COMMUNITY, CREATIVITY & CONVERSATION - UNLOCKING NEW HOUSING IN EUSTON
During autumn of 2025, we’re working with Camden Council as part of their wider work on housing with the Euston Housing Delivery Group, set up by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to help deliver much-needed new homes (including affordable) and the facilities to support them in the Euston area.
BLUEPRINTS
EUSTON’S FESTIVAL OF COMMUNITY-POWERED HOUSING
Euston is going through a major transformation and needs a better future.
Blueprints is a fun and inspiring series of events centred on community, creativity and conversation, exploring innovative approaches to housing, neighbourhood development, and the community power that would make it all possible.
Drop in to ODAC to explore and add to a model neighbourhood crafted by residents, Me & Youston, and join interactive creative activities, workshops, talks, conversations and shared meals. Officers from Camden Council will also be on hand to support with any Council-related matters.
ODAC believes creativity should be part of tackling the big challenges our society faces. Blueprints brings together residents, community organisations, artists and urban development professionals to explore the possibilities together.
Later this year, in collaboration with the Euston Housing Delivery Group, Camden Council will convene the Euston Housing Community Forum, where residents will develop a framework to guide future housing delivery in the Euston area. Your thoughts and ideas shared at Blueprints will play a crucial role in informing this framework. Want to be a part of the Euston Housing Community Forum? Apply before Wednesday 22 October.
FIRST EVENTS ANNOUNCED
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EACH DAY - DROP IN
12PM-6.30PM
PLAY & THINK: Me & Youston
A giant (tiny) soft-play neighbourhood ready for you to play with.
Using the power of art and make-believe, Me + Youston is an interactive model neighbourhood that we need your help to build.
Over 14 workshops, artists from Old Diorama Arts Centre have discovered community aspirations for our future Euston, and now the Neighbourhood Studio is alive with these ideas! Everything from our dream homes, to the places we want to visit in our local area, have been created by Euston residents out of felt then lovingly 3D-ified into colourful building blocks, waiting for you to come and help us arrange and rearrange our dream neighbourhood. For people of all ages, join in and create a community-powered, large-scale, interactive artwork that maps a future home for us all; Me + Youston.
12PM-5PM (WEDS-FRI ONLY)
SURGERY: Camden Council - ‘Ask me anything’
Camden Council staff will be on hand to chat and support with any Council-related matters.
Location: ODAC Neighbourhood Studio (private conversation space available if required)
WEDNESDAY 29TH OCTOBER
6.30PM-8.30PM
BIG IDEAS: Building a platform for our voice
To start off the festival, this interactive workshop will talk about how we can build a platform for our area to speak up. It will explore the values and powers we would want it to have. There will be practical activities and examples of different kinds of platforms, from an informal network to a Community Council. Led by Jason Leman, Neighbourhood Democracy Lead for Citizen Network.
Refreshments provided.
Most suitable for: adults.
Location: ODAC Studio 6
THURSDAY 30TH OCTOBER
12PM-7PM
PLAY & THINK: Hope is an Active Verb - Temporary Tattoo Parlour
Tattoos speak of things that matter to us deeply. Artists YARA + DAVINA have worked with Regent’s Park and Somers Town residents to design a series of tattoos with mottos about the change we each need to make towards climate action, and start a conversation about how we care for our planet.
Designed in collaboration with local residents, these temporary tattoos centre climate conscious mottos and ideas to help us embed planet-helping habits into our lives by offering us a daily reminder.
Come and get inked from 12pm - 7pm on Thursday 30th October in the ODAC foyer.
Most suitable for: everyone.
6.30PM-8.30PM
BIG IDEAS: What should a community-powered neighbourhood be like?
Join local activists, built environment professionals, artists and thinkers for a fun and inspiring evening of presentations and conversation, bringing together real-life examples and ideas, imagining - and proving - what community-powered neighbourhoods can be.
Confirmed speakers: Nabil Al-Kinani (Hood Preservation & Futurist Association); Diana Foster (A Space for Us); Paulette Singer (Our Yard at Clitterhouse Farm); Milli-Rose (writer and musician, Crossword Lyric), Sem Lee (founder of urban research consultancy OURI Labs); Eleonora Andronaco (Juniper Crescent, Camden housing activist and actor); Tim Oshodi (Downham Community Land Trust and community-led regeneration consultant), Dee Searle (Kentish Town Neighbourhood Forum) and Dr Silvie Jacobi (NW3 Community Land Trust).
Presentations will be followed by a group discussion.
Refreshments provided.
Location: ODAC Studio 6
1PM - 2PM
PLAY & THINK: Live Together, Eat Together
Eating together strengthens social bonds, boosts mental health, and promotes a sense of belonging and community. That’s surely what we want from our homes and neighbourhoods too. So join us for a free lunch and a conversation about how best to make that dream a reality.
Location: ODAC Studio 6
Most suitable for: everyone, families welcome
FRIDAY 31ST OCTOBER
1:30PM and 3:30PM
BIG IDEAS: Beyond the Negatives
An interactive storytelling experience by One Roof, ODAC's community of homelessness-experienced artists.
Working together in partnership is about more than putting in your two cents while others are putting in theirs. It's about being able to imagine the experience of a situation from another person's perspective: see what they see, hear what they hear, need what they need.
A handful of pre-selected audience members will take on different characters to become a committee deciding how to approach some key homelessness-related issues in Camden. You will all then see a snapshot of what result those choices might bring. Expect poetry, visual art, drama, and doubtless fascinating conversations.
Most suitable for: all adults - professionals working in the built environment are especially encouraged!
Location: ODAC Studio 6
SATURDAY 1ST NOVEMBER
11.30AM-1.30PM
BIG IDEAS: How do we claim power in the planning system and get organised to make decisions?
There’s a real opportunity to build a better future for Euston. What can we do to claim it? Facilitated with Naomi Rubbra of Footwork, this is a chance for some detailed conversations on inspiring and possible ideas. To close Blueprints, what can we take forward to the Euston Housing Community Forum, where a decision will be made?
Want to be a part of the Euston Housing Community Forum? Apply before Wednesday 22 October.
Lunch provided
Location: ODAC Studio 6
