Art for Kidbrooke

Docklands Community Poster Project

1980-1990

People/groups

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

Loraine Leeson and Peter Dunn

Tenants from the Docklands

Local Trade Unions

Location

Docklands, London

In the Docklands during the 80’s started a process of re-developing the area, that were not only docks and warehouses, was also home and workplace to 56,000 people. It was a classic top-down regeneration project in deprived areas that did not take into account people’s life and desires.
The artists were already working closely with local trades unions and were approached to produce a poster to inform local people about the regeneration process. What started as a process of consultation and information ended up in a bigger poster were the community could display their proposals, document the process, promote their campaigns and look at key issues such as housing. From this point community started to organize themselves to face this process and be able to participate form it and made their voices heard. The artists helped them to organize creating a steering committee that met regularly to report on local developments and agreed issues.