The Enigma Lunch series was carried out in partnership with five different local community groups throughout Hammersmith United Charities' 400th year of celebration. Co-curated with Melanie Nock and each community organisation, the lunches coincided with the republication of the Ethnic Minorities Oral Histories. 

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'From the performative dialogues in the early research period, to Remembering the Future and the Moving series, artistic activity and its analysis in this thesis, demonstrate how co-presence illuminates new understandings of beneficiary socio-cultural and aesthetic needs and the ways in which the charity, artists and other partnering stakeholders (like the architects) can support them in response...

With the least amount of pre-defining and the most amount of agency between the charity and its beneficiary communities, the Enigma Lunch series demonstrates a capacity for the charity to unmould its previous ways of policy making for the beneficiaries, by relating to them here as partners through the co-hosting of events. This level of agency is a critical value ...and offers a final development in the thesis’ concept of intra-vulnerabilities' (Chapter 6, p. 142).

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