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1000 New Cooperative Homes for Lambeth: A practical guide for transforming the London suburbs into a new cooperative utopia

Part 2 Project 2016
Georgie Day
 University of Cambridge | UK
Parasitic on the radical energy created by the capitalist transformation of London, new housing cooperatives bleed into the suburbs, pioneering new forms of anarcho-communist urban-living. Employing the architectural languages of generosity, exoticism, collage and DIY, the first of these (Streatham Vale Cooperative) is an urban oasis leading revolution through creation rather than resistance. The project is an open-source how-to-guide and a call to arms. It is being tested against ‘reality’.



Tutor(s)
Ingrid Schröder
2016
Another way to give Lambeths its ‘1000 new homes’ (2014 manifesto pledge) All bases Lambeth and Google Earth. List of Lambeth’s built assets acquired through a Freedom of Information Request.
Housing struggles past <<<<< Housing struggles present >>>>>> Additional images supplied by collaborators the Mayday Rooms Archive, 56A bookshop, Concrete Action website and with the help of ASH (Architects for Social Housing).
Oikos = Polis: Experiments in housing past and present Additional images sourced from the Mayday Rooms Archive.
A cooperative revolution! Additional images sourced from the Mayday Rooms Archive.
The Lambeth periphery & Streatham Vale Base from Bing maps.
The magic and malign of suburbia Comedy images from You-tube stills.
Augmented suburbia – inhabiting pebble dashed sheds Shed images from B&Q.
Creating more by sharing: Test case 3 homes Base tippex images from Zoopla.
Incremental transformation
Even more by sharing more: Cooperative utopia on the London periphery?
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