Something Good, Something Useful

14/09/2016

Really enjoyed meeting the men's group at Dhek Bal today as part of a wider consultation led by Savannah Development Trust to find out more about what it's like to be an older person from the BME community in Bristol. Our workshop Happy Brains went down very well!

06/06/2016

Calling Bristol residents!

Do you use local maps? How do you find out what's on locally? How do you connect with your friends and neighbours? How do you get from A - B in the city?

I'm doing some research into community-led mapping in Bristol to inform a city-wide pilot project for Bristol Legible City and would be very grateful if you could complete and share a two minute survey -

http://bit.ly/mapbristol

If you are interested and would like to take part in a focus group get in touch at [email protected]

19/04/2016

So fantastic to read some lovely feedback from Bath Spa students after the seminar today! Thanks for having me! 😊

19/04/2016

So great to be back at Bath Spa University running another half day seminar on socially-engaged art!

The BA Fine Art first years were amazing and had some really inventive ideas for projects which are ready to pitch!

Missing art school though... 👓🎨✏️

13/04/2016

We're running a creative consultation for Bearpit Improvement Group today til 4pm! Come down for food, music, giant chess and of course to share your ideas for the Bearpit!

Here Saturday too 😊🎨😎

25/01/2016

SGSU site updated with some recent projects - development of a live field-research toolkit and sustainability analysis for tangentstudios architecture, update from the Paris action around COP21 which will be exhibited at UWE in Feb, and our recycled island at Southbank Centre's 2015 Meltdown Festival!

Ready to head back to Southbank to build suspension bridges across the Clore Ballroom with children in Feb and run more creative consultation workshops with Bath Spa Fine Art students soon, and starting my main research project on the role of participatory art in inspiring action around climate change. Any recommendations of potential interviewees please get in touch!

http://somethinggoodsomethinguseful.com/

05/11/2015

UWE Architecture workshop now up on our site! http://somethinggoodsomethinguseful.com/our-toolkit/featured-projects/

19/10/2015

Final photos from the day's workshop on creative community engagement for UWE's Architecture students.

Couldn't resist sharing some lovely learning and feedback -

What did you learn?

"Sky is the limit"
"Engaging with people is key to make a project successful"
"Participation and consultation are essential in contributing to communities in a meaningful way"

General feedback:

"You were really engaging! Kept us interested and thinking through the whole day, good pace of presentation. Thank you!"
"Great session and great effort in interacting with the class"
"Good ways to create interaction session with peers and I found the whole workshop very informative"
"Very informative slides to guide us in collecting information from the community"

19/10/2015

Really enjoying running a creative community engagement workshop with UWE Architecture 4th year students today!

Sharing case studies, making connections between their live projects and discussing communication methods with different demographics so far!

Cake to come...

29/09/2015

Chuffed to hear our award-winning public art project A-B, creating posters for Watford Junction Station with men from the YMCA, has been featured on the new Citizens Rail site as inspiration for their Toolkit on creating citizen-led railway stations.

(http://www.citizensrail.org/toolkit/better-stations/improve-existing-stations/art-and-gardening-projects/)

See our updated post on the project here: http://somethinggoodsomethinguseful.com/project-a-b-with-abbey-line-community-rail-partnership-and-watford-ymca/

Citizens' Rail is an EU project to develop local and regional rail by involving the community. It is part of the Interreg IVB programme and brings together partners in in the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

08/07/2015

PLAYSWAP is now up on our new Youtube channel too! Exploring urban play and sharing games across cultures - what street games do you remember from your childhood? http://ow.ly/PeByM

PLAY SWAP began as part of SGSU Director and artist Eleanor Shipman’s six month residency funded by Near Neighbours at Pembroke House, a community...

06/07/2015

We now have our own SGSU Youtube channel! Check out our creative consultation for St Luke's Community Centre here: http://ow.ly/Pete5

We were invited by St. Luke’s Community Centre to run two days of community consultation stalls at the Whitecross Street Party in July 2014. The...