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Critique: She believes white supremacy is THE problem, she believes colonialism is THE problem, she believes capitalism is THE problem.

Dreamer : Let's build a free educational institution that teaches environmental justice and climate change to the people most affected by the above problems.

Builder: She employs people with different expertise and experience than she has to create a digital education platform.

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Executive Director of the Slow Factory Celine Semaan [afikra Conversations]

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She builds a world of young people who are aware of the systems of capitalism, colonial legacy and white supremacy. She's starting to move from awareness to workshops on HOW to take action.

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From where I can see (!)she is:
30% dreamer.
40% builder.
35% critiquer.

YES I AM AWARE SHE'S 105% PERSON.

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Best athlete ever. NBA Champion. Born in Ohio. 36 years old. Married with 3 kids. Never been caught up in controversy or scandal (except a skirmish with Trump on Twitter).

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Noah Davis has dreamt up and built a better, more equitable art community that exists outside of the industry and thrives on the people.

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Issa Rae is a writer actress business woman building a career as a media mogul.She creates eco systemsShe gets to iterate her dreams through multiple shows and acting.

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Olivia Wilde - She's an actor and a director, changing the world by showing/telling lots of Different stories.

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an eco system of other creatives and building opportunities for them to share their own visions and dreams for their better worlds.

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LeBron James

_most exceptional athlete (not just basketball player) of all time
_excelling from a young age with a natural gift, but also incredibly disciplined and puts the work in
_philanthropic and gives back to his community : using his money and fame to show up in spaces, which lots of athletes don't use their platform to do
_embodies the 'more than an athlete' philosophy: encouraged people to register to vote in the 2020 USA election
_has his own media company : ambitious enough to try new ventures
_limitless in what he puts his mind to

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The Fox News host sought to rebuke the NBA All-Star for “talking politics.” James said the flap created awareness on the NBA’s “best weekend”: “I get to sit up here and talk about social injustice.”

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Issa Rae:
30: Dream
40: Build
30: Critic

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In her Direction of "Booksmart" she created a film she knew would shock people to help fold understand girls and women better. All her films are about the untold stories of femmes. As a story-teller she wants to put "crude" in the title to purposefully play with it to explore the ways femmes really truly feel and experience this world.

Story tellers are the people who can really change the world. Whether you personally identify with that story or not, doesn't matter -  you will be given something you can learn from.

It's difficult to find someone who is telling / showing stories for minority and underserved groups to relate to and feel like their experinces are visible and relatable.

Olivia new that to create films she had to work against the industry to get the authenticity through the work.

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Noah Davis is a painter and co-founder of the Underground Museum in Los Angeles. He has inspired people from all generations to reimagine how we view the "art world" and broaden audiences with culture and art.

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Virgil Abloh was a ground breaking multidisciplinary designer that successfully applied his design philosophy across music, fashion, art and culture.

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She is the CEO and founder or Acumen and a social entrepreneur. She has invested time in listening to communities and has identified herself as someone who can build solutions. She has committed to driving this on an unimaginable scale.

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Jacqueline's work began in 1986 when she quit her job on Wall Street to co-found Rwanda's first microfinance institution, Duterimbere. The experience inspired her to write the bestseller, The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor , and create Acumen. Indeed, when she founded Acumen in 2001, few had heard of the words impact investing. Twenty years later, under Jacqueline's leadership, Acumen has invested $135 million to build 136 social enterprises across Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the United States. These companies have leveraged an additional $746 million and brought basic services like affordable education, health care, clean water, energy and sanitation to more than 308 million people. In 2015, Fast Company named Acumen one of the world's Top 10 Most Innovative Not-for-Profits.

Prior to Acumen, Jacqueline founded and directed The Philanthropy Workshop and The Next Generation Leadership programs at the Rockefeller Foundation. Jacqueline serves on boards of the Aspen Institute and 60 Decibels and sits on the Advisory Councils of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, the Oxford Said Global Leadership Council, the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, and UNICEF.

