The project explores the South Kilburn estate decline, a soon-to-be-demolished brutalist development in the heart of London. The project critically engages with materiality and the embodiment of memory through sculpture. It focuses on exposing how capitalist narratives serve the wealthy and promote the erasure of communities.

This project investigates the decline of the South Kilburn estate by analysing its history, material presence and collective memory from a critical perspective. Originally conceived as part of the post-war Brutalist movement in response to the devastation caused by the Second World War, the estate represented the modernist ideals of social progress and collective living.

Found on the estate, the vandalised surveillance sign embodies defiance and resistance. It reflects a community pushing back against the system that led them to the current situation of abandonment. As part of my critique, I am designing a sculpture that is ultimately a fossil of the vandalised sign found on the estate's premises. Through casting the sign, I aim to preserve both the act of resistance and the systematic neglect that shaped its fate.