Notes from the Temporary City: Hackney Wick and Fish Island 2014-2015

In 2014 Mara Ferreri and Andreas Lang embarked on a year-long investigation of the multiple and contradictory values of temporary projects and spaces in Hackney Wick and Fish Island. The resulting collection of notes, interviews, observations, maps and photographs formed the basis of our co-authored book Notes from the Temporary City: Hackney Wick and Fish Island 2014-2015. In it, we raised questions about a temporary city in the making and discussed cultural capital, the language of policy and planning, the paradoxes of temporariness and the pop-up disquiet felt by many residents and practitioners as the post-Olympic redevelopment plans began affecting the neighbourhood.