In the summer of 2024, Three Rivers invited Maia to do a month-long residency at Tump 39, a long-term project working with communities in North Thamesmead to re-imagine a disused and re-wilded Victorian munitions arsenal.

After 20 years of being closed and subsequently abandoned, Tump 39 was re-opened by Three Rivers who invited artists, storytellers, activists and ecologists onto their cultural programme as a means of activating the space alongside local residents.

In August 2024, Maia ran a series of workshops that offered up ways of cooking with the land. Although the soil itself was toxic due to the history of munitions, ‘Site Specific Cooking’ explored ways that residents could develop a sense of familiarity with the space through different cooking and food practices. These included fire-pit building, fermenting, burying collective dreams and a community fire meal. During this time, Tump39 became a site of co-creation with local residents and all the other wild, non-human forces, as documented through a short film.