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This group started at the beginning of the Space Makers Agency project at Brixton Village in November 2009. Over the next year, the 20 empty shops at Brixton Village were filled with temporary pop-ups and new local businesses.

Please join us for the relaunch of Space Makers at a joint event with the Young Foundation.There will be short presentations, followed by a discussion and a chance to meet others involved or interested in the creative reuse of empty space. Speakers will include:* Dan Thompson, founder of the Empty Shops Network and author of the DTA's 'Empty Shops Handbook', on the “slack space” movement around the country;* Gaia Marcus, coordinator of Space Makers Network, on her work with the Young Foundation…See More

Following a great meetup at NESTA in June, we're meeting again at the Whitechapel Gallery on July 9th.Come along and meet other people who are involved in creating collaborative spaces, reusing empty buildings and rethinking the spaces in which we spend our time.See More

This month, we'll be meeting at the headquarters of NESTA - the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts - where we'll be joined by Roland Harwood, who runs NESTA Connect.Their work on 'Attacking the Recession' has started some really interesting conversations about the role of informal networks and collaborative approaches in…See More

Found two interesting links on empty spaces.First is Urban Mapz, http://www.urbanmapz.co.uk/ which is a business mapping site, one of the categories is "Empty Shop" which offers a nice highlighting of empty space, as seen on the Camden map. http://www.urbanmapz.co.uk/high-street-map/camden/camden. Not too sure how up to date their data is, so that is something I am going to find…See More

For anyone in London who's interested in meeting up face-to-face to talk about "alternative third spaces".(Image of the Hub Islington by Mirona Iliescu)See More