She is a frequent speaker at forums including TED and the Aspen Ideas Festival. Her best-selling memoir The Blue Sweater chronicles her quest to understand poverty and challenges readers to grant dignity to the poor and to rethink their engagement with the world. In 2017, Forbes listed Jacqueline as one of the World's 100 Greatest Living Business Minds.

She holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA in Economics/International Relations from the University of Virginia.

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Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen

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Jacqueline's work began in 1986 when she quit her job on Wall Street to co-found Rwanda's first microfinance institution, Duterimbere. The experience inspired her to write the bestseller, The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor , and create Acumen. Indeed, when she founded Acumen in 2001, few had heard of the words impact investing.

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Headmaster of Freedom and Balance, architect, creative genius .

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BUILDER - 40%
CRITIC - 20%

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Dreamer : Children's stories and dream worlds where whimsical, limitless possibilities exist.
Builder : Books on books on books.
Critics : His stories are societal critiques about consumerism, parenthood, childhood.

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He opened up the fashion world to value and place emphasis on previously under-represented and valued communities. Virgil would always say "I design everything for my 17 yr old self" - ie - the world I am creating is the world I was never allowed access to.

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Barrier-breaking designer. Genre-bending artist. Visionary. These are some of the ways people have described Virgil Abloh after it was announced that the 41-year-old creative died on Sunday following a private two-year battle with cancer. Over the last decade, the prolific designer - the founder of streetwear label Off-White and Louis Vuitton's men's artistic designer - produced no shortage of memorable designs, ranging from Off-White's " Little Black Dress" (that was displayed at the Costume Institute 2020 "About Time" exhibit) to sought-after collaborations with everyone from artist Takashi Murakami to brand giants like Ikea, Evian, and Nike.

But unlike most other designers that have reached similarly dizzying levels of cultural success, Abloh always viewed his place in fashion as closer to the earth. Maybe because, regardless of the numerous accolades, he never stopped thinking of himself as an outsider - a "skater kid" from Chicago, an architect who didn't go to fashion school, a DJ, a Black designer working in luxury fashion. What comes to mind for me right now, is the "You're Obviously In The Wrong Place" installation that I saw at Abloh's retrospective at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art in the summer of 2019. This, I imagine, is a phrase that Abloh heard often on his ascent to the highest echelons of the industry, one that influenced his career's trajectory.

The creative's story is well-known by now: The son of Ghanaian immigrants, Abloh first started working with Kanye West in the mid-2000s, going on to found Off-White, the Milan-based brand that bridged streetwear and luxury fashion, in 2013. By 2018, he was appointed as Louis Vuitton's men's artistic director. And while it's the latter that marks the apex of his designer career by conventional standards of high fashion - in addition to being chosen to lead a storied house, an honour for any designer, Abloh also made history by becoming the brand's first Black artistic director to do so in its 167-year history - it is far from the most important legacy that he is leaving behind.

Abloh was often quoted saying that everything that he did was for the "17-year-old version of myself." Not only was he continuously inspired by the youth culture for his designs, but he was also dedicated to making room for others. And that's the refrain heard most this past weekend - stories about times that Virgil reached out to work together, to create a community, to inspire others to follow dreams. "He always worked for a greater cause than his own illustrious career: to open the door to art and fashion for future generations, so that they - unlike himself - would grow up in a creative world with people to mirror themselves in," Edward Enninful, the Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue, wrote in an Instagram post following the news. "Your advice and encouraging words were priceless and will never be forgotten," echoed designer Sergio Hudson, who, earlier this year, debuted his collection at NYFW after dressing Michelle Obama for Inauguration Day. "You told me my destiny was set all I had to do was walk through the door. Those words gave me the confidence to ask for what I wanted and to push even harder."

In the decades to come, Abloh will most certainly be credited for marrying streetwear with luxury fashion. He will go down in history for poking fun at fashion - see: Off-White's signature scare quotes that challenged consumers to view everyday items as luxury ones - and exposing the ways in which high-end aesthetics are ultimately pedestrian pursuits. He will be remembered for democratizing luxury fashion, by injecting youthful, modern touches into Louis Vuitton, a brand that has long prided itself on tradition and experience over innovation. But, as Abloh continued to break boundaries of the notoriously exclusive industry, he remained as transparent about his design process as, as some have pointed out, the see-through suitcase he designed for Rimowa. For Abloh, this collaboration and sharing of ideas were as important as the tangible end products.

