simple red house, built with bricks, on the door frame a carved crest stone is placed. It was my goal to record some of these contrasts and make them accessible to even those who have never taken it. It‘s interesting without doubt, but the atmosphere will be felt only in London itself ever. This city, which does not even know quietness at night. People continue to live together, continue to walk beside each other, and still make this city a place where so many things can happen, if you are just there, to look at them. Also, I concentrated much on the general color scheme of this street and Hackney and am attempting to give the dear reader a overview. For this, the black and white drawings, combined with the text and the theme of this issue and the colour, will serve greatly.

Time is not rushingThe change happens slow or fast, depending what you are looking for.

For me, it was the slow change, the steadily higher growing buildings, the changing of the color, the crumbling of walls. It all has a bit of the

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message of constant “change” within itself and continues to contribute a big source of valuable information for myself and others like me. Interest-ingly, Kingsland Road has its beginning in Shoreditch, which is one of the “party locations” in london and also counts itself to the places which are the most lively, day and night alike. But it grows longer, stretches far into Hackney, a former “poor-people”-place in the city. It succeeded in grow-ing more and more expensive, even shutting people out who left Hackney because of its anti-appeal, now not even having enough money to come back. The Olympic Games transformed this part of the city mostly to the better, I›ll wager. In the Hackney Library, where a little exhibition took place, I learned quite a lot about the people and their feelings about the place. Some sounder very hopeful that the Olympic Games would change their lifes to the better and for the most part it did. Still, residents of this part of the city barely involve themselves in the event, probably only prof-iting from the bigger stream of tourists.

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01Victoria DockHelmut Gernsheim1920?

02Fleet Street, looking westGeorge Reidc. 1930

03Connaught SquareHelmut Gernsheim1950?

04Queen’s House and Roayal

Naval College, Greenwich, From the Greenwich Observ.

Helmut Gernsheim1950?

05No. 10, Downing StreetHelmut Gernsheim1950?

06Rosemary WorkChris Dorley-Brown2009

07BankAnonymousc. 1900

08The MonumentHelmut Gernsheim1950?

09Farrindon Street, loking towards

Holborn ViaductCharles Wilsonc. 1890

10Bishop’s CourtArthus Eason1882

11St. James SquareHelmut Gernsheim1950?

12Piccadilly CircusHelmut Gernsheim1950?

13London Bridge, South SideAnonymousc. 1900

14George Inn, SouthwarkHelmut Gernsheim1950?

15At BankJohn Galtc. 1900

16Tower BridgeHelmut Gernsheim1950?

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Silence doesn’t change anything. You got to yell at the crowd, so they understand that there must be a change. I tried to communi-cate trough the second dimension with poster design, to make them show their feelings.

A way to communicate with the urban masses

Micky

“I wouldnt go to Kings Cross at night, mate.” Micky took a sip of his pint and looked at me like a teacher in middle school. “ In the earlier days there was only crime and drugs in this area,” he explained,“ and its still a place for drug addicted people and prosti-

tutes, mate.“ I thought back at the first moment I saw the station across the road. It didn’t seem to be a place where people get stabbed or went to buy drugs. It was so anony-mous, just a place where workers change their tube lines, tourist arrive with the train or have a break and drink a coffee in Starbucks or any other café. ” Before the Euros-tar came to St Pancras, there were far more outlaws and organised crime in the dirty roads behind the rails, bad people mate“, maybe he had seen my thoughts in my face that he tried to explain to me why it has changed in the last few years, ” muggers, they come in our beautiful coun-try and do this shit for a living, no chance to get a job, so why not robb some wealthy tourists?“ he said. I answered that the city does’nt give them a choice. ” You always have the choice, mate, they could go back or even try to find a way to survive, which is maybe harder, but legal, mate.“ He spoke with the slang of an elder citizen, who has past his whole life in the city of gold. I asked where he’s coming from.” Islington, mate, i’m from here, 20 years by now, I know how this city works. I worked as lighting director in the theatres all over the world, have seen many countrys, mate.“ We both took a mouthful of beer, mine Guiness, really learned to love this black Irish stuff. Micky said something to the barkeeper, his name is Jason, didn’t unterstand it, but both started to laugh. Must have been a good joke maybe about something hap-pened a long time ago, they know each other since they have been children. Jason is running this pub for 30 years, it’s a locals pub near the Sadlers Wells Theatre, called Shakespeare’s Head.

