EVERYTHING
There was a lot of City Now City Future. Here’s a list of everything that we did, displayed or published during our year-long season. We would like to offer our warmest thanks to everyone we worked with, and everybody who participated in the season.
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Exhibitions and displays
Event listings
Sponsors
Partners and contributors
Articles
Films
Publications
Visitor numbers
EXHIBITIONS & DISPLAYS
Here & Now
28 April – 15 October 2017
My Point Forward
18 May – 24 September 2017
Magnum Live Lab
19 May – 14 July 2017
Lady Lucy: portraits for Services, Gifts and Favours
18 June – 18 July 2017
Junk
30 June – 1 October 2017
Time to Play
7 July – 31 August 2017
The City is Ours
14 July 2017 – 2 January 2018
Pulse
14 July 2017 – 15 April 2018
(Un)Common Currency
6 October 2017 – 2 January 2018
Bonus Levels
7 October 2017 – 2 January 2018
Low Emissions Neighbourhood Garden
20 October 2017 – 20 August 2018
Imagined Futures
21 October 2017 – 22 April 2018
London Visions
19 January – 15 April 2018
Fatberg!
9 February – 1 July 2018
Voice Over Finsbury Park
16 February – 15 April 2018
EVENTS
Festivals & late openings
This is Our London: Late Launch: 19 May 2017
Royal College of Art: Are You Ready? late: 17 June 2017
The Festival of Radical Fun: 7 October 2017
Archikids Family Festival: 22 and 23 July 2017
Celebrate Your City Family Festival: 11 and 12 November 2017
Our Future City Young People’s Festival: 17 March 2018
Horrible Histories celebrates Fatberg!: 18 March 2018
The London Salons
Memory: 13 June 2017
Emotion: 11 July 2017
Playing Out: 8 August 2017
Protest: 12 September 2017
Edgelands: 10 October 2017
Cultural Infrastructure: 14 November 2017
Aftershocks: 12 December 2017
Queer Nights: 12 February 2018
Wearable Resistance: 13 March 2018
Counterculture: 10 April 2018
Futureshocks
Human: 25 January 2018
Systems: 21 February 2018
Civic: 21 March 2018
Magnum Live Lab
In Conversation: 20 June 2017
Video Games talks
Women in Digital Worlds: 19 February 2018
Companion: A series of walks in partnership with UP Projects for London Festival of Architecture
Huw Lemmey: 11 June 2017
Rosanna McLaughlin: 18 June 2017
Alexei & Katie Schwab: 25 June 2017
London Initiatives
Repowering London: 20 July 2017
Guerrilla Gardening: 27 July 2017
Grow Up: 3 August 2017
FoodCycle: 10 August 2017
Living Streets: 17 August 2017
OrganicLea: 24 August 2017
Hanwell and Norwood Green Orchard Trail: 31 August 2017
GoodGym: 7 September 2017
Wrap Up London: 14 September 2017
Living Under One Sun: 21 September 2017
Copper Lane: 28 September 2017
Wayfindr: 12 October 2017
Citizen Sense ‘Dustbox’: 19 October 2017
London Cycling Campaign: 26 October 2017
Growing Communities: 2 November 2017
Thames Warren Footpath Lighting Project: 9 September 2017
Company Drinks, London Urban Herbal: 7 October 2017
Kingston Pound: 16 November 2017
Centre for Sustainable Fashion: 23 November 2017
CARAS: 30 November 2017
Safer London: 7 December 2017
Open Data Camden: 14 December 2017
Hack It Workshops
Rebel Gardening: 24 June 2017
Build a Bee Hotel: 22 July 2017
Grow Your Own Food: 26 August 2017
Urban Foraging: 16 September 2017
Pickling and Preserving: 2 November 2017
Schools & Families programmes
Year 7 Music Study Day: 8 June 2017
Debating Matters: 1 & 2 July 2017
International Baccalaureate student conference: 9 August 2017
WIRED Next Generation event: 4 November 2017
Teachmeet at the Royal Geographical Society: 20 November 2017
City Today half term activities: 10 – 18 February 2018
City Future Easter holiday activities: 31 March – 15 April 2018
The City is Ours Access Tours
Helping Host: 19 July 2017
Audio Described: 16 August & 20 November 2017
British Sign Language: 14 October & 25 November 2017
Capital Arts: 20 November 2017
Subtitled: 13 December 2017
SPONSORS
City Now City Future season
Sponsored by:
Supported by:
Events and displays
Futureshocks
In partnership with:
The London Salons
Media partner:
Family Festivals
Media partner:
PARTNERS & CONTRIBUTORS
Aaron Winter, Criminologist, Research Labs
Abigail Conway, Designer, Satellites, for Culture Mile Weekend (March 2018)
Adam Greenfield, Curator, Future Shocks series
Adam Kaasa, Theatrum Mundi / RCA, Contributor, London Case Study Films, Cultural Infrastructure Salon
Adam Thorpe, Vexclubed Generation, Contributor, Wearable Resistance Salon
Adisa Ezeocha, Spoken word artist, Research Labs / Our Future City
African Community School, School partner, Research Labs
Aimee Meredith Cox, Contributor, Futureshocks talks
Alan Marshall, Artist, London Visions
Alex Vasudevan, Contributor, Protest Salon
Alexei Schwab, Future of London, Contributor, Companion walks
Alison Benjamin, Urban Bees, Contributor, Hack It
Alison Powell, LSE, Contributor, Futureshocks talks
Amanda Gregor, Peckham Coal line, Contributor, Future Cities talk, Clerkenwell Design Week
Anab Jain, Contributor, Futureshocks talks
Andy Field, Artist, Satellites, for Culture Mile Weekend (March 2018)
Anna Minton, Contributor, Protest Salon
Argent Energy, Partner, Fatberg!
