Who We Are
Wayward is an award-winning London-based design, landscape and placemaking practice, best known for pioneering meanwhile spaces that transform overlooked and underused land into culturally activated green spaces. For nearly 20 years, our work has gone beyond design, using creative engagement and curation to bring spaces to life and invite people to become part of them. Wayward designed and built Cultivate Colindale and is now based on site, running and stewarding the space as it grows and evolves through new partnerships and possibilities.
Wayward
Wayward Plants is a pioneering circular landscape initiative and emerging charity that rescues surplus plants, trees and landscape materials and redistributes them to communities across London. The Wayward Plants Reuse Centre at Cultivate Colindale is a hub for plant rescue, propagation and redistribution, addressing both the nature gap and the waste crisis. More than a materials yard and propagation centre, it is a space for exchange, collaboration and experimentation through workshops, events and new approaches to landscape reuse.
Wayward Plants
Notting Hill Genesis is a housing association working with communities across London and the South East to provide good-quality, affordable homes and support thriving neighbourhoods. As Cultivate Colindale’s development partner, they are helping to embed community space, green infrastructure and opportunities for local participation within the wider transformation of Grahame Park.
Notting Hill Genesis
Our Core Partners
Energy Garden is a community energy organisation supporting people across London to create thriving gardens, improve biodiversity and take action on climate change. They combine community-owned renewable energy with gardening, education and youth training, using income from their solar projects to support green spaces and community programmes across the city.
At Cultivate Colindale, Energy Garden brings their expertise in community gardening and renewable energy to the site. They run regular volunteer sessions and have provided solar power, helping to power our workshops, events and day-to-day activities.
Energy Garden
Bio-ID is a research and design programme at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, exploring the intersection of biology, technology and the built environment. Working across design, science and digital fabrication, Bio-ID investigates new ways of working with living systems and sustainable materials to imagine the environments of the future.
Bio-ID is using Cultivate Colindale and the Wayward Plants Reuse Centre as a living laboratory, testing ideas around soil regeneration, water and materials and sharing their research through workshops, exhibitions and participation on site.
BioID
Rescued Clay works with clay excavated from local construction sites, transforming what would otherwise be waste into a resource for making, learning and experimentation. Their work brings together material research, ceramics, design and community workshops, exploring how locally sourced materials can support more sustainable ways of making.
Taking up residence at Cultivate Colindale, Rescued Clay will be running community workshops and developing new site initiatives and creative collaborations.