Publications

Creative Factories: Hackney Wick and Fish Island 2014

A publication commissioned by the London legacy Development Corporation to disseminate research and knowledge about informal live work communities in Hackney Wick and Fish Island.

A set of design principles that define the area’s distinctive ability to house creative communities - focusing on the scale of the factory block, the shared yard and the communal live-work unit. Features examples of existing informal live work collectives and their units.

MADE IN HWFI: The Live-Work Collectives by Richard Brown 2012

This report looks at creative live-work spaces in Hackney Wick and Fish Island (HWFI). The aim is to reveal, in more detail, the people and the places that have influenced the area’s prominent creative industry. There are thirteen individual case studies from five different factory complexes in the area. Each study looks at a particular live-work unit and its inhabitants, to consider how the differing creative disciplines, spatial arrangements and economic factors have played a part in the cultural growth of the area. In the context of the likely development of some of these sites due to be released from their light industrial zoning, this research project aims to document the key role of existing live-work arrangements in the area’s current cultural foundations, and make a case against their disappearance.

LLDC Work-Live Study (Part 1: Research and Case Studies)