Thu 23 Jul 2026, 6.30 - 8pm
Assembly Room
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 11am–6pm |
| Wednesday | 11am–6pm |
| Thursday | 11am–9pm |
| Friday | 11am–6pm |
| Saturday | 11am–6pm |
| Sunday | 11am–6pm |
Access requirements
The Whitechapel Gallery is committed to making all of our events as accessible as possible for every audience member. Please contact access@whitechapelgallery.org if you would like to discuss a particular request and we will gladly discuss with you the best way to accommodate it.
Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
About This Event
This event takes place in the Assembly Room at Whitechapel Gallery, located on the ground floor.
This event lasts approximately 1.5 hours. There are no rest breaks currently scheduled during this event.
You must purchase a ticket to attend the event. If you require a Personal Assistant to support your attendance, we can offer them a place free of charge, but it must be arranged in advance.
If the ticket price affects your attendance, please email tickets@whitechapelgallery.org to be added to the guest list (no questions asked, but dependent on availability).
This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
Transport
To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Live Recording
Please note: this event will be recorded and filmed for the Whitechapel Gallery Archive and future online publication.
Join us for a discussion about the urgent need for public and civic spaces, and the role of gentrification.
Chaired by Whitechapel Gallery Director Gilane Tawadros, contributors to the discussion also include the artist Rehana Zaman, whose work appears in our new sumer exhibition East of the Aldgate Pump; writer, critic and Chair of Resonance FM, K. Biswas, and Nina Jang, an interdisciplinary spatial designer, researcher and educator who is also a member of RESOLVE Collective and a supporter of the Save Soanes campaign.
The panel will consider three key questions, moving from local concerns in East London to global perspectives, alongside opportunities for audience questions and contributions:
Art Futures is a major new Whitechapel Gallery series which looks at the role of public art institutions at a time of multiple crises, bringing together audiences with artists, writers, academics and policy-makers to collectively imagine alternative visions.
Art Futures is generously supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Rehana Zaman is an artist working across film, performance, writing and collaborative projects. Her practice considers kinship, care and collective experience, using conversation and cooperative methods to explore intimacy, resistance and forms of social connection. https://rehanazaman.com/
K. Biswas is a critic who has written for the New Statesman, The Observer, New York Times, The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Baffler, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is the Editor of Representology: The Journal of Media and Diversity, and Director of Europe’s largest community radio station, Resonance FM.
Nina Jang is an interdisciplinary spatial designer, researcher and educator. Informed by in-between spaces of cultural practice, they use materials and process-led creative production of convening, generative systems of knowledge exchange and collective (re)building of archives.
Nina is part of RESOLVE Collective and Eastern Margins. They also support the ongoing Save Soanes campaign with Setpoint London East to secure a long-term lease of the youth education Soanes Centre in Tower Hamlets. Nina is also part of the fundraising strategy group at ESEA Community Centre in Dalston.
Musings include the recently premiered docu-narrative short film LINKS (2026) in partnership with Undercommons Collective and London Community Video Archive (LCVA) and a forthcoming artist residency in Rotterdam.