Abloh shared his knowledge with the future generation of creatives in an official capacity when he taught classes at London's Architectural Association School and through mentoring programs, but, according to his friends and collaborators, he selflessly gave advice to anyone who happened to cross paths with him. "What is very important about Virgil's work is that the whole time he's doing it - whether you're a young budding designer, musician, or architect - he is 'giving you the cheat codes,' as he likes to say," said Benji B, whom Abloh appointed Louis Vuitton's Music Director, in a 2019 interview with GQ.

Following the news of Abloh's passing, other creatives confirmed this quality that made him a monolith among a field of gate-keeping designers. "You were a mentor to all of us. If you had the privilege of chatting with Virg for even a minute you would know he dropped gems," wrote HBFIT founder and DJ Hannah Fallis Bronfman on Sunday. "Every time I left our convos he would leave me with a piece of advice that was so simple and yet so deeply profound. Thank you for leaving us with so many of your gifts." In her post, former magazine editor and Instagram's Director of Fashion Partnerships Eva Chen added, "He always wanted to help kids realize their dreams." Given this sense of camaraderie and collaboration, it makes sense that the word that the Costume Institute chose to describe the Off-White piece selected, a delicate tulle gown skirt paired with an anorak by Canadian outdoor label Arc'teryx, for this year's "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" exhibit was "reciprocity" - "the quality or state of being reciprocal (mutual dependence, action, or influence)."

As a fashion designer, Abloh broke all the rules and changed the luxury fashion game. His contributions to fashion and design through his creations will never be forgotten, but it's his legacy - to inspire every 17-year-old to dare to dream, to never wonder whether they are in the wrong place - that will live on.

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Virgil Abloh Is A Reminder That Fashion's Most Prolific Designers Are Outsiders

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Barrier-breaking designer. Genre-bending artist. Visionary. These are some of the ways people have described Virgil Abloh after it was announced that the 41-year-old creative died on Sunday following a private two-year battle with cancer.

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A world in which the solutions are built on genuine listening and understanding. She doesn't see herself as the only one who can fix it; the world is full of problem solvers. She has gifted the knowledge and tools in that same journey or independence and problem solving (i.e. her book "Moral Imagination"

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"When we look at the world's problems, it's easy to be discouraged-and maybe even conclude that positive change is futile. There's a remedy for this discouragement: Jacqueline Novogratz's Manifesto for a Moral Revolution. "

Arthur C Brooks, author and president emeritus, American Enterprise Institute & Professor of Practice, Harvard Kennedy School and Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School

"This book is a timely reminder that our orientation to the work is as important as the work itself. For the many who want to do good but have not quite thought about the mindsets that will allow them to do such good, this book is necessary."

DeRay McKesson, activist, organizer, podcaster, and author

"Don't let the words 'manifesto' and 'revolution' fool you; this book is all about love, humility, and patience. Novogratz shows the power of listening - not just to the poor but to everyone who can help you see new possibilities."

Jonathan Haidt, New York Times bestselling author

"An urgent manifesto about what it means to stand with the poor, to see through clear eyes, and most of all, to do work worth doing. Jacqueline Novogratz helps each of us understand that we're capable of so much, if we only cared enough."

Seth Godin, New York Times bestselling author

"Everyone who wants to have an impact on the world-from entrepreneurs, philanthropists and CEOs, to volunteers, teachers and advocates-would be wise to keep a copy of this new book by Jacqueline Novogratz at hand."

Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

"Wise and optimistic... provides a benevolent tonic for those looking to rise above the troubled waters of the age and embrace the 'beautiful struggle' of rebuilding our broken world. An inspiringly hopeful book."

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Shon Faye a former lawyer, current writer/activist who wrote The Transgender Issue about the intersectionalities inside of that identity and how expansive it really is. The book being a prism in which to see the worlds issues through that lens.

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the power of Virgil's work was that it was equally a critique, a dream and a build. The idea was a process, the process was the idea. It's all one and the same.

