Futurecity set up a residents’ Arts Committee to encourage ownership and involvement in the public art projects. The strategy evolved from a substantial four-week consultation process with local people, which identified deliverable ideas for integrated arts projects in seven key public spaces. Illustrator Thomas Dowse drew manga cartoons of local residents, titled ‘Village People’, and recorded podcasts of interviews, to be installed into the final hoarding installation. Residents’ personal home furniture was exhibited and used as the basis for a seating project in the pond area of the estate. Residents voted for a furniture piece to be fabricated as a permanent piece of street furniture. The estate’s routeways, entrances, shortcuts and places to avoid were identified in a community mapping exercise used for a new wayfinding and signage system for the estate. Residents’ textiles, ceramics and other visual material contributed to the designs. Award winning design agency HatTrick were appointed by Futurecity to develop a comprehensive signage and wayfinding design palette.
Find out more about Stockwell Park and Robsart Village here, and read the Stockwell Story brochure here.
