Fight4Aylesbury

13/03/2026

The definitive version of our online exhibition is now live!

In 2023, Fight4Aylesbury turned Aysen's flat into a living installation, celebrating 20+ years of housing campaigning on the estate to defend public housing. Over 800 people attended at the time.

We then set out to reconstruct the exhibition online, using 3D scans, photographs, original materials, videos and audio files to bring the flat back to life in digital form.
Many of you tested an early version of the website and helped us improve it. After months of work, it is finally ready.
Visit the exhibition here: www.fight4aylesbury.org

The exhibition is an interactive website and can only be explored on a computer, not on mobile. For the best experience, set your browser zoom to 100% and keep your display scaling at 125% or below. Don't forget to hit the full screen button in the bottom right corner!
Explore Aysen's flat. Share it widely. This is a living record of what community resistance looks like.
Dennis Lanuza Rilling

02/04/2023

12 Days to Go ⏳

01/03/2023

📯📯 The Fight4Aylesbury exhibition will be open 14-24 April 2023. On Aylesbury, South London (we'll announce the exact location closer to the date 👀).
Mark your diaries, make a plan, tell a mate.
Down with social cleansing, up with joyous resistance. Good homes for all.

28/02/2023

Art -- under the guise of community 'engagement' and 'collaboration' -- has often worked as regeneration's accomplice, both on the Aylesbury Estate and in any number of working-class districts.

On the Aylesbury, a 2013 initiative saw images of tenants (some of whom sat on the regeneration board) reimagined on hoardings as famous works of art. Wagstaffs, the design company behind the project, said it was 'part of a wider marketing strategy'.

Unsurprisingly, many tenants and activists opposed it, demanding 'homes not stupid pictures'. One tenant said: 'We couldn't let them, you know, pose and be artistic. And how low they can be, those people, showing their face -- they are the ones who sold off the estate.

To find out more and to donate to our crowdfunding follow this link: https://bit.ly/3RRwX18

24/02/2023

Southwark’s efforts at regenerating the Aylesbury were intended to be seen and understood as ‘community led.’ From the mid-1990s until the stock transfer ballot in 2001, the estate was awhirl with newsletters, questionnaires, interviews, open days, ballots, public meetings, individual block meetings and surveys.

In reality, however, ‘consultation’ only affirmed pivotal decisions that went beyond the control or even consideration of tenants: in the council’s mind, regeneration was always going to culminate in demolition.

‘Even when funds are set aside for urban renewal study,’ wrote Jane Jacobs in 1958, ‘the study almost invariably begins with standardized preconceptions about what is wrong and what will be a desirable result, and takes off from there.’

21/02/2023

For a few months in the winter of 2015, housing activists occupied a number of empty buildings on the Aylesbury Estate, to fight against its demolition, and raise awareness of social cleansing of the area.

The Occupation served to highlight the violence and inequality at the heart of regeneration, and was an act of solidarity with Aylesbury tenants and residents, some of whom materially supported the occupiers.

One tenant said: 'That was really good, for two months occupation. My sister used to do soup for them...making a lot of sandwiches, soup, and then taking it there because it's February, March, cold weather. And every day we had a meeting.'
📷 ©LG

19/02/2023

We are here and we won't go silently. We've been fighting against social cleansing for over 2 decades and we won't be erased. Support our exhibition - our struggles are about our present, past and future.

We need help to make it happen- chip in if you can: https://bit.ly/3RRwX18

17/02/2023

Are you wondering how you could support Fight4Aylesbury with our exhibition?

There are many ways:

1. Donate to our crowdfunding campaign bit.ly/3RRwX18

2.Spread the word: share our posts and the link to the crowdfunder. Sharing the pinned post is a great start.

3. Donate or lend us materials:

🔊 small speakers (5 sets)

📱 💻old devices (working tablets or phones) to play sound off

💡lights (especially LED panels)

🎧 Headphones

🖼 photo frames

4. Printing support: do you have access to free/cheap printing to help with printing a small booklet?

5. Contacts with supportive journalists or anyone who might want to cover/blog about the project.

6. Come along to the exhibition. We'll announce our dates soon. 👀

Message us. We can organise a pick up or drop off of materials.

Thanks!

Celebrating housing struggles on Aylesbury Estate (South London) from 1999 to now: exhibition in a re

16/02/2023

Housing estate demolitions erase tenants and residents. As tenants living in an estate that is being demolished, we spend years and years living in uncertainty, without knowing what will happen to us; we are asked to contribute to ridiculous sham "consultations"; we live next to building sites that badly affect our health, and once we move we often end up far from our communities, on more expensive rent and on less secure tenancies. We are creating an exhibition that will tell the story of us resisting this demolition and this so-called "regeneration". Help us make it happen by donating to our crowdfunder. bit.ly/3RRwX18

15/02/2023

Behind the scenes of Fight4Aylesbury: a model of Aysen' s flat with mock ups of all the posters, photos and collages we will display during our exhibition about 22+ years of fights for housing justice and against social cleansing.

Chip in to help make it happen: https://bit.ly/3RRwX18