Engaging and informing the community about sustainable transport issues in Watford
Green Heart Partnershp - Watford Borough Council
Watford Borough Council worked with artists to create a Gateway that communicates with the community about environmental issues at a busy transport interchange.
This project's aims and objectives were to bring together the cross-departmental working group to develop the Bushey Arches site into an interactive learning experience that would positively engage communities with their environment.
Bushey Arches had been designated by Watford Borough Council as an area to be ‘improved with public art’. Watford’s Green Heart Team came together to build upon this, working with artists to turn Bushey Arches into a visually interesting, interactive and informative space that celebrates the heritage of the site as a key transport interchange.
Digital artist, Rayna Nadeem, worked in the area around Bushey Arches throughout May and June 2006 to capture the community’s perceptions of the area and their knowledge of environmental issues on DVD.
Tony Stallard, an experienced artist working in the public realm, was also commissioned to work alongside Rayna to find out from officers what the possibilities are for using technology to communicate the kind of environmental data which the community are interested in on the site.
The results of this consultation will inform the capital regeneration of Bushey Arches, to include interactive educational tools to engage the community in their environment.
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Art forms
- Video
- Environmental art
Themes
- Regeneration
- Quality of built environment
Interventions
- New ways of working with LAs
- Artists' residencies
- Training - non artists
Target groups
- Arts development workers
- Local authority staff
- Local authority members
Venue
- Hertfordshire