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Punk

Micky showed me the way to an idea for my project in London. Changes. Everybody is talking about changes, mostly about things getting worse, because good changes are not that interesting. So I thought by myself. Why is everybody crying for the past, but doesnt even think about stopping the changes himself? Why do the people in London al-ways say they hate how the gouvernment keeps on destroying old buildings, but don’t protest? Dur-ing the punk movement in the late 70’s in the UK, people just did it. Why not design a beautiful al-bum cover, you can just stick some letters together with a better message than any high paid design work? I don’t say it is worse to spend time to do things perfectly and with a high sense of astethical value, but what I mean is that people have stopped complaining. Maybe even stopped caring about the world around them! Just finishing their dai-ly work, getting paid, spending their evening in a pub, moaning about how the city gets run down. Micky is a really nice guy, I dont want to use him as a bad example, I just want to show you how his talk has opened up my eyes for my topic.

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Street ArtI was also inspired by the street arts, I saw, walkin trough London.

Sprayers still keep on showing their political statements to the crowd. The underground part of urban life is always fighting against the general helplessness. The problem is that not everybody is born with the talent do decorate the public walls with such great art works and maybe doesn’t want to get into being hunted by the police. These two reasons have affected my style of work as well, as my graphics education. So I decided to do posters, bringing the old method of political statements back to life. When I started, I knew, I’m going to do thisby hand. Not well thought out digital posters. Bringing my thoughts in 10 minutes in to a shape on the paper, this was the aim I went for. That’s how I came to the Stencil Typography. Some would say: a children’s toy. I would answer: fast, clean and modern. Stencils are an easy way for everybody to do a good looking type-poster, with less work than at the computer.

RevolutionI wanted to demonstrate that it’s easy to show your opinion to

the masses. Later I changed the format and started painting my mes-sages, giving the whole thing a new style. Dirtier, faster and putting in more individuality. I wanted to change places with my posters.

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Time machine A time travel with the aid of an old unchanged haircut business in the Caledonian Road.

The hairdresser is at the end of the Caledonian road near the prison. The shop isn’t really conspicuous between the other shops. But the hair shop looks like that he is in the street for decades. The coat is crumbling away from the wall and the windowpane possesses a big layer of dust and dirt. It seems as if the business has not changed much in all those years. It is a haircut store for old aged pensioners. I asked the staff ques-tions about changes in the street or in the shop. They were very friend-ly to me. Adil, the temporary help, served me a cup of tea. The chief of the hair dress shop is on holiday. His two workers run the business alone over this time. Milan is a permanent employee for two years. He comes from Bulgaria and has lived in London for two years. He likes the work very much. ”Sometimes not much is going on, but sometimes people are very busy and stressed.” Both haven›t found major changes. I had to ask the customers. Old man told me that his skin had changed

over the years. Previously he was a handsome man. He had a film actress as his wife but he didn›t betray me her name. He also said that it annoyed him that the food shops had become bad. “When I was a child, they were much better.” Also the parking space is bad. A few years ago you could park your car on the roadside. “Now I will get a ticket!”

Another customer told me that he had been going for 30 years to this hairdresser. He said that the Cally road was more dangerous than today. There was a high crime rate and the Kray brothers were carrying out the dread-ful affairs.

World of Criminal Justice on Kray Brothers Known as three of Britain‘s most brutal criminals in the 1960s, the Kray brothers, Ronnie, and Reggie. Their organized crime activities included protection rackets, illegal gam-bling, drug trafficking and murder; all in a period of lit-tle over a decade. Upon their capture and imprisonment, however, they gained something of a legendary status; to some, they were champions of the poor rather than vi-cious killers.

Early lifeThe twins Reggie and Ronnie were born in 1933.

Raised in London‘s East End, they engaged in petty crime from boyhood but they did not seem destined for lives as criminals. Reggie and Ronnie showed talent as ama-teur boxers and they served in the military. But by the late 1950s, the Krays had settled into a lifestyle that eventual

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Nightclub ownersThey set up a protection racket in their East End neighborhood but

moved to the West End in 1960, where they started a gambling club. They tried to make the business appear legitimate but they continued to engage in criminal activity. Reggie and Ronnie were known to be more volatile.

