Heart of the Elephant


May 2024


Multi-Platform Magazine 
Advisors – Anne Coddington and Oswin Tickler
Editor – Derek Walmsley
While studying in London, I wanted to get to know the existing community around my new school. What lies beyond the tall concrete tower of London College of Communication (LCC)? My research took me across centuries of urban development, economic contractions, and gentrification in the Elephant and Castle neighborhood: from its beginnings as a crossroad into the City of London into a working-class neighborhood, and future developments into an area catered towards more economically-advantaged university students.

This zine combines contemporary and archival research and images from LCC's special collection  Southwark archives and 56a Infoshop (a local social center and informal archive). 

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