22/09/2026
We are delighted to announce that Akil Scafe-Smith of RESOLVE Collective will be joining our upcoming panel discussion, “Prisons, Land Rights and the Carceral Gaze,” alongside Hazem Jamjoum hazem حازم Dr. Lisa Palmer, Sukaina Rajwani Sukaina Bharwani-Rajwani + Sumayyah Zannath .zannath 💫
✨ About Akil ✨
Akil Scafe-Smith is a director of RESOLVE Collective, an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology, and art to address social challenges. They have delivered numerous projects, workshops, publications, and talks in the UK and across the world, all of which look toward realising just and equitable visions of change in our built environment. RESOLVE recently launched Material Store, a space that redistributes surplus material from art institutions turning cultural waste into community assets. They are currently commissioned artists at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the Bienal Afrodiaspórica in Cali, Colombia and have recently completed exhibitions and installations at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Walk & Talk Biennale in Açores, Architecture Fringe in Edinburgh, and Orleans House, London. This year, they co-founded Tipping Point East, the UK’s first circular construction and bio-material hub based in Newham, East London, with Material Cultures and Yes Make.
Join us for this panel discussion chaired by Hazem Jamjoum ft Dr Lisa Palmer, Sukaina Rajwani, Akil Scafe-Smith + Sumayyah Zannath 💫
When: Saturday 26 September, 2 – 4 pm ⏳
Where:📍The Edge, Cheapside, Deritend, B12 0QH
Like the ‘weeds’ that push through even prison concrete, there is much the state, and corporations can’t control or don’t have the imagination to control. How can we collectively imagine and act beyond the carceral gaze, while also addressing current realities? Furthermore, how do issues of land justice intersect with efforts to challenge the prison-industrial complex? 🌍
🎟 Register via link in bio. Tickets also available on the door 💫
Access ♿️
The venue has step-free access, baby-changing facilities and a working lift onsite. This event will be taking place in the Grey Studio, located on the ground floor.
Prayer mats will be availabl