Celebrity statusThe brothers enjoyed socializing with celebrities, and celebrities en-

joyed spending time with the Krays. Throughout the 1960s, the Krays stepped up their illegal activities, making a reputation as some of the most deadly members of the London underworld. In 1966, Ronnie Kray shot a man who had called him fat. The following year, Reggie stabbed another criminal to death. Scotland Yard had been trying unsuccessfully to catch the Krays before they were finally arrested in 1968.

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Interviews with Cally people

QUESTIONS FROM A-I

A: Do you like the Cally-Road ?B: What would you change on the cally road if you could ?C: Since when do you live or work here ?D: Do you have old pictures ?E: What was here before ?F: What`s your favourite place to be on the Cally Road ?G: Do you have family or friends here ?H: What do you think was here in the past (in the whole

street) ?I: What do you think about the poor and rich mix here ?

FIRST:AKIINE KIVELÄ

/ Sweden / 24 / musician & bar-keeper

A: Yeh, I think so, but I don`t know it realy well, it is not the beauty but I have to say I like it, yes.

B: I would wish for more nature, more trees and grass. Oh, and the shop should be on the other side of the street with more windows at the front, because the sun is going down earlier on this side of the street.

C: I am here since March, just 6 months now.D. —E: Yes i know (very happy) first it was a turkish bath,

downstairs were now the toilets are was the bath, before we came in it was a sex shop, if you go downstairs you will find the original light type from the sex shop.

F: My favourite place, I don`t know hmm.. maybe the park, but in the Cally-Road there isn`t one.; if I could say any place in london it would be the Victoria park. But to be honest with you, I only work in the Cally and I never even walked the whole road.

G: No I don`t, but my dad told me i should have some old people here, but i don`t know them. My dream is to move on to SAN FRANCISCO.

H: I dont know the history very well, but I know it was a bad area, many prostitutes and sex shops and drugs were here before.

I: Oh, I can`t help you with that, I don`t know.

SECOND:Grace Manning

/20 / Bar-Keeper and art stu-dent St.Martin`s College

A: Yes I like the Cally, I spend much time here. I live, work and study here.

B: The old man who owned the shops in the street, I would wish that he never bought anything. Or if he`d spend the money for the right tings. I think is he is not good forr the street with all his money, the charming character dis-appeared when he showed up; he has so much money and bought so many places here but he doesn`t really take care of them, eyverything is in a bad condition and looks like that. I would wish for more creativity, our place is the only one in that direction

C: Now I`ve been living here for about a year in the Cally Road.

D: “ same like Akiine, but you have to look at the pho-tographer Don McCullin, he is a wonderful photographer and he did makes also a project about the Cally Road.

E: —F: My home?, opposite of the Cally-stationG: Yes, I have, in south-east LondonH: It was a workingclass street many (impoverished-work-

ingclass) it had a lot of gangs (Finsbury)I: Islington is a very expansive urban district with lod of

council estate, I also live in one, I think it`s a very good thing. It has kind of a gang mentality stereotype, criminal people live there but they don`t hurt you. The bad thing on it is: the children know very quickly what it means if you smoke drink or be a part of a gang.

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Bob / 70 / tired of working

A: Yes. It has good sides to grow up on the Cally-Road. I think the Cally has to many supermarkets. I would like to make the houses more beautiful like at the end of the cal-ly-road, the shops & pubs are fucked up. I think we should release the old houses in the Cally-Road, we should make the houses nicer. Even if I complain of the street I really love the cally. There`s something else - I`m not a racist but the people on the street have significantly changed in the past twenty years. Back then you rarely saw foreoigners, like blacks, In-dians or muslims; it`s sad but in those days there were artists on the street and painters.

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Now I`ve been living here for about a year in the Cally Road.

Instead of renovating they make everything worse, nobody invests money in new business, most of the shops are owned by foreigners; everything looks cheap like in their countries, for example the typogra-phy looks cheap, all colored plastic.

That makes me sad. It`s a shame but it happend. I would never go to eat in one of the restaurants, you have to pay me if I have to. I love to sit outside, have a cheap drink, away from the people I know. That`s life.

B: I would like to ask the government to make the houses and flats nicer for the poor, they have to live in such a bad environment. And that they`ve torn down the Victorian houses; everything was so colorful here, colored doors and houses, it was wonderful, you know darling.

