By: Bobbi Jelgerhuis Swildens
Featured in: March 2024 edition of Dezeen magazine
Goal
Draw attention to the havoc policy-driven gentrification wreaks in the lives of the gentrified.
I explored the role that makers and designers can take up in aiding/facilitating the necessary mourning process.
Outcomes
I coined the term ‘gentrification grief’.
8 design principles that can be used by designers to make therapeutic interventions.
Not as sleazy fixes to clear the conscience of municipalities and housing corporations, but as bottom-up acts of radical care, from one citizen to another.
Read more in the project report (PDF 8MB).
