The multifaceted experience of a wheelchair user and/or a skateboarder is often riddled with prejudice and restraint.

However, the ways in which both communities experience the urban realm repeatedly proves to break out of social norms. As true experts of the built environment – negotiating it at every pot hole, curb, stair or slope – these so-called ‘unruly’ people with ‘unruly’ bodies begin to unravel alternative ways of looking at the design of public spaces.

Instead of designing the ordinary, for the ordinary and instead, valuing the rich diversity of these perceived ‘problematic’ communities, we steer away from limiting building regulations, rules, binary categorisation and assumptions.

Urban Appendage aims to create somewhat rebellious wooden appendages for the street furniture and terrain of Newhaven to assist in the defiance of ‘ordinary’ everyday activity.