Arts Council, Funder,
Asif Khan, Judge, An Idea for a Future London open call
Asif Khan Studio, Contributor, Archikids Family Festival
Assemble, Contributor, Cultural Infrastructure salon
Barbican, Partner, Co-commissioner, Satellites for Culture Mile weekend
Barry Sykes, Contributor, Festival of Radical Fun
Beatrice Pembroke, British Council, Judge, An Idea for a Future London open call
Beckton Sewage Works, Partner, Fatberg!
Ben Adams, Ben Adams Architects, Contributor, Future Cities talk, Clerkenwell Design Week
Ben Judah, Contributor, Memory Salon
Birmingham Stage Company, Contributor, Culture Mile Weekend (Horrible Histories)
Blast Theory, Artists, My Point Forward
Block Works, Contributor, Archikids Family Festival
Bloomberg, Partner and Season Sponsor, CNCF season and keynote debate
Blue Canarinho, Contributor, Our Future City
Bradley Garrett, Contributor, Discover article
Brian Dillon, Contributor, Are You Ready?
Bright Bricks, Contributor, Archikids Family Festival
CARAS, Initiative, London Case Study
Carlos Jiminez, Filmmaker, This is Our London launch late
Caroline Edwards, Curator, Imagined Futures rotunda display
Castle Climbing Centre garden, Picking site, London Urban Herbal drink
Central Saint Martins, Partner, Internship, Research Labs
Centre for Sustainable Fashion (London College of Fashion), Initiative, London Case Study
Chardine Taylor-Stone, Contributor, Queer Night Scenes Salon & Counterculture Salon
Charlotte Campbell, Contributor, Our Future City
Chigi Patel, Central Saint Martins internship programme, Evaluator, Research Labs
Chocolate Films, Filmmaker, London Case Study
Chris Bailey / Our Future City, Contributor, Own Your City Supplementary Schools festival Nov 2017
Chris Michael, Guardian Cities, Contributor, Futureshocks talks
Citizen Sense, Goldsmiths, Content Partner, LEN Urban Garden / London Case Study initiative / OpenFest workshop
City of London Corporation, Funder, Archikids Family Festival / LEN Urban Garden
City of London Police museum, Site visit partner, Research Labs
City of London School for Girls, Partner, Year 7 Music study day
Clerkenwell Design Week, Partner,
Collage Club, Contributor, Playing Out Salon
Company Drinks, Partner, London Urban Herbal drink / Festival of Radical Fun / Edgelands
Coney, Contributor, Celebrate Your City Family Festival
Copper Lane Project, Initiative, London Case Study
Cranfield Water Science Institute, Partner, Fatberg!