C: I lived and worked in the 70s and 80s here then I went away for a

while and now I am back D: You have to ask in de shops to old men who work there. F: This Pub here (MILLERS) in the past it was called “Queen

Elisabeth”. Now everybody strips in the pub`s, Than I need to got, “magst du es nicht” no, when I want to play with a woman that I pay 50 pounds and play with her; but strippers, No, then I prefer to leave; Don`t be shoked darlin I am joking.

*- I am quite happy, but I smoke and drink too much, but when a good band is playing somewhere I am always around and mostly don`t get up the next morning.

G: NO, NO I have no family here anymore, my children are out of the country and my wife she is gone with another man, I only say the 5F`s5F * find`em, feel`em, finger`em, fuck`em and forget em *Many things have changed, now there are many business people, I never wanted to live like that. NOt that I regret my life but I do not apperciaremy lifestyle as I did in the past. I think a lot was better but I don`t want to sound old fashioned, I just want to say that the situ-ation for the working class has changed for the worse. A lot of good pubs closed.

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A characterization of an area, full of memories and uniqueness, and which is in a constant change.

Monsters are rising out of haze of the city. The cranes stretch as far as the eye can see. The roar of dozens pneumatic hammers massacre the ears and riddle the thoughts. The behemoths get bigger, spread, swallow everything that comes to close. They need space. What’s in the way will be eaten. Some particles of memories whiz through the streets of Southwark.

You must be well hidden to survive. Just as George1. Encircled and pro-tected by larger buildings, he sits in a back alley. A smell from ancient times hangs in the air. It’s peaceful there. Many people arrive at his place in the noon and enjoy the harmony. All the hurly-burly in the city is for-gotten - just a rustle in the ears. But George is supervised. A gant of glass is watching him from high above. They call him reverently “The Shard”2. He’s elegant, lofty and fragile– at first glance. With all his strength he stretches toward the sky. But underneath him all disappears into dark-ness, rubble and chaos. Like ants move construction workers, commut-ers and tourist through the remains of past. An archway to whom it’s written: Bar La Spezia. It’s just a remnant, a lost crumb. It has no longer a personality. It doesn’t even exist anymore. And that’s because nobody

gives any compliance. The eyes are on the big bully above them. Or is it just an illusion? Is the colossal splinter a kindly and soft friend that plays clumsy in his sandbox? Matter of opinion.

The old Lady Bermondsey3 is still full of life. Though even in her presence is a fragrance in the air of olden days. It’s an industrial scent. Leather, Hide, Wool, Textiles. All this conceals the smell of putrefac-tion and waste, which once Charles Dickens must have had in his nose. Now this mixture smells like security. The smells hanging in the air like shreds, like fragments. They harmonize to the colours of her old-fashioned dress, which gives her an elegant touch. She is a calm und content Lady. She is relaxed and full of stories. As befits for an old woman, she’s a little forgetful. And yes, perhaps also a little bit boring. In contrast to her stands Master Borough4. Loud and busy he entertains many people. He has no time to introduce himself. One can only be astonished to watch the goings on. His new cloak hides under no circumstances his elderly charm. Sometimes change can en-hance a character.

It’s the combination of new and old that makes up the living together. New things grow and aged things die or get into oblivion. That’s the circle of life.

1 “The George” is London’s only surviving galleried coaching inn. It stands on the south side of the river Thames near London Bridge. The original “George Inn” was destroyed by fire in 1676 and in the same year rebuilt. The pub can be traced back to the year 1542.

2 With 310 meters is “The Shard” the tallest building in West Europe. The glass object was finished on 5.July 2012 after 3 years of con-struction. 3 First mentioned in writing is the Bermondsey Street at the begin-ning of the 11th Century. The territory has undergone major changes. Of garden suburbs to slums up to industrial area. Bermondsey was a textile and fashion mecca.

4 Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday occurs a Market called “Bor-ough Market”. The marked finds its roots in London of the 13th Century, where it has always existed in the same location, the site of the Rochester Yard. It’s one of the oldest food markets in London.

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An area in changeChange accompagnied us every single moment. But most of the time

we didn`t recogniseit till the moment it happened.

The area around King`s Cross is in an permenental change. It has en enormous history from wasteland to wonderland.

Change accompanies us every single moment in life. After riping, change may break out like a bomb even though the seed has been hidden deep under layers of earth. There are different kinds of change. On the one hand, there is spontaneous change arising from an impulse, and on the other hand, there is planned change resulting from a long reasoning process.

