Creative Communities Award
Artists working with communities in regeneration, planning or urban design projects.
PROJECT has made the following Creative Community Awards:
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire
£12,300 (Round One, November 2004)
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IT Design Game,
Raploch, Stirling
£10,000 (Round Two, March 2005)
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South Acton
Residents Action Group
£11,000 (Round Four, November 2005)
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Exemplars of similar projects
Northmoor Home Zone, Manchester
Artist's impression of Green Street, Northmoor Home Zone, Manchester.
Photo: Tanja Jäger © 2002 Northmoor Urban Art Project
Home Zones were pioneered in the Netherlands. They provide safer, more pleasant environments within urban residential areas and utilise a unique approach to traffic-calming. In 2001, the Northmoor Home Zone won the titles of Best Regeneration Scheme and Best Overall Scheme from the Institute of Housing. The Northmoor Urban Art Project, of which the Home Zone is a part, won a BURA award for Best Practice in Regeneration (2001). The Home Zone project has also been named runner-up for the British Urban Regeneration Award (BURA) in 2003.
Residents of Northmoor worked alongside artists, architects, engineers and contractors to create a Home Zone regarded as an outstanding example of best practice in urban regeneration. The Northmoor Urban Art Project is leading a range of creative initiatives that are set to redefine what it means to be creative in the context of inner-city regeneration.
Further information:
www.nuap.info/hzvideo.html
www.bura.org.uk/awards/award2001/
What Would it Take?
Law, Learning and Leisure, muf, 1998, Birmingham for Scarman Trust ©
muf
As part of the Scarman Trust’s ‘Can Do’ initiative, collaborative art and architecture practice muf worked with three residents in suburban Birmingham, to explore how artists and architects can give voice and expression to grass roots social entrepreneurs. ‘How to’ templates in the form of graphic visualisations were made to show how the projects could be achieved and offer alternative approaches to local authority provision.
muf worked with a young man in Shard End to identify the Restless Youth Club, a network of shifting activities and spaces where young people can gather; the Law, Learning and Leisure organisation in Handsworth to help it express its objectives and ways of working in order to establish its public credibility; and with a local mother in Bromwich to develop a modular playstrip to be built as funding allowed.
Further information:
www.publicartonline.org.uk/casestudies/regeneration/whatwould/
Royston Road Parks Project, Glasgow.
Watercolour image by artist Tony Paterson for Royston Road Parks, Glasgow.
Completed in 2001 Spire Park, Roystonhill and Molendinar Park in Blackhill
was a collaboration between local people of the area of Royston Road
in Glasgow, landscape architects Loci Design and artists Graham Fagen
and Toby Paterson. The project was commissioned by Fablevision and The
Centre, delivered by the Wisegroup, with funding from The Scottish Arts
Council National Lottery Fund, Strathclyde European Partnership, National
Lottery Charities Board, Glasgow City Council, European Social Fund
and the Esmée
Fairburn Charitable Trust. During his residency in Royston, Graham Fagen
developed Tree Planting (17) Royston and Molendinar Trees and Where
the Heart Is, a rose for the north east of Glasgow.
For further information:
www.roystonroadproject.org