"...the Bourgeoisie and the Rebel"
by Toby Maloy


The planning proposal for Russell Sq. is "Music makes the people come together, Music Makes the Bourgeoisie and the Rebel" created by Toby Maloy.

The name of the work is a quotation of a celebrated song of the new neighbour in town. The work is aiming to regenerate the spaces of rave parties that used to be in London before the public order act was implemented. The proposal is also commemorating and aiming to restore the gay sexual activities that have made Russell Square famous (or infamous) since the beginning of the last century. In a way this proposal is a conservation, not of the built form of the square but its human landscape.

In architectural terms the work deploys almost zero architecture - the event space is created by sound and human interaction rather than by physical structures. Maloy created a public space in which non- architects (the cruisers for sex) are activating, by their presence and actions, a sound wall that surrounds the square, and by that, creates the space for the free (rave) party in the middle of the square.