HARBOUR
PLACE SHAPING
Young Creatives
Olamiposi Ayorinde
Kiara Corales
Sid Boyer
Commissioned by
Ellayah Woodward-Lindsey
Dolores McGurran
Lindsey Allen
YEAR
2023-2024
TAGS
Consultancy: Research, Storytelling
We believe that public spaces are for everyone, but often not everyone’s voices are heard or listened to when it comes to making plans and decisions about our public spaces.
So when we were approached by architecture and planning practice DK-CM to imagine a new future for Bristol Harbour that works more for everyone we were excited to see where this could go and showcase the breadth of talent in our community to the commissioner Bristol City Council.
To do this we hosted a lab with our community to get a wider idea of their relationship to the Harbour, whether they’re Bristol natives or have moved here more recently, or have no relationship to it at all.
We then recruited six Storytellers from Rising’s community to extend the engagement DK-CM were already doing into communities that they were less able to reach. With the aim of generating ‘short, sharp’ creative commissions that explore the harbour from a range of perspectives and using multiple forms of media. This included nighttime workers, trans and non-binary folk and communities at the edges of the Harbour area.
Photos of the creative outcomes by the Storytellers, clockwise from top left: Dolores’ illustration of what nighttime workers around the Harbour like about it, a page of the zine created by Kiara exploring textures that caught the attention of the East and South East Asian people she went on Harbour walks with, a collage from a workshop Lindsey ran with disabled young people, one of the flags designed by Sid to signify a space of safety for trans and non-binary people
impact
PARTNERSHIP
This partnership has brought Rising’s ways of working to wider attention across Bristol City Council with potential for more radical projects in the future
Voice
Not only did this give the Storyteller’s a voice but also the communities they come from and chose to engage with who are usually underrepresented in Place Shaping Strategies
Action
The Storyteller’s findings and creative responses are feeding into the reporting and direction of the Place Shaping Strategy