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The Lockdown Space collection invited people to submit observations on how their home environment had changed during lockdown.

Domestic spaces became extraordinary through the way in which people had to rapidly re-imagine their homes. The Lockdown Space collection documents these unusual temporary and ‘in-between’ liminal spaces. The domestic home became the place where we work, socialise, exercise, learn, create, entertain, play, celebrate and escape.

Originally commissioned as part of the Tate Exchange programme at the Tate Modern (July 2021). This project is in collaboration with Pete Maloney.

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Collectarium Lock Down Mask

Design Activity 01: Lockdown Space

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Collectarium Lockdown Space: Sharing domestic transformations and innovations for pandemics.

Paper presented at the Urban Assemblage: The City as Architecture, Media, AI + Big Data conference, June 2021. As part of (AMPS) Architecture, Media, Politics + Society at the University of Hertfordshire.

This project is in collaboration with Pete Maloney.


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Now Play This 2024 at Somerset House April 6-14 2024

Now Play This celebrates its first decade of exploring games and playfulness by highlighting the creative power and ubiquity of play.

It is a call to reconsider our understanding of play and games and their relationship to our everyday lives and to other artforms.

Guardian Now Play This

Now Play This 2024 Review
The Observer by Simon Parkin
04 April 2024

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For the festival we selected 3 contributions from our Lockdown Space Collection and created participatory activities responding to the festivals theme of “Liminality: Playing between worlds” - an invitation to think of PLAY as a place both for introspection and connection.

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Indoor Hopscotch

The Lockdown Space Collection was a project we did in 2021 which invited people to submit observations on how their home environment had changed during lockdown. See our main Lockdown Space Collection page.



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Indoor Hopscotch

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Pineapple Dance

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Pineapple Dance


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Stair Slide

Curator Luján Oulton, Lead producer Nick Murray, Assistant producer, Susie Buchan & Tech Lead Jo Summers.

This project is in collaboration with Pete Maloney.


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