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PROJECT: FITZ&SITS, PART OF LFA2025
Following the success of Rabbit Warren Street in 2024, The Fitzrovia Partnership has teamed up again with London Festival of Architecture (LFA) to showcase a new public realm scheme. In response to a shortage of public seating in the area, we’re creating innovative, temporary seating solutions.
LFA2025 will see the unveiling of Fitz&Sits, a series of nine creative seats across the district. The seats will form part of a trail around Fitzrovia and encourage the local community to pause, connect and enjoy their surroundings. A local business has sponsored each seat, which will be in place throughout the festival in June and possibly the summer months.
Fitz&Sits aligns with the LFA2025 theme, Voices, which will create new and inclusive places to meet to encourage conversation and story-telling.
As this is a local community initiative, there are several ways you can get involved.
Spring Clean your Unwanted Fabrics before 8 April
Fabric donations are needed to create fabric tiles which will be used in one of the bench constructions. If you have unwanted clothes, bed linen, curtains in a single colour, please drop them off to LDG on Great Titchfield Street, Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm, before 8 April.
Get involved in the creative process
A couple of artists and seat designers are looking for help from the local community to develop their sustainable seats as part of the temporary seat installations for LFA2025 in Fitzrovia.
Join a concrete tile-making workshop on Saturday 10 May at the Fitzrovia Community Centre
Be part of the creative process to make tiles for a wonderful bench that remembers the history and impact that Virginia Wolfe had in Fitzrovia. Lasting 1.5 hours, learn how to craft tiles that may be used in the seat construction or can be taken home.
Places will be available to book here soon.
Whitfield Street (opposite Chitty Street) |
Goodge Street/Charlotte Street |
Howland Street/Cleveland Street |
Windmill Street |
Fitzrovia Westminster
Mortimer Street/Berners Street |
Berners Street |
Mortimers Street/Great Titchfield Street |
Great Titchfield Street/New Cavendish Street |
Clipstone Street/Great Titchfield Street |
The Fitzrovia Partnership will be responsible for the seats in Fitzrovia throughout the promotion.
If you have any queries, please contact us:
email: info@fitzroviapartnership.com
Telephone: 020 3146 4260
The artist designed seats will be installed the week beginning Tuesday 27 May (after the bank holiday).
The Fitzrovia Partnership, the area’s local Business Improvement District, is managing the placemaking intervention which includes any day-to-day assistance. The seats are sponsored by local businesses.
The seats and their locations have been through a vigorous planning application process with the Local Authorities.
The Fitzrovia Partnership will be responsible for the cleaning, maintenance and security of the seats during the promotion. Daily checks will be done by the Street Warden team and the Fitz-Rover, the cleaning vehicle.
email: info@fitzroviapartnership.com
Contact details will be provided for out of office hours.
Fitzrovia is a Destination for the 2025 Festival which will be a Fitzrovia-wide celebration with more than 20 events throughout June.
Fitzrovia Lates takes place on Thursday 26 June from 6pm – 9pm and is a diverse and inclusive evening of events, workshops and exhibitions for Londoners and visitors to explore architectural practices in the district.
Developed collaboratively with local stakeholders, these events bring together creativity, community and city-making practices which reflect the unique identities of people and the area.
To complement the Fitz&Sits trail, we will be holding our popular
Free Food and Drink Trail in June. This is a whole day event for local workers, residents and visitors to explore the incredible hospitality industry Fitzrovia is known for.
The 2025 trail will take place across two consecutive Tuesdays in June, with one trail being savoury and one being a sweet trail. It will lead participants around three distinct food quarters in Fitzrovia – Charlotte Street, Warren Street and Great Titchfield Street.
Savoury trail – Tuesday 10 June, 8am – 7pm
Sweet trail – Tuesday 17 June, 8am – 7pm
If you are a venue and would like to get involved, please email Hannah.
The Fitzrovia Partnership provides a cohesive approach to help businesses achieve shared objectives and as an area we are making great strides to achieve a more economic and environmentally sustainable district. 
Fiona Clark, Board Member
Practice Director and Co-owner, David Miller Architects
5th Floor
175/176 Tottenham Court Road
London
W1T 7NX
Tel: 020 3146 4260
Email: info@fitzroviapartnership.com
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https://westfitzrovia.com/
