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Community Observers
The Community Observers project is for people who would like to keep track of some of the changes in the area where they live or work in the run-up to 2012. It is part of 'Mapping the Change', a project run by Hackney Museum and Hackney Archives to record what is happening in our Borough prior to the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, and how local people feel about them.
Changes could be recorded in many different ways - by photograph, diaries, artwork, scrapbooks, or other methods. We hope to use the records in exhibitions and displays over the next few years. In the long term they will be stored in the Archives, so that future generations will have a picture of this part of Hackney's history.
Becoming a Community Observer involves -
- joining the Mapping the Change team
- contributing your records of the changes and how you feel about them
- seeing your work in special exhibitions and events
- contributing to a permanent collection to document Hackney's story
Hackney Archives is working with Hackney Museum on the Mapping the Change project. The aim is to record the changes to people's lives as a result of the 2012 Olympic Games. For further information about the project and current and future events, please see Mapping the Change.
A Home of One's Own: Rebuilding Hackney Post World War Two
In July 2008 a grant of £10,000 was awarded as part of the Museums Libraries and Archives Council's 'Their Past Your Future' programme for a joint project relating to how bombing during World War Two affected post-War housing in Hackney. The partners are RIBA British Architectural Library (lead partner), the Building Exploratory and Hackney Archives.
The project has focussed on the Mapledene Estate, looking at pre-war housing, the bomb damage inflicted on the area and the Estate that was built after the War. Students from the Bridge Academy and from the Building Exploratory's Senior Bees group have visited both Hackney Archives and RIBA Architectural Library to look at original documents, photographs, plans and official records relating both to Mapledene Estate and generally to post-War housing in Hackney.
They have also interviewed architects from RIBA's Doric Club and members of the Mapledene Tenants Association. The students thoughts and reflections on their experiences have been recorded on the Radiowaves Schools website.
Page updated: 23 Sep 2011
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