Collaboration

Colouring in Kingston /  by Glen Walton

I came across this project today called Colouring in Kingston. It has been created by Kingston School of Arts students Izzi Toovey and Josephine Miller. They are digitally recolouring childrens’ drawings and presenting them on Instagram.

It is especially interesting as I am seeking ways of collaborating with participants in this post COVID world. Playable Streets has created Playable Web as a platform for somewhat similar collaborations. Kidstruments and Exquisite Stories are two works that we are currently presenting based on works that had been developed pre-COVID.

One thing that we have found has been the most tricky part of these collaborations are the instructions! Here are the instructions for Colouring in Kingston. They are clear but quite a large document.

It will be interesting to see how this sort of collaboration evolves and develops in the future.

A picture by 10 year old Josh (right), and the digitally coloured version created as part of Colouring in Kingston.

A picture by 10 year old Josh (right), and the digitally coloured version created as part of Colouring in Kingston.

The images are being used to create posters for Kingston Council to ‘spread messages of health, wellbeing and our environment’

The images are being used to create posters for Kingston Council to ‘spread messages of health, wellbeing and our environment’

Melton Growth Project Creative Development /  by Glen Walton

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Emily Tomlins and I started our creative journey on the ‘Growth Project’ for Melton Council. This is a very large community collaboration project that will culminate in an interactive installation in October 2021.

It was great to start throwing ideas around and talking about the big themes of the project including urban sprawl, community connection and agency.

After a morning of throwing any and every Idea out into the zoom-room, we settled on some questions that we can pose to the participants that will begin the conversation for the project: What do you like about your area now, and what do you imagine it will look like in the future.

We want to keep it as open as possible to allow for the most unprescribed answers and therefore creating the most unexpected results.

We discussed the installation taking on many different forms but ultimately we want the participants to have a say in how it develops.