Regent’s Place Urban Campsite and Milkfloat
A nomadic green space around Euston, now closed
A movable space
Our nomadic classroom, urban campsite and repurposed 1950’s Leyland milk float provided temporary community spaces around Euston between 2018 and 2020.
Tents, scaffold board planters and even a pop-up parklet appeared, moved and reappeared at various temporarily empty sites as the land was gradually redeveloped.
They started at 20 Triton Street in a former art exhibition space, then moved to the Old Diorama Art Centre, and finally finished their journey at 184 Drummond Street.
Making the spaces
Regular nature connection and social action workshops with local schools and community groups, young leadership programmes, photography exhibitions, winter markets and seasonal events all took place. The spaces were transformed into magical places for learning, cooking, storytelling, and growing. Hay bales and a bell tent allowed us to blur views of steel beams into oak trees and overhead lighting into moon and starlight. Planters were soon spilling over with luscious greenery from kitchen herbs to Victoria plum trees.
Local partnerships included an invitation by British Land and Lendlease to improve sustainability and wellbeing on site and hold them to a commitment to connect the campus more actively with the wider community.
The sites are now closed, but the milk float in its refurbished, bright orange, glory now sits in the Story Garden.
