Mesh Workshop

Helping collectively craft shared urban spaces. Mesh is a creative that uses design, architecture and participation to facilitate, enable and empower others. We see design as a part of a wider on-going and holistic process where the engagement of all those potentially connected to a space is celebrated through early inclusion. Here the emphasis is on helping to develop existing programmes rather than simply seeing engagement as a formality, as it is often treated in the traditional top-down pre-determined planning process. In a world of emerging economies, urbanisation, dwindling resources and a growing sharing culture, online platforms are evolving the role of architects in an exciting direction, moving beyond form into spatial entrepreneurs who capitalise on the social and physical fabric that already exists, enabling hidden value to surface. After launching the Peckham Coal Line in 2015 Mesh was shortlisted for the constructing communities competition and in 2017 won the London Planning awards for best community project. Today our co-operative collective is part of Mayor of London’s Special Assistance Team engaging in a wide range of small and medium scale transformation projects around the capital.