The People's Research Seminar is a discussion group that meets at the Centre for Possible Studies for those involved in the Edgware Road Project to reflect on the methodologies, conflicts and ethics of their work. The seminar explores histories of what might be described as 'people's research'. This term indicates forms of research in which people -- with varying relationships to academic study -- have set the terms, methods and needs for their investigations in direct relationship to their own struggles and desires. more...

The x:talk project is a space to organise and empower workers in the sex industry and to encourage critical interventions around the issues of migration, gender and labour. In addition to providing free English classes to migrant sex workers, x:talk supports critical interventions around issues of migration, race, gender, sexuality and labour, participating in feminist and anti-racist campaigns and being active in the struggle for the rights of sex workers in London, the UK and globally. more...

The Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre: Project 5 group investigates moving image screens that have proliferated across the public spaces of the world's cities. Often treated as generic and forgettable, these are part of a new and highly differentiated culture of aspiration. Today, the same technology is available almost anywhere. more...

Etel Adnan (b. 1925, Beirut) is a poet, essayist and visual artist who divides her time between Lebanon, France and the USA. She retired from a permanent teaching position in the late 1970s and now devotes herself to her art and writing. A powerful voice in feminist and antiwar movements, Adnan has published several works of poetry and fiction, among which are Sitt Marie Rose (1978), The Arab Apocalypse (1989) and Master of the Eclipse (2009). more...

The Public Space Seminar was a weekly meeting developed by designer Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad with students from Westminster Academy, and held between 2010 and 2011. The Public Space Seminar was proposed as an experiment in how vocational education could be re-tooled... more...

In a new Edgware Road Project residency, to be launched during the On the Edgware Road exhibition, artist Polly Brannan and designer Jackson Lam are working with local archives and groups to develop a study of the many possibilities that have been generated in relation to the Edgware Road in recent history. more...

Since 2004, Bidoun's projects have included a range of pursuits: curatorial initiatives, educational programmes, artist commissions, talks, tours, performances, books, an itinerant library, an online archive of avant-garde media, and Bidoun magazine. Bidoun has won many sought-after honours in the publishing world, including three UTNE Independent Press Awards for social and cultural coverage, design, and art writing. Recent curatorial projects include NOISE (Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut) and The Bidoun Library. more...

Emily Wardill's work explores how social meanings are projected onto objects, and throws such processes into reverse. Wardill London's Jarman Award in 2010 and the Leverhulme Award in 2012. Recent group exhibitions include The British Art Show (2011), 54th Venice Biennale (2011) and screenings at the London Film Festival (2011) and New York Film Festival (2010). more...

Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad is a London based designer with a background in photography and an interest in social space. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008, establishing a cross-disciplinary practice that produces work ranging from interior spaces, recipes, furniture to photography, public interventions, and products. more...

Åbäke is a group of four graphic designers who do a lot more than you might expect. They are self confessed 'content' junkies. Patrick Lacey is from the UK, Kajsa Stahl from Sweden, Benjamin Reichen and Maki Suzuki from France. more...

Ultra-red's project, RE:ASSEMBLY has been a multi-year collaboration with the St. Marylebone C.E. School community and representatives of constituencies in neighbourhoods adjacent to the Edgware Road. Ours is the latest of many Serpentine Gallery- initiated school projects. Among the primary lessons Ultra-red drew from our review of these past projects is that Education, like Art, is a manifestation of fundamental social contradictions, including the constantly recalibrated relationships between rights and responsibilities, and social wellbeing and wealth. more...

Living and working in Alexandria, Wael Shawky has received international acclaim for his work as an artist and filmmaker, exploring transitional events in society, politics, culture and religion in the history of the Arab world. Recent exhibitions include Nottingham Contemporary (2011); Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial) (2011); Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (2010); Cittadellarte, Italy (2010) and Townhouse, Cairo (2009). In 2010 Shawky launched MASS Alexandria, the first Independent Studio Programme for young artists in the city. more...

Rania Stephan was born in Beirut. She has worked as a sound engineer, editor, first assistant and producer with renowned filmmakers including Simone Bitton and Elia Suleiman. Her filmography includes: Tribe (1993), Attempt at Jealousy (1995), My First Camera (1998), Arrest at Manara (2003), Wastelands (2005), Lebanon/War (2006) and The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011), which was most recently exhibited at MoMA PS1, New York (October 2011 - February 2012). more...

Marwan Rechmaoui is a Lebanese artist living and working in Beirut, whose work often deals with themes of urban development and social history. Rechmaoui has taken part in many exhibitions and projects, including: Landscapes, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (2011-2012); Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, Saatchi Gallery, London (2009); the 7th Sharjah Biennial (2005), Home Works IV, Beirut (2008) and Townhouse, Cairo (2001). more...

Formed in 2004, no.w.here is a not-for-profit artist-run collective based in Tower Hamlets that supports film production alongside critical dialogue about contemporary image-making. founded by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, no.w.here has supported the production of artist works, run multiple workshops and critical discussions and curated performances, screenings, residencies, publications, events and exhibitions. no.w.here's projects explore political and aesthetic questions around contemporary image-production and systems of distribution. more...

Born in Lebanon in 1972, Lamia Joreige is a visual artist and filmmaker living and working in Beirut. Using archival documents and fictitious elements, Joreige explores the possibilities of representation of Beirut, the Lebanese wars and their aftermath. Recent exhibitions include Beirut, Kunsthalle Wien (2011) and 9th Sharjah Biennial (2009). Joreige is a co-founder and co-director of Beirut Art Center, a not-for-profit space dedicated to contemporary art in Lebanon. more...

Hiwa K was born in Kurdish Iraq and is now living in Germany. His mode of working includes performative approaches to knowledge and often invites collaborations. The practice employed by the artist springs from everyday forms and personal stories that indirectly apply to the geopolitical and cultural issues he addresses. more...

Susan Hefuna's work reflects personal experiences in-between cultures, dealing with cross-cultural codes; she constantly plays at what images mean and how they work. Hefuna has exhibited extensively at institutions such as Townhouse, Cairo (2011); The Third Line Dubai (2011); On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century, MoMa, NYC (2010); Fare Mondi, 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); 8th Sharjah Biennial (2007), Musée du Louvre, Paris 2004--2005); Seville Biennial (2008) and 2nd Riwaq Biennale, Palestine (2007). more...

For the Edgware Road Project, CAMP have created edgwareroad.org, an open publishing platform and archive for self-organised local research to be gathered and distributed as journals, placemats, pamphlets and webcasts. edgwareroad.org responded to certain digital/archival instincts and to the collaborative research ethos of the Centre for Possible Studies, to produce not only collaborative online spaces, but also tangible print outputs related to the histories and contemporary issues on the Road. more...