Artists group HWY (Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji) are collaborating with 6th form students at John Roan School in a project for exhibition in the Science Museum as part of Stream's youth programme.

Phone Wars is a development of HWY's ‘Telephone Trottoire’ project. This was aimed at the Congolese community in London, approximately 90% of whom are refugees or asylum seekers. In the Congo, where free speech has been censored for over forty years, people spread information while standing on street corners – by 'radio trottoire' or 'pavement radio'. Produced by the artists in collaboration with the Congolese radio programme ‘Nostalgie Ya Mboka’, ‘Telephone Trottoire’ calls people up and invites them to pass around stories or topical news items over their phones.

Phone Wars is creating new networks and stories to engage wider communities in communicating the issues around the situation in the congo and its relationship to all of us.

Phone Wars will be installed in the Science Museum from 8-21st December 2008

www.phonewars.org.uk