How Does Skateboarding Shape Cities? is an event hosted at the Design Museum next week.

A panel of skaters, academics, designers and makers including Iain Borden, Charlie Davis, Sam Elstub, Charles Myatt and Esther Sayers, will discuss skate spaces, communities and culture.

Skateboarding is everywhere: in urban streets and plazas, DIY constructions, multi-story projects, pop up ramps and bowls in retail spaces, parks and the Olympic games. How are skateboarders influencing urban politics and social enterprise? How does the design of skate spaces facilitate intergenerational connections?

The speakers will look at ways skateboarders rethink the parameters of the built environment, author DIY spaces, build communities and impact culture, commerce and spatial politics.

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Sam Elstub is a skateboarder and chartered landscape architect who graduated from the MLA Landscape Architecture programme at the University of Greenwich in 2018.