Place and People work collaboratively, to shape the future and peoples’ understanding of their environment through the diverse creative skills of our core team.

Appropriate: We bring techniques and knowledge to build expertise and meaningful collaboration between communities and designers, professionals, and local authorities. We create conditions where we expect to be taught by the participants about their place and their ambitions for it.

Innovative: Our approach is borne out of mutual respect and openness to new ideas. Place and People is a collaboration between archaeologist, artist and architect and our methodology has developed over time. Our approach is structured and open, using shared conversation as a potent exchange of ideas. Participants are encouraged to express their personal knowledge and experience and also to take on board the context that listening to others provides.

Imaginative: Creative conversation, activities, and discussion strengthen shared understanding. We start by re-examination of the group’s purpose in a refreshing atmosphere of rediscovery. Opportunities and challenges are brought under creative, open scrutiny.  Working together we develop the sense of purpose and engagement with the real issues and the outcomes to be achieved.

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A project run by CapeUK and funded by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA).

Teams of teachers, PhD research students and artists and art practitioners worked together to devise lesson plans for students of a variety of ages based in Leeds. The outcomes were published as case studies in Creative Space (ISBN 0-9549324-4-7), which is downloadable from here.

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