Rewilding the Forgotten Commons Part 2 Project 2025 Allice Grodon Leeds Beckett University | UK ‘Rewilding the Forgotten Commons’ explores the future relationship between the natural environment and human-made structures. The project is focused on the Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks surrounded by the raw natural regrowth of the Channelsea Island Site and investigates the potential for a more reciprocal relationship between the human-made and the natural world. Situated between Bow Creek and the River Lea, the site was once dominated by industrial activity but is now host to various fragile yet resilient ecologies that has evolved in response to the contamination and neglect. The project seeks to explore and celebrate these unexpected and organic forms of nature that have emerged within the urban fabric. By working with the remaining structures of the gasworks, the project reimagines the site as a new form of urban commons, a space governed by ecological processes, where humans are no longer the primary occupiers but become temporary guests among other species. The site becomes a working prototype for reversing the impacts of industrialisation at the urban edge of cities and becomes apart of testing operations between species, systems and infrastructures.Three gasholders reflect an architectural response for mutualism: Gasholder of Hiveworks, Natural Gasholder of Oasis and Gasholder of EchoDome. Tutor(s)