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Roald Dahl builds stories where children can dream about new exciting possibilities while giving a strong sense of morality and character.

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André is encouraging people to dream, people who might not typically be encouraged to or have the privileged to. He is creating a world where people recognise the artist in them so that they can explore imagination and curiosity unadulterated. 

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André is encouraging people to dream, people who might not typically be encouraged to or have the privileged to. He is creating a world where people recognise the artist in them so that they can explore imagination and curiosity unadulterated. 

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30% Dreamer
50% Builder
80% Critic

He thinks about the 360 of how to thrive. It's not just about setting up a school, it's thinking about the kids having enough to eat, how they're gonna get to school, their parents being in stable employment and the whole holistic conditions in which change can happen.

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100% builder
100% critic

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50% Builder

20% Critic

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The head teacher for Varjarian Buddhism (Tibetan)
Living in exile in India due to the communist control (Chinese Government - don't want people to have another type of leader)

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100% Dreamer
100% Builder
100% Critic

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Through the book, Shon Faye is creating humanity around the transgender experience and allowing access into their world.

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Shon Faye is
40% Dreamer
20% Builder
40% Critic

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He travels the world teaching tools that promote Religious tolerance, ethics, compassion and happiness.
He envisions a world where people realise that they don't have to continue to suffer and that we can be kind to one another and collectively save our planet. Saving our planet begins with how we teach other people, and that begins with how we treat ourselves!

Building a better world mind by mind. Empowering folks to take agency over their own thoughts, actions and words and further empowering them to work towards a positive evolution.

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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama | The 14th Dalai Lama

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Welcome to the official website of the Office of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. His Holiness is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people.

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Sci-fiction author (and much more!) who has, through her writing, has dreamt up multiple worlds while also incorporating current and contemporary issues through an afro-futurist lens.

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- London based British Nigerian Artist
- Furniture designer by background
- Completely transforming the built environment
- Making our city and spaces more joyous and fun to spend time in

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C - 5%

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- Instilling little pockets of change that are going to make kids and adults think twice at the everyday
- By bringing change to certain places he is demonstrating that change can happen here

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Yinka Ilori & LEGO team up for the Launderette of Dreams, a free, interactive art installation.

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The LEGO Group has teamed up with award-winning artist and designer Yinka Ilori to create the Launderette of Dreams, a free, interactive art installation in London that is inspired by the creative optimism and resilience of children.

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A cultural impact of blackness in science fiction and the impact that has inspired other artists and writers to create and craft new worlds for themselves.

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DREAMERS - 50%
BUILDERS - 20%
CRITICS - 30%

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MOTHERS are: Caretakers, mentors, innovators, problem solvers, managers, leaders, teachers, delegators, The magic of mothers is that they solve problems before the problems create pain or they are a passenger during this pain because they understand some lessons are learnt through experience.

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Mothers build a World that ensures….

1. All decisions are made with empathy.

2. The needs of the greater good are put before their own.

3. They’re a constant reminder to us that ‘It’s not over until it’s ok.

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Becontree is boring. An unrelieved barrage of brick houses, not quite identical, but not far off. A vast edge condition of low-rise neo-vernacular.

It is also, in its way, astonishing. When Becontree was built by London County Council after the first world war it was the biggest housing estate in the world. If the notion of a "housing estate" brings up images of high-rise slabs and concrete walkways, this is not it. This is a very British affair - cottage-style houses with front and back gardens, far enough east of the city to clear the lungs.

And this year, as it celebrates its centenary, it represents a remarkably intact survival of a hugely ambitious programme of social housing that puts current efforts to shame. Between 1921 and 1935, nearly 26,000 homes to accommodate 100,000 people were built around a central circular plan, with the living space, proper kitchens, indoor bathrooms and private gardens that seemed a heaven for those fleeing the dire poverty of London's East End slums. A train line was laid to transport building materials up from the docks and 50 miles of roads were built.

On a blustery spring day during a lockdown, there isn't much sense of centenary celebration. Becontree, unlike much of east London, has remained impressively ungentrified. But plans are in place for artists to create a series of works and interventions intended to reinforce community infrastructure and to acknowledge the particular nature of this enormous and now historic estate.

