Brixton Flea Market Re-Imagined For Socially Conscious Organizations
Brixton is commonly known as one of London’s more impoverished neighborhoods as well as one of its most creative. Filled with numerous squats, the creative inventiveness of this community continues to astound us. We recently documented the invention of the Brixton pound, an alternative community currency introduced to stimulate economic trade in the local area. Now, Brixton is taking on redeveloping its local flea market.
For those of you who aren’t Londoners, almost every neighborhood has a weekly local market that seems to codify the flavour of the locals. Previously, Brixton’s market had stood empty for some time. However, Space Makers Agency has now stepped in to save the market, and is working with local community authorities to re-develop the space by allowing artists and community organizations to have free rent of stalls for three months.
[via: Treehugger]
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Lisa Baldini is a regular contributor to PSFK.com. As a student of Graham Harwood, Luciana Parisi, and Matthew Fuller, Lisa's interest in technology lies in how culture is changed from the bottom up through history, materiality, databases, user experience, and affective computing. A student of social media marketing, she sees how people try to engage consumers through technology and how much failure is at hand by misunderstanding the medium. A teacher at heart, she writes and curates in an effort to link the knowledge derived between the academic, art, and business worlds.
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| TOPICS: | Arts & Culture, Environmental / Green, Retail, Work & Business |
| TAGS: | brixton, flea markets, gentrification, local markets, london, pound |
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