provocations on repair /

repair for preservation

2023/24

esin gumus

marginal gains

Esin Gumus walks the shoreline of Limehouse and listens to its stories. Her project emerges from the riverbank—a new pier and interpretation centre that makes visible the forgotten maritime past of Limehouse Hole Stairs. With each tide, the centre shifts in meaning and accessibility, mirroring the rhythms of the River Thames. Using salvaged shoreline materials and rubble, Esin created exhibition spaces and craft workshops where river-dredged debris becomes resource. The project offers a space for rewilding, historical reflection, and skill exchange, inviting locals to engage with the river not as backdrop but as archive and partner. In her hands, repair is historical—an act of unburying and re-situating collective memory through architecture.