Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Tuesday Greenidge is a regular at North Kensington Library, where you\u2019ll often find her sewing at its large communal desk. When we meet in February, she is wearing a khaki raincoat made, not coincidentally, from Grenfell cloth. Greenidge, a textile artist, has lived in this west London neighbourhood for\u00a0more than 30 years. For the past eight, she has been working on her greatest masterpiece, a 220ft by 72ft hanging art piece: the Grenfell Memorial Quilt.\u00a0\u201cWe wanted to commemorate the people we knew,\u201d says Greenidge. Her\u00a0daughter, Charlie, was one of the survivors the night of\u00a014 June 2017 when\u00a0Grenfell Tower, a 24-storey social-housing block in the centre\u00a0of the\u00a0community, set alight. The fire took\u00a072\u00a0lives, sparking one of the biggest human-rights crises in recent British history. Subsequent research has discovered that 70\u00a0per cent of the UK\u2019s social housing towers have fire safety issues such as flammable cladding, ineffective fire\u00a0doors\u00a0or broken emergency lighting.\u00a0After seeing the offerings of flowers, teddies and hearts \u2013\u00a0the green heart in particular has become synonymous with\u00a0the Grenfell community \u2013 left as tributes on the neighbouring streets following the disaster, Greenidge was inspired to immortalise the tragedy in a quilt. \u201cThere were clothes just dumped in the area,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen we were sorting them, we were crying. They were rags. We\u2019re making something beautiful.\u201d \u00a0Drawing reference from the\u00a0Aids Memorial Quilt pioneered by US\u00a0activist Cleve\u00a0Jones as a memorial for those who had died of the disease (to which Greenidge contributed while visiting the London Lighthouse clinic located next to Grenfell in the 1990s), Greenidge wanted to create an artwork in\u00a0the dimensions of the tower block that could be easily separated for individual commemorations. Pieces of the quilt have since been exhibited at the Notting Hill Methodist Church, Alexandra Palace and Birmingham\u2019s Festival of Quilts. Greenidge began researching the American jelly-roll technique, where bundles of pre-cut fabric strips are stitched together. She describes the process as \u201c#Rags-to-ritsch-kitsch-bitsch\u201d, with\u00a0most of the original fabric sourced from sheets\u00a0and old shirts. \u00a0The first panel \u2013 a 12ft by 12ft piece with a\u00a0patch dedicated to Raymond \u201cMoses\u201d Bernard, who died alongside six other victims in his top-floor flat \u2013 was completed in 2018. Greenidge\u2019s once \u201cnomadic group\u201d of sewers has since become a unit of 15 to 20 people who meet at the library every week. Anyone is welcome, from fashion students to members of Whitstable\u2019s Profanity Embroidery Group, whose tapestries promote the \u201cstress-relieving\u201d properties of\u00a0swearing. Crochet hearts and flowers from crafting communities in Brazil and Mumbai have also been received.\u00a0It was a quiet\u00a0thing, providing a\u00a0moment of\u00a0peaceMore recently, Greenidge has teamed up\u00a0with the Quilters\u2019 Guild, establishing a network of sewing bees in libraries around the country to help finish the quilt in time for Grenfell\u2019s 10th anniversary in 2027, and\u00a0also to ensure that community crafts continue beyond its completion. Colourful and eclectic, the quilt has grown to 220ft by\u00a012ft \u2013 50ft in width off Greenidge\u2019s target. One tapestry records the names of\u00a0the 72 victims; a panel \u2013 \u201cForget Me Not\u201d\u00a0\u2013 recalls the grid-like structure of the\u00a0building in a tie-dye mirage. Greenidge points to\u00a0another small patch emblazoned with the northern star \u201cto set spirits free\u201d and a boxing-themed eulogy for Tony Disson, who was a trainer at a small boxing club on\u00a0Grenfell\u2019s lower floors. They have lost\u00a0count of the number of hearts. The goal\u00a0is to hang the finished quilt in a prominent location and to photograph each\u00a0heart for an upcoming book. \u00a0Greenidge\u2019s earliest collaborator was Alexandra Brown, a Savile Row tailor who taught her how to sew. The pair met in 2012\u00a0at 240Project, a local health centre for\u00a0those affected by homelessness and exclusion where Brown was volunteering and is now a\u00a0wellbeing officer. \u201cThe healing that has taken place through the making of the quilt\u00a0is something that cannot be put into words,\u201d she says. \u201cTuesday has brought the\u00a0community together at a time of great sadness, transmuting grief and creating the most beautiful tribute.\u201d Further support has\u00a0come from BBC radio presenter Eddie Nestor, whose call for volunteers and fabric donations in 2022 launched Sewing for Justice, a\u00a0collective of\u00a0 \u201ccraftivists\u201d \u2013 where\u00a0crafting meets activism \u2013 \u201cartivists\u201d and \u201csewists\u201d contributing to the quilt.\u00a0\u201cWhat I always liked about the quilt was that, in a space which is very noisy, very chaotic and has become quite performative, it was this quiet thing going on in the background, providing people with a moment of peace,\u201d says Kimia Zabihyan of Grenfell Next of Kin, a group representing the bereaved families. Later this month the group will present an installation at the Milan Triennial\u2019s Cities exhibition, where the quilt will be displayed in front of\u00a0its largest audience yet.\u201cIt\u2019s going to be global,\u201d says Greenidge, who points to flammable cladding \u2013 found to be the \u201cprincipal cause for rapid fire spread\u201d at Grenfell \u2013 as a worldwide issue. Of the 4,613 buildings above 11m in the UK\u00a0that have been identified as having non-compliant cladding, only 1,350 have completed remediation. The crisis stretches to India, China and Australia, where a 23-storey apartment block was obliterated by a cladding fire three years before Grenfell.The exhibition in Milan follows the UK\u00a0government\u2019s recent announcement that Grenfell\u2019s structure will be demolished, a process expected to take two years. \u201cI\u2019m\u00a0not one of the bereaved, I\u2019m not one of\u00a0the survivors,\u201d says Greenidge. \u201cBut it\u2019s\u00a0not safe. It\u2019s falling down. Let\u2019s turn it\u00a0into a wonderful space where we can all\u00a0unite.\u201d The quilt, she says, \u201cis part of a\u00a0legacy project. We\u2019d like to\u00a0encourage it\u00a0to\u00a0continue as a way for people to understand social justice \u2013 and\u00a0social justice starts at home.\u201d \u00a0Cities is at\u00a0Triennale Milano from\u00a013 May to 9 November, triennale.org\/en\/events\/cities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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