Xantho implemented an intensive 2-week educational architectural workshop. During the workshop, 14 participants worked together to contribute to critical-architectural discourse on the moral and physical abandonment of urban spaces.

During the first week, almost 20 abandoned buildings and sites in Sheffield were visited. Participants learned about the Space Nursing practice, its methodology and academic context. During the second week, participants and workshop facilitators created experimental architectural interventions in abandoned spaces.

The workshop concluded with a presentation of the participants’ interventions and public tours of abandoned sites in Sheffield. The public tours attracted over 200 participants and were captured by the group’s photographers, with a particular focus on the “Cornish Works” territory in the rapidly gentrified historic area of Kelham Island.