RECOGNITION

As a Community Learning Space

With the centre situated near one of Hackney’s prime retail zones, its most public-facing offer will be as an open educational environment that promotes the marginalised and under-documented contributions that people of African heritage in Hackney have made to society. In a space that is part museum and part library, the history of Hackney’s African heritage communities will be put on permanent display through a mixture of tactile and digital display technologies. This service will also offer a yearlong programme to local schools to enrich their curriculum delivery and link members from the African diaspora such as the Caribbean with those whose heritage is more closely entwined with the continent.

The learning space is to be marketed as a cultural offering for all people around the world to come and visit. Its exhibitions and educational programmes will utilise Hackney’s rich history of ‘black’ politics and be designed to provide opportunities for the public to study, attend