Shirley Lam

About

Shirley Lam is a multidisciplinary designer/storyteller specialising in combining narratives and culture into materials, construction and space, with an MA in Interior Design from the Royal College of Art and a BSc Architecture graduate of Bartlett School of Architecture.

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in December 2019, distrust in the government has surged. Numerous scandals have eroded trust, and political broadcasting is now a highly disputed form of reliable media when journalism becomes a medium for authorities to make excuses. Media is driven by monetary profits, encouraging the rise of independent media. It’s time to burst the Westminster bubble. The programme repurposes the 23-24 Gillender Street factory into the People’s Library and Archive. It embraces the concept of peaceful and creative protest and fosters openness towards past and present social issues through its initiatives. The Gillender Street factory will be repurposed to broadcast individual injustices, with its structure evolving and marked by each act of dissent. It will also immortalise past protests, allowing the public to explore and critique how the memories and intent of written work shift through mistranslation. The interior design will draw inspiration the materiality of paper and the intangibility of light and dark. As well as a public printing press of protest and a porous media center, the programme celebrates the freedom to disseminate and publish of paper content.