Create London, Partner, This is Our London launch late
Culture Mile, Partner, Archikids Family Festival / LEN Urban Garden / Culture Mile weekend
CUT Festival, Contributor, This is Our London launch late
Daisy Froud, Curator & Contributor, Research Labs / Futureshocks talks
Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, Picking site, London Urban Herbal drink
David Allsop, Contributor, Own Your City Supplementary Schools festival Nov 2017
Dave Swindells, Contributor, Counterculture Salon
Debbie Guneratne, Contributor, Own Your City Supplementary Schools festival Nov 2017
Disco Loco, Contributor, Festival of Radical Fun
DJ Pinty, Curator, Reprezent Radio, This is Our London launch late
DLA Piper, Season Sponsor and Partner, CNCF season and Future Shocks series
Dr Sharon Husbands, Contributor, Queer Night Scenes Salon
DSDHA Architects, Contributor, Cultural Infrastructure salon
Eastbrookend Country Park, Picking site, London Urban Herbal drink
EC Lighthouse, Supplementary School, Own Your City Supplementary Schools festival Nov 2017 / Our Future City
Edwina Attlee, Bartlett, Contributor, Playing Out Salon
Egmont and Sanrio, Contributor, April 2018 Half Term – Little Miss Inventor
Eidos Montreal, Video Game Developers, London Visions
Emilie Giles, Contributor, Our Future City
Emily Pope, Contributor, Companion walks
Euan Mills, Future Cities Catapult / London Case Study films, Contributor, Future Cities talk, Clerkenwell Design Week
Europa, Contributor, Festival of Radical Fun
Factory Fifteen, Artists, London Visions
Fallen Women, Contributor, Festival of Radical Fun
Fan Sissoko, Artist, Open call shortlist
Fashion Space Gallery (London College Fashion), Partner, Wearable Resistance Salon
Finn Williams, GLA, Judge, An Idea for a Future London open call
FoodCycle, Initiative, London Case Study/secondary school film
Fozia Ismail, Arawelo Eats, Research Labs
Francesca Perry, Contributor, Discover article
Friends of the Joiners Arms, Contributor, Queer Night Scenes Salon
Furtherfield Gallery, Artist / Content Partner, An Idea for a Future London open call
Gaika, Contributor, Wearable Resistance Salon
Gal-Dem, Contributor, Festival of Radical Fun
GoodGym, Initiative, London Case Study
Greta Byrum, New America, Contributor, Futureshocks talks
Grow Elephant, Content Partner, LEN Urban Garden
Growing Communities, Initiative, London Case Study
Growing Communities Dagenham Farm, Picking site, London Urban Herbal drink
GrowUp, Initiative, London Case Study
Guardian, Media Partner, Future Shocks series
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Partner, Satellites, for Culture Mile Weekend (March 2018)
Hanwell Orchard Trail, Initiative, London Case Study
Heather Phillipson, Judge, An Idea for a Future London open call
Helen Nisbet, Curator, Companion walks
Hester Chillingworth, Contributor, This is Our London launch late
Holly Gramazio, Matheson Marcault, Contributor, Playing Out Salon
Horrible Histories, Content Partner, Culture Mile Weekend
Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, Contributor, Festival of Radical Fun
Huw Lemmey, Contributor, Companion walks
Ian Sample, Contributor, Futureshocks talks
Insitute of Ideas, School partner, Secondary school activity
James Drury, Journalist, London’s future… Discover
Janette Parris, Artist, Open call shortlist
Jasleen Kaur, Contributor, This is Our London launch late
Jay Bernard, Contributor, Emotion Salon
Jes Fernie, Curator, Memory Salon
Jo Wilson, Future of London, Contributor, London Case Study Films
John Grindrod, Contributor, Edgelands Salon
John Rensten, Forage London, Contributor, Hack It
John Wild, Contributor, Are You Ready?
Jon Beck, MyMiniFactory & iMakr, Contributor, Clerkenwell Makers walks
Jon Dumitrescu, Artist, London Visions
Jonn Elledge, Editor, City Metric, London’s future… Discover
Julia King, Artist, Open call shortlist
Julian Harrap, Contributor, Archikids Family Festival
Julie Riehl, Capital Growth, Contributor, Hack It
Juneau Projects, Contributor, Festival of Radical Fun
Katherine Angel, Contributor, Emotion Salon
Katherine Leedale, Contributor, Our Future City
Kathrin Bohm, Contributor, Edgelands Salon & London Urban Herbal drink
Katie Davies, Photographer, This is Our London launch late
Katie Gonzalez Bell, Evaluator, Research Labs and Young Commissioners
Katie Schwab, Curator, Companion walks
Kayo Chingonyi, Contributor, Are You Ready?
