We are excited to be collaborating with artist Paul Granjon and disabled interdisciplinary designer and accessibility advocate Ruth Hennell as part of our new project, ‘Garden Lab Whispers Grow’.
Ruth Hennell will bring her embodied experiences, activism and interdisciplinary design approaches, alongside connections with activists with disabilities in Bristol. Ruth is inspired by nature, folk and disability wisdom and has a passion for Knowle West’s natural spaces which have supported and restored her, as she experiences from different perspectives (led down) due to pain and mobility barriers.
Paul Granjon is bringing his unique approach to DIY tech, where people can join in making, thinking, and playing with sensor technology and much more. Paul will share DIY tech possibilities to inspire the co-creation of an inclusive garden lab. Participants in the Garden Lab will invent experiments and tools for exploring our connection to non human living beings.
Through recent KWMC facilitated projects around Springfield Community Allotments there is already an active and engaged group, including disabled creatives, who are keen to extend conversations and ideas around how to make green spaces and nature related work more accessible. The active allotment steering group, led by the local community, will also be involved from the outset ensuring relevance and grounding in the place.
We are so excited to begin this work, exploring how co-designing through a variety of perspectives can enhance the ecology and accessibility of a green space and create models of inclusive collaborative knowledge sharing, learning and making that could be adapted to any community green space with a climate action agenda.
Garden Lab Whispers Grow is funded by Bristol + Bath Creative R+D Grounding Technologies and supported by Impetus.
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