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Announcing RALLY’s first visual art & design commission of 2026.

The work entitled ‘Secret Liaison’ is a collaboration between MW-A and Unit 38 developed in response to the RALLY x A-COLD-WALL* open call in collaboration with Francesca Gavin, #APlaceToGather.

Secret Liaison is a temporary landmark for Southwark Park, a place to rest in the shade by day and find community by night. Fabric is pulled taut in one plane and allowed to hang loose in the other, creating a shifting surface that billows, shimmers and catches light as people move through it. At night, light transforms the structure into a subtle point of orientation in the park.

The installation is open and adaptable, offering space to pause, meet, converse and gather. Its temporary construction reflects the nature of gathering itself: fluid, collective and shaped by those who occupy it.

The fabric is a custom-made polarising textile, allowing light to pass through in only one direction. By night, lights placed inside will be stretched and filtered by the polarising fabric, each angle of approach creating a different experience.

The lights are bespoke 3 metre long fittings fabricated and programmed by Unit 38 to function off-grid.Timber seating is created with repurposed cross-laminated timber from Tipping Point East. Following #RALLY2026 it will go on to find a new home and purpose.

Materials are held together for the weekend before being returned to the circular economy, leaving behind a temporary intervention rather than a permanent object.

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MW-A is a London-based studio led by Maximillian Worrell, exploring the relationship between architectural form and civic life.

Unit 38 is an architectural cooperative working on community-led projects that foreground collective ownership, autonomy and joy. Together, Secret Liaison brings these approaches into a shared, temporary architecture for gathering.