Cricklewood, in North West London, is a community on the borders of three boroughs, and thus tends to be civically ignored: it has no public space, no town hall, no library, not even a single bench.

In response, Spacemakers created Cricklewood Town Square, a mobile public space, which could roam across the area, reclaiming forgotten patches of land, and transforming them with a programme of events into civic space for everyone to use.

From a disused grass space next to B&Q, to an empty pavement outside the Bingo Hall, the project was a bicycle-powered Trojan Horse, aiming to set a precedent: to demonstrate to a neglected community (in a very pop way) how useful public space can be, and how vital it is in forming a community in the first place.

Cricklewood Town Square ran in September 2013. It was designed in collaboration with Studio Kieren Jones, funded by the Mayor of London's Outer London Fund and LB Barnet, and was part of a wider series of projects led by Gort Scott Architects. Photography by Theo Simpson.