Very impressive is the change in the area Kings Cross in London. The history of the area around Kings Cross is much facetted. It begins with the Fleet River and a small settlement, which sprang up at a place known as Battle Bridge. Some of the earliest enterprises in the area were the spas, which developed around its springs, becoming fashionable resorts in the eighteeth century.

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as we can imagine. Finally, everybody has to handle change by one-self as this is the essence of live. Change exceeds even death because a dead creature changes in its structure thus becoming part of the cycle of live. The fear to be faced change seems to be part of human being as each change means rearrangement from habit, respectively from the feeling of security, even the security may be a fake.

By the early nineteen century Battle Bridge had become a depress-ing place. It was low lying and subject flooding. The Regent`s Canal opened in 1820, attraced other industries such as gas works. A new statue of George the fourth, built in the middle of the road junction gave the area a new name-Kings Cross.

Change forces the individual to reconsider itself and towards its posi-tion within society. Simultaneously, change forces the individual to adapt to something new. In this process one is alone, because nobody else can determine how to decide. The arrival of King`s Cross Station in 1852 fol-lowed by St. Pancras in 1868 had an enormous impact on the area estab-lishing it as an entry point to London for visitors, immigrants and goods from the North. After surviving Second World War bombing the railways succumbed to post-war decline, particulary in goods traffic. Vast areas of sidings and warehouses became redudant and turned to wasteland.

Change can only work in connection with time. Without time, change is lost and not existing. This can be interpreted in different ways. For exam-ple, it is impossible that two things can change simultaneously in the same way at different time-points as the time in between has given experience. Further, change cannot be sensed without time. It would really not ex-ist. One cannot sow and harvest simultaneously as it needs the time in between to grow up or die. Kings Cross has suffered from years of ne-glect. It is noisy and chaotic yet visitors and residents look upon it with affection. It has some success stories. Euston Road is home to Camden Town Hall, the administrative centre of the Borough, and opposit is the prestigious new British Library. Next door, St. Pan-cras Chambers has been restored. St. Pancras International is open. Arguments have raged over how the 67 acres of disused goods yards should be developed but there is no doubt that this will once again bring enormous change to King`s Cross. Are its best days yet to come?

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The Shard, the Pizza-Slice, the Beehive and other metaphors When i first stepped into the bus from Angel to London Bridge, as soon as the driver pulled around the corner, my eyes caught sight of a pizza slice shaped building standing on its crust, that I instantly knew, had to be this ominous Shard that my article would revolve around. It is nearly im-possible to not see the Shard if you are driving towards it, even if the bus doesnt take the horizontally most direct way, you will see it popping up in between buildings, defining the skyline and hovering over treetops. En-vision that one really tall kid in primary school that even overshadowed the teacher by the size of an ogres head on the picture of your class. That kid, he’s the Shard.

Even if you are facing the opposite direction, you will feel its presence or see it through the rear view window of the bus or some other sort of reflecting surface and you seem unable to shake off the feeling, that it is not you who observes it, but that it is the Shard, watching you. The obvi-ous fantasy analogy soon was burnt into my mind and with my camera (that I named Samwise for the sake of nourishing my imagination) I was on my way. Not to destroy a piece of jewellery crafted by pointy-eared mythical creatures, but to observe, take notes, do drawings and take pic-tures. To be fair, my journey with the London Transport system was more comfortable than Frodos Trilogy long Trip, but it was a bumpy ride nev-ertheless. I even had a fellowship in form of other members of the class, that provided me with pictures of the Shard from their respective places.

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Now to some facts that I’ve gathered throughout my two weeks in London. Our enormous pizza slice made of glass was designed by the renowned architect Renzo Piano for the Sellar Property Group. This 310 metre tall monument of change is one of the major milestones toward the regeneration programme planned for the London Bridge area. It will in-clude offices for up to 12‘000 workers; restaurants, where only the most accomplished chefs will serve their food (maybe even the second break-fast, because it’s the best breakfast); a five star hotel with over 200 rooms; close to 6000 square metres of residential space and an observation deck, that was evidently inhabited by a fox (during construction) that had to be evacuated and resettled.

The 87-storey high Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom and one of the tallest in the whole of Europe and it has a total of 111‘400 square metres of floor space.

The construction (in form of site preparations and the signing of the contract) began in early 2009, after the demolition of the Southwark Towers in April 2008, that had been there beforehand. The pictures in this article were taken between the 31st of August and the 14th of Sep-tember 2012, just when the Shard was getting its last finishing touches.

