COMMONGROUND.
Wild City Studio brings together landscape, publishing, photography, research and community practice to explore the relationship between people, nature and the city. Each project forms part of a wider body of work, testing ideas, building partnerships and documenting new ways of imagining urban futures.
Every Child Deserves the Chance to Be Wild
Taking a class of schoolchildren into the wild edges of the city, foraging, planting, pond-dipping and paying attention.
The Markfield Legacy Garden
A collaboration between Haringey Council, The Friends of Markfield Park, Wild City Studio and a wealth of volunteers, a wild, immersive community garden in the heart of Tottenham.
The Balance Garden: RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023
A show garden as urban healing, repurposed materials, low-cost planting, and a legacy rehomed at Markfield Park.
Tynemouth Rd Health Centre
A large, unused lawn at a Tottenham health centre reimagined as a zero-waste nature play garden, foraging, food forestry and imaginative play at its heart.
Future Fest: The Garden
An indoor immersive garden for Nesta's 2018 Future Fest, a tactile journey through a dystopian urban ecology.
RHS Lindlay Hall: An Indoor Food Forest
An indoor food forest under the lights of the RHS's iconic Lindlay Hall, edimentals, permaculture and edible mushrooms.
RHS Hampton Court Flower Show: Garden for a Changing World
The London Glades garden at Hampton Court Flower Show 2017 presented an optimistic urban garden shaped by edible forestry, biodiversity and ecological sensitivity.
Roots and Rebels. A movement was born
Easter weekend at Markfield, street murals meet potato planting, in collaboration with Snooze Fabric and Friends of Markfield Park.
The Arbour, Walthamstow. An Urban Food Forest
A carbon-negative residential landscape, layered planting, reused materials and a new benchmark for urban garden design.
Markfield Rd Festival 2024
A community festival in Markfield Park, music, speeches, the mayor and the unveiling of the Legacy Garden and Orchard.
Markfield Rd Festival 2025
Bringing the art of creative resistance to the heart of Tottenham.
A Markfield Spritz
In collab with Crucible we celebrated Markfield Community Garden with its own drink made from its very own fruit.
Corporate connections
Volunteer days and a much-needed break from the office. In need of a nature connection?
Gladesmore Gardening Crew
Friday lunchtimes with Emma Beale and the crew from Gladesmore Community School, newts, Japanese wine berries and a garden that might, one day, be as big as Kew.