Parks and people: innovative participation in public urban green space
By Sue Palmer, 4 August 2021
Fellow’s Profile
Fellow’s Profile
Parks and people: innovative participation in public urban green space
Increasing participation in urban green spaces by engaging the public in nature
2016
South West
I am an artist and project manager working across media and form, making things with people, places and nature, in the UK and internationally. My recent work includes the collaborative national touring work Common Salt, made with artist Sheila Ghelani (2018-21).
In 2016, I went to Vancouver in Canada, Portland in the USA, and Berlin in Germany to study my Fellowship topic Parks and People: Innovative Participation in Public Urban Green Space. The research focused on parks as social, learning and interactive spaces where people connect with each other across communities, alongside other species and nature. The highlight of my research was the inspirational Vancouver Parks Fieldhouse Programme, where artists and makers are given a park facility to use in exchange for participatory activities with the public.
I currently manage the activity and engagement programme on the park restoration project at Sydney Gardens, Bath (funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund), working within Bath & North East Somerset Council's parks service – I am passionate about parks and public green space as a resource for all.
I am based in Frome, Somerset and I convene Art Club Frome, an experimental making space.
By Sue Palmer, 4 August 2021
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By Sue Palmer, 4 August 2021
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.