Pass(Portal) is a free print and digital activity pack to facilitate creative conversations on the meaning of diaspora on a micro level, exploring home, culture, and travel.

A Journey Through Time and Culture is a free activity pack to facilitate creative conversations on the meaning of diaspora. Though it was designed with a classroom setting in mind for KS3 and KS4, it is open and appropriate for use in a variety of settings for all ages.

In 2024 we launched Memories for the Future, a two-year inquiry exploring the contributions of the diaspora in shaping Peckham’s identity and heritage.

Barby Asante talks to Paul Goodwin about the South London Black Music Archive exhibition at Peckham Platform in 2012.

This interview with artist Barby Asante looks at her inspiration for the South London Black Music Archive and documents the exhibition.

Case study of the South London Black Music Archive exhibition by Barby Asante.

This digital tapestry is a collaborative work from artist Meera Shakti Osborne and producer A.G made after working with a group of young people on the 2021 Digital Tapestry project.

Seek, Sort, Sense is a free activity pack designed for children aged 3-6 years old that encourages engagement with green spaces in the area.

In 2023-24, we extended our reach both online and out into public spaces, providing hundreds of thousands of opportunities for local residents to experience, participate in, and reconnect through creative activities.

Peckham Platform hosted a panel discussion on March 20, 2024, celebrating the “Rye Lane Reconnected” project. The event featured artists Meera Shakti Osborne and Tyreis Holder, who discussed their work reconnecting Peckham’s Rye Lane with its community through collaborative art.

Larsen’s film 343 Perspectives quietly reflects on themes of isolation and community in a residential area in south London served only by one form of transport – the 343 bus.

Artist Nikolaj Larsen discusses his 2012 work 343 Perspectives.

We continued to lead The Peckham Partnership to deliver a three year programme Tilting the Mirror. The partnership formed a Black-led, intergenerational community steering group including Golden Oldies, Leaders of Tomorrow and Peckham Park Baptist Church who worked with us to deliver creative placemaking initiatives across Peckham spaces. 

Follow along with this video to create patterns and textures with watercolour paint.

Case study of Sarah Cole’s 2013 exhibition TRIBE.

Sarah Cole in conversation with Dean Kenning, Louise Doherty, Danny McNally and Emily Druiff, Peckham Platform.

Case study of our Youth Platform’s exhibition Platform Press House in collaboration with artist Harold Offeh.

In 2021/22, Peckham Platform continued to collaborate with communities across Southwark to deliver artistic commissions, programmes and projects that centred the experiences of local people and directly responded to their needs.

These resources offer a range of reference materials around drug and alcohol misuse, focusing on movies, music, art and books.

Podcast debating the value of art within the NHS’s addiction services, with Mark Prest, Dr Alison Rooke and Dr Luke Micheson.

In 2015 artist Melanie Manchot discussed the inspiration behind her ambitious film installation, Twelve, with Dr Pratap Rugani, documentary filmmaker and then Reader in Documentary Film at University of the Arts London.

Janette Parris in conversation with Tamsin Dillon, Curator of 14-18 Now and former Director of Art on the Underground.

Film created by Janette Parris with thanks to students and tutors at Harris Academy Peckham.

The first year of the Covid-19 pandemic was transformative for Peckham Platform. This report tells the story of how we responded to the intersectional crisis of Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter.

A film by Harold Offeh, documenting his 2010 Peckham Platform commission, Futurama, with youth group Leaders of Tomorrow and design team Glass Hill.

Artist Harold Offeh and Paul Goodwin discuss issues of urban design and future thinking in reference to Futurama, Offeh’s 2010 commission for Peckham Platform.

To accompany the exhibition Bookbed, artist Ruth Beale has complied a small collection of books by or about autodidacts and self-education, and books selected to aid the autodidact.

Artist Ruth Beale considers the themes within the exhibition Bookbed. The talk provides an opportunity to consider the exhibition in the context of contemporary art practice and to discuss questions arising from the audience.

Artist Kimathi Donkor, Lindsay Johns and Emily Druiff discuss the development of Kimathi’s exhibition ‘Daddy, I want to be a Black Artist’

Kathrin Böhm explores issues of distribution of wealth, community economies, local currencies and the economics of mental health.

Eileen Perrier in conversation with writer Michael McMillan and Emily Druiff.

A limited edition newspaper documenting Eileen Perrier’s 2014 commission, Peckham Square Studio.

This Social Art Map produced in 2015 by Emily Druiff and Sophie Hope was intended as a starting point or resource for people interested in social art practice, including those engaged in producing, commissioning, curating, collaborating and participating.

In spring 2010 Peckham Platform selected artist David Cotterrell to work with residents from north Peckham on a project that would address the theme of identity for the area. The resulting project, Slipstream, proposed to make a new film taking north Peckham residents’ narratives of how their landscape has changed over the last 45 years as its starting point.

Artist David Cotterrell discusses Slipstream, his 2011 Peckham Platform commissioned artwork, with Dr David Dibosa.

Barbara Steveni introduces the methodology behind the radical Southwark Education Research Project (SERP)(1989-95).

Emily Druiff, Trustee and Founder of Peckham Platform discusses Southwark Education Resource Project (SERP) Reactivated and the significance of archives in the spring 2018 issue of The National Society for Education in Art & Design’s AD magazine.

Introduction by Emily Druiff (Executive Director, Peckham Space) and executive summary by independent consultants Tony Buckley and Brigid Howarth

Includes an impact report by Tony Buckley and Brigid Haworth, and introductions to the organisation’s work by Emily Druiff (Director Peckham Space) and Chris Wainwright (Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London).

With a theme of “celebrating success” this impact report includes an introduction from the chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts, and an impact study by Brigid Howarth and Tony Buckley.

Peckham Platform’s first impact report, documenting the first 18 months of the organisation.