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This beautiful recycled plastic curtain made by R-Urban residents Sunny Jar as part of their Plastic Free Poplar project made an appearance at our recent sauna pop-up.
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The Teviot People’s Kitchen ran a wonderful Midsummer Fair on the 23rd June.
We had a great time with Community Sauna Baths with a pop-up weekend activities. A big thank you to CSB and everyone who came down!
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We’ve been working with Tower Hamlets on a programme of walks and activities in May. Join us for bug club walks - from foraging to pollinators and moss!
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R-Urban is back with a packed programme for 2024. Join us every Thursday for our regular green skills volunteering, which runs from 11am-1pm. There’s a free halal, vegetarian lunch for everyone who attends!
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R-Urban and Leaders in Community are really excited to now be part of the Breathe London community. We’ve installed a pollution monitoring node on site and are developing some programming connected to air quality. We’ve also installed a live audio stream of the site as part of the Locus Sonus network! In 2024, we’ll be spending some time exploring how sound and air quality data can work together.
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Our DIY cob tandoor is now up and running!
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We’re excited to be part of the Great Green Estate project. It asks what changes need to happen to make Poplar HARCA’s green spaces more climate resilient, community-led and sustainably managed. Find out more, and sign up to events here!
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R-Urban is hosting some workshops as part of a free AQA Level 1 Urban Growing Course in October 2023! Find out more by emailing chloe.johnston@poplarharca.co.uk
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Some courgettes, marrows and pumpkins harvested this summer at the Teviot Centre.
Our new solar dehydrator in action - preserving the glut of summer fruit and veg for the colder months.
Thanks to Nana Maiolini for this wonderful film of last year’s Climate Companions festival. A version of this film is used as our website homepage.
A handout from our recent computer building workshop with Edwin Mingard.
Our weekly volunteering sessions include a free lunch. Join us from 11am-1pm every Thursday.
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A hand-out from a recent herb propagating workshop as part of Climate Companions. Thanks Katrina!
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A clothing repair workshop with Sunnyjar
The Climate Companions programme for June and July 2023.
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A food smoking workshop in June 2023
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Our Spring 2023 Programme.
Building a new grey water system for our kitchen, May 2023
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A 1x1m square study by Emily Llumigusin an architecture student from CSM using situated drawing to learn from a community allotment in the R-Urban space and its interconnection to the neighbourhood of Teviot.
Building a new pond, March 2023
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Our regular volunteering sessions run on Thursdays from 11am-1pm - please join us!
This video tells the story of the wider R-Urban project.
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Samosa making workshop in Summer 2021.
In summer 2022 we hosted a two week festival of learning called Climate Companions. Check out the programme above.
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Mycelium and hemp block building tests from Climate Companions in September 2022. Photo by Marc Cowan.
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Until 2017 we were based in Hackney Wick. Our old website lives on and gives you a snapshot of what we were up to back then.
In 2022 we welcomed UAL Climate Studio to R-Urban, where we hosted a climate curriculum for recent graduates. As part of this we worked with Making for Change and two designers in residence Alisa Ruzavina and Hayley Caine, who developed an art/design/activist practice around natural dyes and growing, through an eco-feminist lens. Film by Nana Maiolini.
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In Summer 2019 we hosted the learning festival ‘Performing Togetherness’.
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Autumn radishes from the Teviot Centre garden.
Harvesting Pumpkin Seeds - workshop handout.
Back in 2021 Andy was interviewed to talk about our role as part of Wen’s JustFACT project.
Winter gardening tips from Katalin.
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Picking tomatoes at the Teviot Centre.
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Summer Harvest!
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Autumn Growing Checklist.