Free Street Theatre

1984

The Ferrier Estate

Greenwich Community College
Residents of the Ferrier

Performance

Broken Trust

2005

The Ferrier Estate

Global Fusion Music and Arts
Young Residents of the Ferrier

Short film

Excuseme

2002

The Ferrier Estate

Independent Photography
Magnum Photos
Donovan Wylie
Residents of the Ferrier

ComeUnity

2000

The Ferrier Estate

Somali Women's Training and Development Organisation
Documentary and Information pack

Writing on the Horizon

1992

The Ferrier Estate

New Horizons Centre
The Ferrier Estate

Book of poems

Voices of the Ferrier

1995

The Ferrier Estate

Greeniwich Community College

The Ferrier International Feast Day

On going

The Ferrier Estate

FRAG

2004

The Ferrier Estate

Ferrier Resident Action Group celebrating The Ferrier Feast Day

MBOLAW

Banner making for the Ferrier Feast Day

MBOLAW


The Ferrier Estate


African straw weaving workshop

MBOLAW

2007

The Ferrier Estate
Ghana Golden Jubilee

MBOLAW

2004

The Ferrier Estate

African Village Playshceme

MBOLAW

2003

The Ferrier Estate

Black History Month

MBOLAW

2004

The Ferrier Estate

African Crafts

MBOLAW

On going

Ferrier Estate

Stands for Togetherness in Gambian-Wolof language. The project was set up in 1993 after the murder of young Stephen Lawrence in 1993 on Well Road, a mile and a half away from the Ferrier Estate. The aim of the project was to provide counseling support or referrals to victims of racial harassment with bias to families of African and African Caribbean's in the Ferrier Estate. Nowdays, runs various courses including a Facilitation Skills Professionals and Parents enabling participants to become qualified parenting courses facilitators, Food Hygiene courses and Parenting Programme. From one year and a half ago they are organising the Parent Support Forum.

100 Verses for 3 Estates

2006

People/groups
Alec Finlay
Gavin Wade
Residents
http://ngarts.3forming.com/animation_and_film/events/?id=106

Location
Kings Norton Estates, Birmingham


100 Verses for 3 Estates is a new artwork for Kings Norton 3 Estates using the form of a shared writing schema called a hyakuin (100 verse Japanese renga). Over a period of 4 seasons artists Alec Finlay and Gavin Wade along with residents of the 3 Estates will produce 100 verses in 6 different places, providing a new tool for considering the future of the estates, its inhabitants, its identity, its visions. The work will produce a book of the hundred verses with a dictionary of the 3 Estates and this will be supported by a series of poster-works emerging from each stage of the artwork and a film of 100 residents of the Kings Norton Estates reading the 100 verses in 100 different locations.

Broxtowe


2006


People/group
Simon Puolter
http://www.viral.info


Location
Broxtowe, Nottingham


Is a documentary shoot in the Broxtowe Estate. The film futeres a Subaru Impreza WRX STi used as a means of interviewing a series of guests and residents of the Broxtowe estate. The premiere screening of this work was held on 8 December, 2006 at the University of Nottingham.

HET RESERVAAT: BACK TO THE PRESENT
Join a voyage from the future at this one-day museum experience!


July, 3007


People/groups
Sophie Hope
Daphne de Bruin
Joost de Groot
Residents of 2007 Leidsche Rijn.
http://www.beyondutrecht.nl
http://www.welcomebb.org.uk/blog/archives/000018.html


Location
Castellum Hoge Woerd, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht


The masterplan for Leidsche Rijn Utrecht was completed in 1997. By 2007, the town, still only half-complete had accumulated over 15,000 residents, make-shift supermarkets, plenty of primary schools and a Leidsche Rijn anthem. Built on agricultural land, numerous archeological sites and incorporating two existing villages (Vleuten and De Meern), Leidsche Rijn Utrecht was not merely a suburb but the largest ‘new’ town ever to be built in the Netherlands


Het Reservaat was an open air one-day museum of life in 2007. The artists worked to creat a snapshot of 2007 and convince the residents of Leidsche Rijn they were travelling back in time from 3007 to 2007. The idea was to look again at today with fresh eyes, like travelling in a time machine from the future back to the present. Visitors could experience strange spectacles such as local politicians discussing the meaning of democracy in 2007, rare sightings of elderly people playing board games and Dutch residents practicing an ancient art called Tai Chi in amongst the trees while the infamous (local teenage) rock band EitherWay screeched up to a stage in a bright orange jeep and performed their four song repertoire every hour, among lots of other strange goings on...

Docklands Community Poster Project

1980-1990

People/groups

Cspace http://www.cspace.org.uk/cspace/archive/docklands/dock_arch.htm

Loraine Leeson and Peter Dunn

Tenants from the Docklands

Local Trade Unions

Location

Docklands, London

In the Docklands during the 80’s started a process of re-developing the area, that were not only docks and warehouses, was also home and workplace to 56,000 people. It was a classic top-down regeneration project in deprived areas that did not take into account people’s life and desires.
The artists were already working closely with local trades unions and were approached to produce a poster to inform local people about the regeneration process. What started as a process of consultation and information ended up in a bigger poster were the community could display their proposals, document the process, promote their campaigns and look at key issues such as housing. From this point community started to organize themselves to face this process and be able to participate form it and made their voices heard. The artists helped them to organize creating a steering committee that met regularly to report on local developments and agreed issues.

Tenantspin

On-going

People/groups

FACT

City-wide tenants

Arena Housing

http://www.tenantspin.org/

Location

Liverpool

Tenantspin is based Community TV Channel. This unique collaboration enables all parties to explore issues around contemporary ways of living and ways of seeing. It is a project where the ‘tenants’ are seeing as collaborators and has a diversity of artists and other organisations working with them. They commission leading artists, writers and thinkers to develop webcast content collaboratively with the tenants. And the projects explore social and social housing issues such as anti-social behaviour, care, money, smart homes, the paranormal, ethical banking, regeneration, the Welsh Streets, high-rise nightmares, CCTV and healthy eating. During its life tenantspin has created over 600 hours of Community TV programming which has been seen across the world as well as by the local community in Liverpool.

The Regeneration function

2005

People/groups

Andy Hewitt and Mel Jordan http://www.hewittandjordan.com

Dave Beech

Location

East London

A text work sited on a billboard in East London during Real Estate ‘Art in a Changing City” B+B, ICA. It is a work concerned with the way in which culture-led urban regeneration is advocated within regeneration strategies. Regeneration aims to change the 'mindset' and 'behaviour' (Landry, C., ‘The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators’, London: Earthscan, 2000) of residents, to improve their effectiveness in creating capital and growth in order to reduce what is seen as a dependency on state provision.

Bata Ville

2004

People/Groups

http://www.bata-ville.com/

Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie

Location

Travelled from East Tilbury and Maryport in the UK to Zlín in the Czech republic, via Bata Industrials at Best in the Netherlands.

Bata-ville is a record of an English coach trip to the origins of the Bata shoe empire – the Moravian town of Zlin. The project involved the communities and employees that were involve in the backdrop of economic regeneration in the areas where two UK Bata factories were closed and was led by artist / directors Pope & Guthrie on a unique journey through Bata’s legacy and across a changing Europe. The project began as a free holiday and ended up as an opportunity for a collective to imagined what Tomas Bata’s inspiration idea of “We are not afraid of the future” can mean in 21^st century Britain.