PUBLIC ART & CREATIVE INTERVENTIONS
- Public art and other symbolic interventions in public spaces are important to create a sense of place belonging for all residents.
- Public art can have overt or implicit, subtle messages of inclusion.
- Often the aim is to make people think about their views. However sometimes it can be as simple as simply enchanting and inspiring in a whimsical way.
- It can include such things as murals, poster and signage campaigns, or multimedia or film presentations in public spaces such as parks, town squares or shopping centres.
- It is good to employ professional artists where possible.
- Also included here are community cultural development projects.
| Face Value Community Arts Project | This project aimed to: Combat intolerance, bigotry and racism through large-scale community arts projects; and change attitudes through reaching the mainstream community in innovative ways. | view PDF |
| Difference in a Day | The main aims of ‘Difference in a Day’ are to: work with schools to foster positive relationships between young people from different cultural backgrounds, work in partnership with community arts groups and organisations to promote community cohesion, and facilitate greater understanding of commonality, and encouraging young people to celebrate this. | view PDF |
| Community Plan Rugby | The original aim was to develop new audiences for the Rugby Art Gallery and Museum (RAGM). The Pupil Reintegration Unit (PRU) and Youth Offending Team (YOT) would access a creative resource enabling young people to experience artists and art in its widest sense. | view PDF |
| Living Room Palmerston | The aim of this project was to promote community harmony to people from all cultural backgrounds and ages in the Palmerston community by undertaking a major cultural development project including forums, workshops, events and multimedia products. | view PDF |
| Lifecycle Griffith | The objectives of the Lifecycle project were to bring people together, to establish links within and between the sub-communities that form our shared community. Lifecycle provided a forum for interculture, intergenerational and interfaith sharing and storytelling. | view PDF |
| Plantlines & Sites of Contemplation | The aim of these interrelated projects was to focus on creating intercultural exchange through the use of public space, to engage with the Indigenous population and create sustainable harmonious outcomes through working together. | view PDF |
| Community Comics | The aim of the project is to enable people to make their own comics as a means of expression, to tackle issues and produce information for the creation of communal harmony. | view PDF |