But around our beehive that is the Shard are a few more construction sites with countless worker bees swarming among the other creatures that inhabit this truly changing area.

Lastly, i wanted to mention an interesting titbit. In July 2011, Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, published a plan called the London View Management Framework. It is designed to protect the view of certain buildings and urban spaces of historical value from different locations and also provides guidelines concerning the construction of new build-ings. Because of those regulations, the Shard would nearly not have been able to be built. But in the end, and that’s the somewhat ironic part, the Shard has itself become a building mentioned in this View Management Framework Plan.

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Regent’s Canal Gianni Fabris

Everything started in the centre of London. Fleet Street was the lo-cation of the whole printing business. On the basis of there not being enough money for the workers, they then went on strike but it produced no reaction from the government. All these newspaper printers then moved on to the Isle of Dogs. The docklands was used for warehouse and trade containers; an old industry with rain, dust and steam. But be-fore, that there was only marshland with wild dogs. The Thames makes a curve in this area and so it makes it look like a peninsula. Today, like a fort, there is a complex of business buildings for banks and first class people. Margaret Thatcher was a British politician, the longest-serving (1979-1990) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century, and the only woman ever to have held the post. She offered in the time

of economic crisis, these properties for free taxes. All these towers ap-peared almost overnight but without any streets! That’s because no-body knew how long this promise of these free premises would hold out. So today there is just asphalt around there, just one main street on the right side by the river and the option to take with the DLR a short, but amazing, sightseeing tour through those canyons made out of steel, stone and glass. An isolated, silent and cold atmosphere between all of those towers makes irritates strangers. You can’t reach the high-est floor because of the security there is for these hard workers. Why do they work there? Is their motivation to have a proper better life than other humans? They are living in similar buildings to those they work in. It’s now like a factory without being recognised as such. Only numbers on display and words for things we know. Get access to this system and give your self to the whole world. We need every person! Thousands rooms with the same furniture, same suits, same words, same target and a view onto another building where one’s own is re-flected. Rivalry makes for evolution and a monopoly stops any chang-es. The towers are like giant brothers, each with the dream of being the best functioning one. Just want to make dad proud. Skyscrapers have the chance to have a certain importance. Monuments for living gods? Everyone started in school to collect dreams about what they wanted to be in the future. But the teachers suppressed all the children into a crowd so that they can be a part of the system. That’s the reason why so many teenagers get depressed or say “fuck the system”. But fewer have those feelings for their whole life. Just at the time when the parents won’t pay for them anymore. So does the circle close by it self? Everyone has to work and everybody wants to gain as money as possible for the least effort. It’s like the American Way of life: faster, cheaper and more than before. USA is just like a grandchild who has come back with this strange energy, and tell us what we should do in the future, that is already happening now. But the differences create the distances between people. Criminality is made by the law, which was built by those who have the money. The police sirens just confirm the system is running. But how long?

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At the beginning of our journey along the Regent‘s Canal, I was surprised by the contrast of this area to the rest of the city. You are surrouned by people, cars and buildings. As soon as you reach the first step down to the canal, it suddenly got‘s quiet. At first you notice the houseboats that are neatly arranged along one side of the canal. be almost fairytale-like space is protected from noise by century old trees and buildings.

At first glance it seems like the houseboats would just lie on a field of grass in a straight line, until you discover that the water is covered by a thick layer of al-

gae. bis layer that’s covered by garbage and smothered with dirt al-most doesn‘t move at all. A vast variety of

animals and other organisms share this habitat with the house-boat‘s owners. brough the trees you can see a load of old brick hous-es that all look the same. This idyllic picture goes on for a big part of the route, as if it would repeat itself over and over. But aer a time, the houses get more modern and there are fewer trees. Along the ca-nal, there more and more bars and restaurants pop up and in the background, there are big blockhouses with countless numbers of in-

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habitants. But near the water it stays calm. From a far, you see the huge buildings of the banks. But the houses near the canal are quite industrial looking and are maybe some sort of studios, workshops and the before mentioned house blocks. From time to time, the path along the canal re-sembles a wildlife resort, where you can see a lot of different animals (that are described on boards). be sewer ports disrupt the calm path of the water. be region gets more and more modern and busy with joggers and cyclists that want to keep themselves healthy. At the end of our journey, the canal flows into the bames and you find yourself in the business part of the area with masses of peopleand expensive restaurants.

