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62 Start with the park
A design for a community space
within the Broadway Estate, Tilbury,
Essex was combined with a parallel
art-led research project. Muf looked
into the history and contemporary
presence of the horses in Tilbury
and how the attendant culture of
the traveller population has
shaped the landscape
‘Green spaces
are reservoirs
of collective
memory.’
Ken Worpole
The new landscape
acknowledges and
accommodates the diverse and
contradictory demands made
on its limited space. The design
ensures both security and
pleasure through an undulating
landscape of shared and discrete
spaces to accommodate horse
riding, the under fives, robust
play and sitting in the sun,
whilst designing out misuse and
anti-social behaviour. To mark
the completion of the space a
procession of children involved in
the research phase walked from
Tilbury Fort across the marshes
and back to the site