Day 86 of the 100 Day Studio: Altab Ali Park in Whitechapel was renamed in memory of a Bangladeshi textile worker killed in a racist attack in 1978. Historically it was the site of the Church of St Mary Matfelon, first built of white chalk rubble (so giving Whitechapel its name) in the C13th, with subsequent rebuildings up to the 1870s. With Whitechapel being a crucible of migration through the centuries, this is a public space with overlapping and complex meanings. In 2011 MUF Architecture/Art renovated the park and sought to create a public space that resonates with the multiple social and historical narratives of the locality. In this session Katherine Clarke and Liza Fior of MUF discuss the background to the project and their ideas about the role of public space and social memory. Shahed Saleem is the founding director of Makespace.
100 DAY STUDIO
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