Bubblicious
On 28 September 2002 girls from the Young Black Women’s Group used the bubble to reclaim Thornhill Park in Islington, North London.
Bubblicious was part of the Architecture Foundation’s workshop Crossing Boundaries in the Kings Cross area of North London. The workshop aimed at gaining insight into the fabric of the area through creative thinking and local knowledge, at engaging people in thinking about their local urban environment and at testing new ways of involving people in the urban design process. The Young Black Women’s group, a diverse group of girls from North London, aged between 10 and 19 years old are based in the Crumbles Castle, a children’s and youth centre at the heart of the Kings Cross area.
The girls could dispose of the bubble for one day to show their R&B act in an unusual place, but they had to come up with the most relevant location and a title for their act. During an afternoon workshop they investigated five sites, and decided to go for Thornhill Park; a more gentrified area on the other side of Caledonian Road. The girls brought their own audience from their side of the neighbourhood, but also found the people from Thornhill Park in their audience.
Bubblicious brought the R&B dance act under the attention of the nearby international dance centre, which gained some of the girls the opportunity to participate in an initiation there.
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