Welcome to the first episode of the Tottenham Pavilion Conversations, a project developed as a collaboration between the digital architecture platform KooZA/rch and the Tottenham Pavilion team in occasion of the London Festival of Architecture 2020. My name is Federica Zambeletti and today along with Carolina Gismondi from KooZA/rch, we will be in conversation with Carolina, James and Joe from the Tottenham Pavilion project. In early 2020, a competition was launched to develop a concept for a pavilion that encapsulates the uniqueness of warehouse life for a wider public audience. Tottenham Pavilion is a project run by a local team from the Harringay Warehouse District; a former industrial site in South Tottenham that has, over the past 20 years, been converted into live and work space by artists, makers, musicians and entrepreneurs. The community is a living alternative to standard gentrification. Shaped by a self-build community, rather than delivered by a regeneration masterplan. It’s not merely grass root, nor bottom up, that’s far too linear - it’s a power source that comes from the clash of differences that makes this community unique. And now lets find out more….