Culture
Photo cr: Curtis Benjamin
Music · Fashion · Public Space
African Street Style London
Four editions reimagining the Boundary Estate, Calvert Avenue, Boundary Circus and Shoreditch Church through music, fashion, art and public discussion.
Cultural and artistic production bringing together music, film, movement, public space, debate and international collaboration
Film · Archive · Diaspora
Progress
A multidisciplinary body of work using film, movement, poetry, archive and public discourse to examine history, diaspora, identity and place.
Music · Culture · London
Sound System City
An ongoing enquiry into London's sound-system culture and its relationship with music, technology, migration, politics, place and cultural identity.
Place
Harlesden Heritage Action Zone
Town centre · Conservation
£750k
More than fifteen years of managing regeneration, public realm, high street, heritage and neighbourhood projects across London.
Writings
Briefings about streets, cities, culture, memory, public life and the ways we experience place.
Jeffrey Lennon
I work across culture and place, bringing together more than fifteen years of experience in urban regeneration with an independent practice in creative and cultural production.
My regeneration work is pragmatic, collaborative and delivery-focused. I have developed and managed programmes across high streets, town centres, housing estates, neighbourhoods, parks, public realm and community spaces — bringing together residents, designers, local authorities, developers, schools and specialist teams to move projects from ideas and engagement through to investment, commissioning and delivery.
Alongside this, I develop and produce cultural and artistic projects that explore identity, music, movement, heritage, politics and our relationship with place. My perspective is both local and international: from projects rooted in London's streets and neighbourhoods to collaborations and creative interventions connecting cities and communities in Europe, Africa and the Caribbean.
These two strands continually inform one another. The curiosity, experimentation and cultural instincts I bring to artistic projects influence how I think about regeneration; the experience of making complex projects happen in real places gives my cultural work a practical understanding of people, institutions and cities.
For me, culture and place are not separate interests. They are connected ways of understanding — and influencing — how people experience the world around them.