In this article I will explore the relationship between space, language andobjects and interrogate the role of language as a signifier for thetransformation of space through cultural difference. My work is informed by thecontext and the methods of postcolonialism and specifically the notion ofhybridity. If the hybridity of a postcolonial identity is acknowledged, then thespace where these identities are negotiated could also be seen as sharingqualities of overlap and mixing. Influenced by psychoanalytic theories of theself and its relation to others, postcolonial theory has used strategies of‘mimicry’ and ‘hybridity’ as motifsto provide a vocabulary that shifts colonial relations out of the dialectic ofoppressor and oppressed. But following Lefebvre's idea that all spaceis social space, and Foucault's spatialisation of power, the movefrom the historic preoccupation with time to a spatialisation of the processesof knowledge production, allows postcolonial thinking to go beyond thecomplicities of identity politics, which has been one of the major criticisms ofthis mode of thought. As an architect, this opens up certain possibilities ofinterrogating postcolonial subjectivity through the spaces that are occupied andused by those who are implicated within it. This paper will focus on one suchspace: a park in East London.