The most visible will be two new playgrounds designed by artists Eva Rothschild and Yinka Ilori. Portuguese writer Leonor Antunes is designing a series of plaques to commemorate famous residents (there have been plenty, from football managers Alf Ramsay and Terry Venables and singer Max Bygraves to Dudley Moore and former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey). There will also be permanent works by Shezad Dawood, Elsa James and Joy Labinjo, and sound installations by Joe Namy, Larry Achiampong and Emma Smith. The centenary year will culminate in an exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London by artist Verity-Jane Keefe, who has been deeply embedded in community work in Becontree for years, mining stories, details and recollections.

One of the most intriguing works to emerge from the centenary is, in contrast to the eye-catching playgrounds and installations, the most apparently banal. Keefe, with community groups, RIBA, nimtim architects and artist Katie Schwab, are attempting to reimagine the greensward corner plots that are a distinctive element of the estate. These leftover lawns, largely a result of the circular town plan and the desire to leave green space around houses, have never had their purpose truly defined. Usually fenced off with low railings, they are neither public nor private. The idea is to reinvigorate these unused patches of grass as public spaces, pocket parks in a repetitive landscape of houses and parked cars. It's a scalable project and an important idea for many suburban landscapes rich in such underused space.

Similarly, artist/designers Studio Morison have been tasked with designing a range of street furniture bespoke to Becontree. This is an estate with only minimal retail at its centre: a walk to the shops for an older person can be quite an outing. Designed using crushed rubble from local building works, the result (not yet installed) will be elegant and urbane, lending a little civic solidity to the public realm. These projects are being supported by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and other organisations, including Create London and RIBA.

Meanwhile, architect/artists muf are working at Kingsley Hall, the local community centre, to create a revived and expanded experience it refers to as "public luxury". The design is a little playful, but with enough substance to appear as a civic centre.

Rothschild's playground design is a landscape of pyramids inspired by Lego and Minecraft as much as the pharaohs

The strangest thing about Becontree is that this huge estate almost entirely lacks a civic infrastructure. The few shabby shops are a poor excuse for a shopping centre. The original plans were ambitious but, with a whiff of paternalism and Arts & Crafts puritanism, they disdained institutions such as pubs and theatres or more urban places such as squares or shopping streets. These estates were conceived as escapes from the city, transporting the working classes from booze and darkness into the fresh air; they abandoned the language of urbanity, the density, squares, main streets, avenues, mixed uses, workshops and so on. It was deliberately a dormitory suburb and the unintended consequence was a car dependency that in turn has transformed the streets into something far less amenable than the leafy future imagined - instead, a landscape of parked vehicles and underused public space.

Many of the artists' interventions aim to address, in some way, this absent public realm. The playgrounds are a splash of joy amid what can be a quite dour settlement. Ilori's vivid use of colour injects a sense of fun; Rothschild's playground design is a landscape of pyramids inspired by Lego and Minecraft as much as the pharaohs.

The aim must be to celebrate the social innovations and achievement of housing so many people in such radically improved conditions. It must also acknowledge the residents, and few artists would be better equipped than Keefe, with her almost obsessive rooting around in stories of place and people, the quirks and specificities of this estate. As we walk around she points out architectural curios, an oddly expressionistic church with spiky expressionist windows, the local tradition developed perhaps in the 1970s of pargeting (creating plaster reliefs on house fronts: wheatsheaves, squirrels, flowers). The four square mile estate is so vast it has developed its own ornamental language related more to aspirations to the pastoral than any architectural fashion.

All these quirks will be celebrated in the exhibition at RIBA but the interventions must also acknowledge the failures. Becontree was a model for how to build decent housing for the masses in a hurry and it has endured incredibly well. It remains imperfect, but this blast of art is an unmissable opportunity to address some of those imperfections, to appreciate the scale of what was achieved and to ask why provision of decent housing and ambition seems so unachievable today.
architecture.com Edwin Heathcote Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first is the FT's architecture and design critic ; becontreeforever.uk

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