Kennington Common examines urban commoning as a historical framework and a technique of urban reappropriation.

In 1848, Kennington Common in South London hosted the Great Chartist Meeting, one of the largest political gatherings in London to date. Four years later, the commons were enclosed and rebuilt to reduce public access and prevent further gatherings. After being renamed Kennington Park, it was guarded and closely patrolled.

The Kennington Park archive, housed at MayDay Rooms, contains research into the historical importance of the Common and attempts to erase this history. It draws connections between fragmented histories and proposes methods to return theories of commoning. This project republishes archival material, situating it within Kennington Park itself, to inform and mobilise. Engaging directly with the park's urban fabric through flyposting, this project subverts current forms of development and disseminates new forms of knowledge within the Park.

It draws upon theories of poster making, positioning the poster as a visually aggressive aesthetic artefact within the theatre of public space. The project examines the impermanent, yet destabilising nature of the flyposter, and its role in seducing, persuading, mobilising, and eventually transforming.

Public space remains contingent on who and what are included or excluded by definitions of the public. Kennington Common urgently questions the production and governance of these spaces. It seeks to engage in the production of an urban common, in which dominant urban narratives are transformed through methods of reappropriation.