Ken Worpole, Contributor, Edgelands salon
Kim Stoddart, Contributor, Hack It
Kings College London, School partner, Secondary school activity
King’s Cross Skip Garden, Picking site, London Urban Herbal drink
Kingston Pound, Initiative, London Case Study
Kris Turnbull, Contributor, Own Your City Supplementary Schools festival Nov 2017 and Young Commissioners project
Kylee Newton, Newton & Pott, Contributor, Hack It
Lady Lucy, Artist, Lady Lucy: Portraits for Services, Gifts and Favours
Laura Brosnan, Contributor, Counterculture Salon
Lauren Elkin, Contributor, Protest Salon
Lawrence Lek, Artist, Bonus Levels, London Visions
Levent Kerrimol, GLA, Contributor, London Case Study Films
Liam Young, Contributor & Artist, Futureshocks talks / London Visions Display
Ling Tan, AI expert, Research Labs
Little Inventors, Content Partner, Archikids Family Festival
Living Streets, Initiative, London Case Study/secondary school film
Living Under One Sun, Initiative, London Case Study
LivingMaps, Curator, Aftershocks Salon
Liza Fior, muf architecture, Contributor, Memory Salon
London Cycling Campaign, Initiative, London Case Study/secondary school film
London Design Festival, Partner, Video Games talks
London Festival of Architecture, Partner,
London Play, Charity, Time to Play showspace display
Londonist, Media Partner, Family Festivals, Launch late
Low Emissions Neighbourhood, Curator / Producer, LEN Urban Garden
Magnum, Partner, Magnum commission and talk
Marion Shoard, Contributor, Edgelands salon
Matt Adams, Contributor, Playing Out Salon
Mazi Mas, Contributor, This is Our London launch late
Megan Nolan, Contributor, Emotion Salon
Melle Brown, Contributor, Our Future City
Mike Berlin, Contributor, London Visions
Morgaine Gaye, Contributor, London Case Study Films
Mosaic Films, Film maker, Secondary school film
Museum Freecycle, Initiative, London Case Study
Neil Arud, Invesitgative Journalist, Research Labs
Niall McDiarmid, Artist, Here and Now: London Portraits
Nina Manandhar, Contributor, This is Our London launch late
Oli Mould, Contributor, Protest Salon
OOMK Collective, Contributor, This is Our London launch late
Open City, Partner, Archikids Family Festival
Open Data Camden, Initiative, London Case Study
OrganicLea, Initiative, London Case Study
Pavegen, Initative, Secondary school film
Paul Richards, Contributor, Counterculture Salon
PC Russell Pengelly, Police Officer, Research Labs
Pete Collard, Curator, Foyer display research
Peut-Porter, Contributor, Wearable Resistance Salon
Phosphoros Theatre, Expert, Research Labs
Phytology, Picking site, London Urban Herbal drink
Princess Julia, Contributor, Counterculture Salon
Publica, Partner, Internship, Research Labs
Rachel Coldicutt, Contributor, Futureshocks talks
Raspberry Pi, Partner, Celebrate Your City Family Festival
Rebecca Ross, Central Saint Martins, Contributor, London Case Study Films
Repowering London, Initiative, London Case Study
Reprezent Radio, Partner, This is Our London launch late / Our Future City
Restart Party, Contributor, Festival of Radical Fun
Richard Reynolds, Initiative, London Case Study
Richard Young, Artist, London Visions
Roding Valley High, School partner, Research Labs
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Initiative, London Case Study
Rosanna McLaughlin, Contributor, Companion walks
Roundhouse films, Filmmaker, Research Labs
Royal College of Art / School of Architecture, Research partner, Fatberg!
Royal College of Art / Critical Writing & Critical Practice, Curator / Content Partner, Are You Ready?
Royal College of Physicians Garden, Picking site, London Urban Herbal drink
Ruby Cowling, Contributor, Memory Salon
Ruth Beale, Contributor & Artist, Festival of Radical Fun / open call shortlist
Ruth Calderwood, Air Quality Manager, City of London, London’s future… Discover
Safer London, Initiative, London Case Study
Sam Gayton, Contributor, ec lighthouse
Sara Hirsch, Contributor, Archikids Family Festival
Sarah Postlethwaite, Contributor, Wearable Resistance Salon
Sarah Turner, Contributor, Protest Salon
Scene Everything, Contributor & Artist, Festival of Radical Fun
Scriberia, Contributor, Our Future City
Shola Amoo, Contributor, Memory Salon
Shpresa Programme, Supplementary School, Young Commissioners project
Small Earth Domes, Initiative, London Case Study
Sonya Barber, Time Out, Contributor, Emotion Salon
Squint/Opera, Artists, London Visions
Stanton Williams, Contributor, Archikids Family Festival
Stepney City Farm, Picking site, London Urban Herbal drink
SURE Architecture, Architects, London Visions
Tekja, Artist, Pulse: Sackler Hall Ellipse Commission
Thames Warren Path smart lighting, Initiative, London Case Study
Thames Water, Partner, Fatberg!
