Barking Metamorphosis is an arts and writing project involving UrbanWords, the writer Yemisi Blake, Platform 2 product design students at the Royal College of Arts, muf Architecture/Art, and Barking and Dagenham Council.

Sarah Butler, UrbanWords
Sarah Butler runs UrbanWords, a literature and regeneration consultancy which initiates and delivers projects which explore the relationship between writing, narrative and place. She is managing Barking Metamorphosis as part of a programme of writing and regeneration work in the London Thames Gateway, part-funded by Arts Council England.


