Appendix
Spaces of Participation
The following is a sample selection of the London Plan consultation events I had attended in person and online between 2018-2020. From free events at City Hall facilitated by the GLA to the basement of a café for a community-led discussion to a (fee-paying) breakfast meeting in a hotel banquet room hosted by a developers’ forum, the variety of spaces demonstrate the degrees of open and closed invitations to participate. The survey diagrammatically analyses each event’s format and spatial configuration (room layout), as well as photographically documents the demographics of organisers and attendees. It also illustrates the bodily engagement and physical labour involved to attend and participate.