PROCESS: PARTICIPATIVE DESIGN
But a central objective of community-based site specificity is the creation of a work in which members of a community – as simultaneously viewer/spectator, audience, public, and referential subject – will see and recognized themselves in the work, not so much in the sense of being critically implicated but of being affirmatively pictured or validated.
Miwon Kwon, ‘One Place After Another’. Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity . London and Cambridge: MIT, 2002
The engagement strategy created a dialogue around the project, establishing a link between the people of Wolseley and the artists. If there is something in common with all Wolseley neighbours it is language. Through language we establish relationships and build community. Words become the link between people, private and public, past and future. We invited the people of Wolseley to contribute WORDS to the project. Each household were asked to donate 5-word phrases that represented a sentiment about the place; a desire or a dream; or the memory of an event that took place in the neighbourhood. With all the collected phrases we composed a narrative, a story, a history of Wolseley – a landscape of language.
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