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The buildings from London are very old and I dont like it. If I go back to Pakistan and tell the people that I live in London they say: “OH, London is so beautiful, I would love to live there.” But when you came here to Stratford, its not. First I would change the buildings or maybe just decorate. And then I would look that everyone love to go to work. There are so many men they are depressive because of the work.RayaWorks in the Inshop and sells vegetables

I love London, there is nothing I would like to changeJohn Lennon Bookbinder

I would give the tickets for the Olypmics to everyone who lives in the East. I couldn‘t find any of them, this is the darkside of the Olympics. We heard the people screaming and having fun, but we couldn‘t see them. That was really annoying! However, a lot of things are working well here in London.Regis Tosetti Graphic Designer

We would change the same, not so many tourists. We live in Camden, near Camden town. And in the last 10 years the tourism increased.

Lola & MatthewShopkeepers

We would change the same, not so many tourists. We live in Camden, near Camden town. And in the last 10 years the tourism increased.

Lola & MatthewShopkeepers

I would take all Jews out of the city. Hitler was right about these bloodsuckers. They own 90% of the houses here and they want more money every year.Halal butcher from Kashmir

The tube is too expensive. I would make it cheaper.Carmen Floristin

Keep the Niggers out! No just a joke. But except the weather it’s hard to say. I think you could ask everybody who is living in London and everyone would say: Nothing! And that’s the problem. It changes too much too fast. We can’t say we don’t want all this shit. And from where do they have all this fucking money? I’m from south London and get money just for being unemployed. I can smoke shit and drink cider the whole day. I’m 25 and have no more to work. What do I want more? Damn, you’re a really good drawer!

We want change the major of London, Boris Johnson. London should be more like Geneva. The traffic should be better for pedes-trians and cyclists. The cars, busses and motorcycles should running trough a different place. There are to many cars anyway. What I really like in London, is that there are many green places.Prof. Doc. One & Prof. Doc. TwoProfessors

We would`t change very much. Maybe the tube should be cheaper. Oh yes, and it would be great if the people would be cleaner on the roads. It makes me sad, when everything everywhere stinks. More trees and flowers would be great too.

Alan & Neshir Shopkeepers

I would introduce the mandatory helmet use for cyclists KevinPolice officer

I would change the school system. It`s not so good here.Ahmad from Somalia, 41 years oldElectrician

I don`t like when people are so nasty and when they steal so much. These things I would change.Mark from London, 65 years old Pensioner

I would change the salary of the train cleaners. Because that‘s what we fight for here. We get paid 9 pound each day! There‘s no way to live like this. I got a family and a home to pay for. ISS is a worldwide company which earns billions of dollars each year.I work now 15 years for this company and they have never changed anything.Anonymous, 35 years oldTrain Cleaner

I would change the laziness of the people. People in my age or even younger refuse to work, but everybody should work! If you go to school, then do your homework, that’s work, if you’re a boxer, then train every day, that’s work and if you’re a writer then write, that’s work! How can change happen when everybody is lazy?MakabiusCollector and shopkeeper from Jamaica

I won’t change anything except keeping the streets clean and safe. I lived in a lot of places around London and in London, but Deptford is my favourite place. Ob-viously I’m sad about all the pubs that closed round here. Deptford ist he best place. I love it.Lilian, 26Works in The Birds Nest and sings in a band. From Poland but born in London, lives in Deptford

I would like more transport to West London because it is hard to get there!AustinBookbinder

I think a lot of our environmen-tal charities have become very much focused on what people want to hear. We do nice things like activities for children, we do nice things here and there and these are all fun. But we are not tracking the real issues that are happening around us, like we are losing plants that have been here for hundreds of years and we are destroying habitats and stuff like that. I think it›s important for people to realize what happens around them in the environment and not just close their eyes and assume everything is a happy little club, and actually take things seriously and see how we can improve on things.Bettina KabutzWorks in the Creek Discovery Centre

The buildings from London are very old and I dont like it. If I go back to Pakistan and tell the people that I live in London they say: “OH, London is so beautiful, I would love to live there.” But when you came here to Stratford, its not. First I would change the buildings or maybe just decorate. And then I would look that everyone love to go to work. There are so many men they are depressive because of the work.