Community Ecosystems ︎SCREENING EVENT︎ 13 DEC ︎MOHAMMAD MAMAZI
Community Ecosystems ︎SCREENING EVENT︎ 13 DEC ︎MOHAMMAD MAMAZI
13 DEC 2025
14:00
2 Cygnet Square SE2 9FA
COMMUNITY ECOSYSTEMS
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MOHAMMAD NAMAZI
Community Ecosystems returns for the final event in the series. Building on previous sessions, Mohammad Namazi has curated a screening and panel discussion in association with TACO!
The event uses film as a shared space for reflection, connecting archival memory with the present moment, inviting audiences to think with the people and places affected by policies often promoted through the promise of the future city and new homes. Presented films move between testimony and form, allowing poetry, humour and documentary evidence to sit side by side.
Bringing together works from the LUX collection alongside films by artists engaged in housing activism, the selection spans different moments and methods to map a longer history of ongoing urban change. Films show attention to architecture as lived experience, perceived failures in housing policy, the impact of change on communities, or the contested nature of spaces and places. A panel discussion after the screening will combine current perspectives with the chance to hear first-hand stories from some of the filmmakers in the programme.
Films shown include
Rhea Storr, Okay Keskidee! Let Me See Inside (2025), 19 min
John Smith, Blight (1996), 16 min
Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Polly II: Plan for a Revolution in Docklands (2006), 30 min
Emily Richardson, Block (2005), 12 min
Steven Ball & Rastko Novaković, Concrete Heart Land (2013), 25 min
Tom Keene, Database (e)State: Shadow Database (2020), 10 mi
Community Ecosystems is a community research project led and organised by artist Mohammad Namazi. The project takes the ongoing regeneration of Thamesmead and the lived experience of communities that live there as its context. The project aims to initiate a series of conversations exploring the intersections of urban regeneration, community resilience, and the role of artists in shaping future cities.
Mohammad Namazi is an artist and researcher working through means and processes of unlearning, transformation, telematics, and media technologies within social and cultural realms. His studio operates as a research lab for interdisciplinary projects – bridging digital technologies with community engagement, and decolonisation to amplify marginalised voices and explore collective memory. His work spans DIY publishing, immersive experiences, alternative archives, creative coding, electronic sculptures, sound installations, and internet-based artworks. Further information about his research and practice is available on his website.
The event uses film as a shared space for reflection, connecting archival memory with the present moment, inviting audiences to think with the people and places affected by policies often promoted through the promise of the future city and new homes. Presented films move between testimony and form, allowing poetry, humour and documentary evidence to sit side by side.
Bringing together works from the LUX collection alongside films by artists engaged in housing activism, the selection spans different moments and methods to map a longer history of ongoing urban change. Films show attention to architecture as lived experience, perceived failures in housing policy, the impact of change on communities, or the contested nature of spaces and places. A panel discussion after the screening will combine current perspectives with the chance to hear first-hand stories from some of the filmmakers in the programme.
Films shown include
Rhea Storr, Okay Keskidee! Let Me See Inside (2025), 19 min
John Smith, Blight (1996), 16 min
Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Polly II: Plan for a Revolution in Docklands (2006), 30 min
Emily Richardson, Block (2005), 12 min
Steven Ball & Rastko Novaković, Concrete Heart Land (2013), 25 min
Tom Keene, Database (e)State: Shadow Database (2020), 10 mi
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Community Ecosystems is a community research project led and organised by artist Mohammad Namazi. The project takes the ongoing regeneration of Thamesmead and the lived experience of communities that live there as its context. The project aims to initiate a series of conversations exploring the intersections of urban regeneration, community resilience, and the role of artists in shaping future cities.
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Community Ecosystems forms part of Estates - an ongoing collaborative research project with artists, communities and groups that considers TACO!’s wider context of urban regeneration, the surrounding estates of Thamesmead and Abbeywood, and how we might collectively re-imagine community and civic space.
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Mohammad Namazi is an artist and researcher working through means and processes of unlearning, transformation, telematics, and media technologies within social and cultural realms. His studio operates as a research lab for interdisciplinary projects – bridging digital technologies with community engagement, and decolonisation to amplify marginalised voices and explore collective memory. His work spans DIY publishing, immersive experiences, alternative archives, creative coding, electronic sculptures, sound installations, and internet-based artworks. Further information about his research and practice is available on his website.
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This event has been supported by research funding from the Arts Council England and Royal Holloway, University of London