This book presents an action research project carried out between Autumn 2010 and Winter 2011 in the open space between three social- housing blocks in Gateshead, in the North- East of England, with a view to demonstrate how spatial quality can emerge by means of temporary interventions bringing about mental and physical appropriation.

In the context of the disused outdoor space of a Housing Estate, this research seeks to answer the question of ‘whose space is it?’, unearth new meanings and uses from which emerges a new collective use and memory. It also establishes the agency of space in altering power and institutional relationships.