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The Scene Collective: WACFS (2026)

Facilitation

The Scene Collective is a creative after-school club meets youth club, held between two Harris Academy schools and funded by the Southwark Council Culture Together Grant. The programme and collective are led by artists Molly Burrows and Catherine Morton-Abuah. 

Over twelve weeks, 24 students aged 11–14 were introduced to a range of creative worlds, including architecture, art, music curation and poetry. This year’s programme culminated in a live event, hosted by the students and open to the public.

As a strand of Let Me Land, Sarah Osei shared architecture as an ethnographic practice with the students. They were then tasked with designing high street banners that reimagined Peckham’s Rye Lane public realm. Drawing on their own lived experiences and those of the people who occupy the high street, they used these perspectives as a starting point for symbol ideation.  



Images: Bold Tendencies



Information

SABO Works is a South London-based architectural and cultural practice founded by Sarah Osei, grounded in lived experiences, multiculturalism and social justice.

Sarah Osei is trained in Architecture and Spatial Practice, working at the intersections of ethnography, policy and architectures through methodologies of the diaspora. Her work is site-specific, amplifying the lesser-heard dialogues of the capital as a means towards celebrating them.  
‘SABO, pronounced [saa-boh], is derived from the Hausa language and means “something new.”

In this context, SABO also functions as an acronym, representing a lineage of names that not only reflects the methodologies of this architectural practice, but also acknowledges a duality of heritages, multicultural identities, and ongoing dialogues deeply rooted in the London periphery - where I was born and raised - but often journeying from beyond’ - Sarah, Amma/Adutwumwaa/Adams, Basoah, Osei.