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 Lindley Hall: An Indoor Food Forest
An indoor food forest under the lights of the RHS's iconic Lindley 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.
3.5 Poles
A clothing collaboration rooted in Tottenham — fieldwear, utility and local landscapes stitched together with natural dyes from Markfield community garden.
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.