SGSU associate and architect George Lovesmith and SGSU director and artist Ellie Shipman have been collaborating on a project by national play organisation Playing Out around encouraging families to play outside more on housing estates in Redcliffe and Lawrence Hill, Bristol. George has been leading creative play sessions and co-designing interventions […]
Unlocking the Creative Learning City is a project from Brigstow Institute by social scientists Magda Buchczyk and Keri Facer ‘promoting the health and social well-being of local South Asian people (Dhek Bhal) to ask how a range of approaches, including participatory art practice and storytelling, can support the social wellbeing and […]
From January – May 2017 SGSU artist Ellie Shipman lead The Timecapsule Project, creatively exploring the past, present and future with older people at Age UK Stones End Day Centre and Year 7 students from Notre Dame Secondary School. The project was commissioned and supported by Pool Reinsurance. The project […]
SGSU associate Katy Hawkins is leading a project called Bretton Greens, creatively exploring green space with communities in Bretton just outside Peterborough. SGSU director and artist Ellie Shipman joined the project to facilitate a creative workshop and walk with residents of Bretton exploring memories and ideas for the area through walking […]
In May 2017 SGSU Director Ellie Shipman visited Bath Spa University to facilitate a seminar on creative community engagement with BA Fine Art first year students. Presenting a range of inspiring case studies as well as examples from her own creative practice Ellie invited the students to consider the challenges and […]
SGSU director and artist Ellie Shipman was invited to facilitate a series of creative workshops exploring life with older people from Asian backgrounds for Savannah Development Foundation. SDF supports work which benefits Black, Minority and Ethnic communities in Bristol and the charity wanted to find out more about how older people […]
This Spring we were invited to support the Bearpit Improvement Group (BIG) in their consultation around their next steps for the Bearpit. Having seen extensive transformation over recent years, including paving, step access, new cafes, stalls and businesses and stair access, BIG are now asking communities what would make the […]
Since November 2015 SGSU Director Eleanor Shipman has been working with tangentfield, the live field-research strand of Bristol-based architecture firm tangentstudios, to develop a toolkit to help reflect on and share their methodology and best practice when working on live, participatory projects. The toolkit development included a series of illustrations […]
Currently studying an MSc Sustainable Development in Practice, SGSU Director Eleanor Shipman was one of 5 students from the University of the West of England funded to attend the actions happening around the Conference of the Parties – aka COP21 – in Paris in December 2015. ‘Through my Masters I am […]
In summer 2015 SGSU Director Eleanor Shipman was invited to develop a creative workshop for children at David Byrne’s Meltdown Festival. To encourage recycling and free play, Eleanor created an imaginary island floating in the Clore Ballroom with young attendees and their parents. First asking children to go on a […]
