Part of What The Wild Things Are , our artist research collaboration with @westdeancollege , @wellcomecollection , and @delawarr , #LIDO is a leisure space and exhibition on the ground floor gallery of the De La Warr pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea. It is the result of a programme of collaborative design ‘forages’ with young people from @bexhillcollege and @blueprintdlwp .

These ‘forages’ incorporated a range of methods, from flint knapping to audio-walking, as ways of gathering local materials, memories, and architectural forms from Bexhill, led by the tacit local knowledges and emotional connections of the young people. As such, LIDO invokes civic typologies that were popularised in UK coastal towns in the 1930’s and that were often themselves ‘foraged’ from the sea: littoral in name and in nature. Here, you can eat, relax, convene, and converse, immersed in the knowledges and experiences of the project’s young collaborators, whilst the space is also open throughout the summer as a meeting and operation space for local community organisations.

Since its inception the space has seen some beautiful moments, from Bexhill College Art and Design's E200's landmark takeover and fashion show to a number of exciting artist interventions and community uses such as @nancy_odufona’s pebble-binding workshop and Beccy Mccray's ‘Climate Hack Lab’

A heartfelt thanks goes out to Joseph Constable & Dee Haugh. Also, to the the DLWP technical team, and of course Sarah Hughes , Rosie Cooper, and Barbara Munoz.