Wayward is an award-winning London-based design and placemaking practice working internationally across landscape and public space. For nearly 20 years, we have pioneered new approaches to meanwhile spaces, transforming overlooked and underused land into ambitious public projects shaped through participation and driven by narrative.

From temporary installations and public landscapes to long-term community infrastructure, our projects often begin with a site but rarely end with design alone. We create platforms for collaboration and creative exchange, bringing together communities, artists, institutions and unexpected partners around shared ideas and collective action.

Many of our projects are participatory and hands-on, involving design-build processes and forms of stewardship that continue long after construction ends. Working with temporary sites taught us to think beyond the moment a project opens and consider its wider journey over time. Today, we think about the whole life of landscapes, considering not only how places come into being, but how they continue and change. Increasingly, this means thinking about what happens after a project ends and designing with future adaptation and conscious deconstruction in mind.

This thinking has shaped Wayward Plants, our long-running initiative exploring landscape reuse and circular systems. What began as idiosyncratic adoption events for unwanted plants evolved into one of the UK’s most ambitious reuse initiatives and, after a decade as the Official Reuse Partner of the Royal Horticultural Society, is now entering a new chapter as an independent charity. Through Cultivate Colindale, our most ambitious meanwhile space to date and home of the Wayward Plants Reuse Centre, we are developing a new model for how temporary land can support long-term change.