The Conversation Booth
The Conversation Booth is a space to record stories and listen to others. The Community Engagement team are working with The Conversation Booth to gather insights from Londoners and about London’s communities.
It creates a space for new conversations and encounters between members of a community, allowing a unique perspective into the lives of Londoners.
Audio recordings create valuable archives for the communities involved, and are being used to inform the work of the Community Engagement team going forward.
Where has it been?
On Saturday 30 June 2018, The Conversation Booth was part of The Arrival event at City Hall, celebrating the 70th anniversary since the arrival of Windrush. Those who attended the event were invited to tell their stories of arrival in London.
Since then, the collaboration between City Hall's Community Engagement team and The Conversation Booth have taken them to six London locations with different topics of discussion:
- City Hall: Arrival (Windrush) - Tell your stories of arrival in London
- Southbank Centre: Africa Utopia Festival - Africa in London: Discuss
- Queen Mary University - What does mental health mean for students today?
- Woolwich Centre Library - How do you define community?
- Goldsmiths University - Stories of arriving in London
- OPDC at The Collective - What do you find 'surprising/shocking/fascinating/worrying/interesting' about your local area?
The Mayor of London's Conversation Booth tour ran between June - December 2018.
Listen to snapshots of these conversations by accessing the online archive
If you are interested in accessing the full recorded conversations for research or workshops, please contact us: [email protected]
To find out more about the installation of The Conversation Booth - contact: [email protected]
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