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Affordance Collective is a spatial research practice using sonic, visual and material methods to critique architectures of extraction, and investigate their ecological and social implications.



As former classmates in Global Urbanism at the Bartlett UCL, we share an inclination to examine spatial injustice and environmental crisis through site-specific, small-scale inquiries. Our process is open-ended and often deliberately slow, using careful attention to the obscured and overlooked to shed light on broader processes. 


The name Affordance denotes attention to small details as openings to new possibilities, relationships and futures for place. We use methods including photography, film, writing and performance to resist dominant narratives of progress, growth and development.  

Our ongoing work explores industrial architectures of extraction on urban peripheries, and their place in local landscapes and global supply chains.








Lily Flashman is an architectural researcher and creative practitioner based in London. They work at the intersection of architecture, activism and artistic research, with a focus on housing and climate justice, queering the built environment and community co-design. Their practice uses counter-cartographic, visual and sonic methods—through speculative maps, film, printed matter, and sound—to challenge dominant spatial narratives. 

They currently work at RAFT, an architecture practice specialising in community retrofit. They are part of the queer architecture collective, Take Up Space based in Central St Martins, and have worked with the Architecture Fringe, Just Space, Sister Midnight and the London Festival of Architecture. Between 2023-24, they were the UCL Urban Laboratory Ruth Glass scholar. 


Wong Kwang Lin is a mixed-methods researcher and artist with a background in anthropology, social policy and urban practice. Her practice is strongly informed by the improvisatory nature and close attention inherent in ethnography, as well as training in contemporary dance and improvisatory movement. 

Kwang Lin’s current work focuses on civic space, community-led housing and anti-poverty. She works with dance, material installations, film, and mapping, seeking enchantment in the mundane to interrogate and appropriate histories and uses of space. She has directed and performed in works for Esplanade Singapore, National Gallery Singapore, Allegra Laboratory, Art Curator Grid, and The Substation.