Young budding architects of Milton Keynes were invited to join Architecture For All on 18th January 2020 for a day of making, led by the thoughts and ideas of community organisation Global Outreach Foundation MK on their home city.
The day was a culmination of several workshops in November and December 2019 – discussing and sharing views on and responding creatively to MK’s founding principles of design with Global Outreach’s members. With heritages from several different African nations (including Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and South Africa), they debated the relevance of new towns, garden cities and Western modernist housing projects’ assumptions for the citizen of 21st Century, and for those with a diverse heritage, living in a multi ethnic society.
The concept of ubuntu – where everyone takes their place in the circle – seemed more appropriate as a model of contemporary living than the rectilinear prospects of old; hence no corners here.
All photographs by Charlotte Levy.
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