The City Centre, Contributor, Archikids Family Festival
The Decorators, Contributor, Festival of Radical Fun
The Joy of Sets, Contributor, Festival of Radical Fun
The Quietus, Partner, Festival of Radical Fun
Theatrum Mundi, Curator, Cultural Infrastructure salon
Thirteen Ways, Co-Commissioner, An Idea for a Future London open call
Tiffany Watt Smith, Contributor, Emotion Salon
Time Out, Media Partner & Curator, Salon programme & Counterculture salon
Timo Arnall, Contributor, Futureshocks talks
Tom James, Contributor, Festival of Radical Fun
Tom Keeley, Curator & Contributor, Edgelands Salon / Festival of Radical Fun
Tony Sleep, Contributor, Counterculture Salon
Tower Bridge, Contributor, Celebrate Your City Family Festival
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, Picking site, London Urban Herbal drink
Travis Alabanza, Contributor, Queer Night Scenes Salon
Travis Elborough, Contributor, Are You Ready?
UCL Urbanlab, Partner, Curator, Artist, Urban Pamphleteer special edition / Queer Night Scenes salon / open call shortlist
Umbrellium, Artist, An Idea for a Future London open call
UP Projects, Partner, Companion walks
Usman Haque, Contributor, Futureshocks talks
Valence House Garden, Picking site, London Urban Herbal drink
Verusca Calabria, Contributor, Clerkenwell Makers walks
Victoria Jones, Contributor, Fatberg!
Virginia Nimarkoh, Artist, Open call shortlist
WAH Nails, Contributor, Festival of Radical Fun
Wayfindr, Initiative, London Case Study
We Made That, Contributor, Cultural Infrastructure salon
White Noise, Contributor, Playing Out Salon
Wrap Up London, Initiative, London Case Study
Youth Club, Contributor, Counterculture Salon
ARTICLES
Introducing the City Now City Future season
London Visions: what does your future London look like?
London’s population: 10 million in the city?
Why we’re exhibiting Fatberg, the Monster of Whitechapel
How we’re putting Fatberg on display
Magnum Live Lab: two weeks to photograph London
Magnum Live Lab: curating the look of London
Pulse: tracking Twitter & election emojis
A rubbish display: 2000 years of Junk
Made in London: the past and future of craft in the city
25 ways to fix the city: meet the London initiatives
Twelve Selves: love and loss in London
How to grow your own air quality garden
Taste not waste: 28 recipes to rescue food from the rubbish
Lady Lucy: portraits connecting people
FILMS
The City is Ours
London Case Study films, The City is Ours
London Now London Future
This is Our London, late launch
Fatberg!
Young People’s Research Labs findings
PUBLICATIONS
The Views of London: a behind the scenes exploration of VoiceOver Finsbury Park
By young people from Shpresa Programme
Urban Pamphleteer #7: LGBTQ+ Night-Time Spaces, Past, Present & Future
Produced as part of the Queer Night scenes London salon
The Festival of Radical Fun programme
Tom James, Editor
Citizen Sense
Jennifer Gabrys, Research Leader
Satellites booklet
Conceived by Andy Field
VISITOR NUMBERS
At least 161,394 people visited one of our City Now City Future events, exhibitions or activities.
Museum of London visitors
These are our estimates of how many people saw the free City Now City Future displays and exhibitions at London Wall. These numbers are based on overall visitor numbers, marketing surveys which ask visitors which displays they saw, and monitored entry to The City is Ours exhibition.
May – June 2017: 8,975 visitors saw one or more City Now City Future displays
July – December 2017: 73,247 visitors toured The City is Ours
January – March 2018: 57,265 visitors saw one or more City Now City Future displays
Festivals
This is Our London late launch event: 1121 attendees
Royal College of Art: Are You Ready? late: 84 attendees
The Festival of Radical Fun: 4361 attendees
Archikids family festival: 3774 attendees
Celebrate Your City family festival: 3894 attendees
Our Future City: 139 attendees
Events
The London Salons: 530 total attendees
Futureshocks: 252 total attendees
Magnum Live Lab in Conversation: 42 attendees
Companion walks: 60 total attendees
Women in virtual worlds talk: 99 attendees
Horrible Histories celebrates Fatberg!: 400 attendees
Workshops
Hack It workshops: 62 total participants
London Initiatives lunchtime sessions: 518 total participants
Schools & Families programmes
Year 7 Music Study Day: 98 visitors
Debating Matters: 185 visitors
International Baccalaureate student conference: 237 visitors
Teachmeet at the Royal Geographical Society: 40 attendees
WIRED Next Generation event: 50 attendees
City Today half term activities: 2226 visitors
City Future Easter holiday activities: 3735 visitors
The City is Ours Access Tours: 59 visitors