Living Continuity is a collective inquiry on the challenges and opportunities of working towards spatially just neighbourhoods. Session VI explores the importance of amplifying and enabling community voices. What are the challenges, incremental and transformative actions necessary to challenge current systems that exclude and marginalize the global majority? How can modes of research support modes of resistance? Ailo Ribas shares her fieldwork and experiences with alternative ecology practices in the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve in London, UK, asking how such practices can nurture wellbeing and disrupt a city culture of production, consumption, and excess.

Ailo Ribas is a trans writer, researcher, community organiser and archivist. Her work seeks to build networks of knowledge-sharing and storytelling within and between communities around the topics of trans care, plants, urban ecologies and witchcraft. She is a graduate of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University and a founding member of the artist research collective Al-Wah'at.