Nature And Landscape

Construction & Craft: Heritage as a tool for inspiring the next generation

Global Generation is an environmental education charity, working with children and young people, businesses, residents and families. After 20 years in Kings Cross on ‘meanwhile’ spaces, we are starting the construction of our first permanent garden – a brownfield site bordering the Caledonian ward in Islington, a deprived area undergoing rapid urban growth. The classroom, kitchen, office and ecological garden will be built through a paid training programme for under-represented young people in heritage crafts and skills and the use of local natural materials, showcasing a different way of building in the face of the industrialisation of construction. Young Fellows will be trained and will co-lead on the creative documentation of the project, culminating in a physical and digital ‘Living Exhibition’, widening the reach of the project. The legacy of the project is to create a garden for people to connect to natural heritage for generations to come.