Eventus

One of the successes of Creative Places has been that developers have taken responsibility for creating their own projects within the Creative Places programme.

Roads and Flowers

Creativity

Roads and Flowers was a public art project on the Flower Estate in Firth Park and Upper Wincobank. Led by artist David Gunn of ‘Incidental’, the project worked with community members of all ages to explore real and imaginary pasts and futures to create a series of ‘chapters’.

The chapters intentionally blurred historical facts relating to the area with fictional and imaginary scenes and fragments to create a complex, poetic representation of Firth Park and Wincobank. These chapters were arranged, created, ‘published’ and then photographed in public spaces at participatory community events.

Impact

Some text has been created as text panels affixed to the new houses, creating a link between old and new communities.

Results

Material from all events was used to create a graphic novel.
The book is available in selected venues in Sheffield & London and from the Incidental website

Steeling Skies

Steeling Skies was an art and community engagement project commissioned by Sanctuary Housing and delivered by arts collective rednile.

Creativity

Rednile took a local contentious issue of mature trees on roads  as an opportunity to encourage people to look upwards. Activities included  reviving a local scout  tradition of building towers, then used as viewing points, decorated lampposts  and  temporary sculptures to arouse peoples curiosity.

Impact

There was a selective, rather than wholesale removal of trees. The old lamposts were refurbished  and some have been decorated to local people’s designs.

Results

Sanctuary have re engaged rednile to create a further programme of activities during 2011.