This is why we had been looking forward to visiting the Assemble collective's Turner Prize-winning Granby Four Streets.
In fact, it was at the top of the to-do list when planning our visit to Liverpool (before the world around us changed, back in early March 2020).
The project has been defined as a "ground-up" regeneration project and it is no surprise to see how it has been embraced by its community ... The opposite to "ground-up" (which I guess would be top-down) often results in some form of "space ship landing" where the existing context is ignored to impose a new way of living... Like those aliens in the movies... Or through history.
On arrival to the area, one could feel a NYC's Williamsburg-like vibe if only a much more grounded and less hipster version.
The community-owned winter garden (which together with the adjacent kitchen and large room, is located inside two emptied terraced houses) was a highlight, for sure. It was bright and charming an exciting place to host community gatherings, which is in dramatic contrast to the institutional images people have in mind when picturing a community centre
It is too often that we stop ourselves from dreaming the kind of dreams we should, to create the places we could be.
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