We are hosting artist Emily Speed as part of In Certain Places’ The Expanded City Project. She is inviting the local community to come and help construct a temporary model village at our Waterside development in Cottam, Preston.
Emily is exploring what would people’s dream place to live or play in look like? School children, young people and members of the public are being invited to sculpt with coloured clay to build their ideal home, and make their mark on the village by creating, extending, squashing or customising its buildings, trees, parks and streets.
Emily has researched informal leisure spaces in Preston and, through conversations with city planners and on-the-ground research with communities, she has explored approaches to leisure provision. She is interested in the relationship between formal and informal spaces and the interface between public and private space within new housing developments. Emily will be working with members of the public, including local residents and school pupils of all ages to construct this collaborative vision in clay bricks on a currently vacant plot at our Waterside development, Cottam.
Model Village? is supported by Story Homes and is part of The Expanded City, a three-year programme of artistic research, interventions and events, designed to inform a series of planned infrastructure projects on the outskirts of Preston. Part of Preston’s ‘City Deal’ – a central government initiative which aims to encourage economic growth by addressing strategic infrastructure challenges – the scheme includes the creation of over 17,000 houses as well as new roads and amenities.
The Expanded City is a three-year programme of artistic research, interventions and events, designed to inform a series of planned infrastructure projects on the outskirts of Preston. Part of Preston’s ‘City Deal’ – a central government initiative which aims to encourage economic growth by addressing strategic infrastructure challenges – the scheme includes the creation of over 17,000 houses as well as new roads and amenities.