UK Street Artists, Trans-Form 2016
SMALLWORLD URBANISM
We are so excited to be joined this year in Ahmedabad by a team of five street artists from the UK collective SmallWorld Urbanism; Simon Burnett, Samantha Loy Fripp, James Pearson, Nikole Domeney and Fernanda Lima.
SmallWorld Urbanism is a social enterprise that carries out projects related to urban food growing, permaculture and maximizing the use of reclaimed materials. Underpinned by a strong ethos of changing the way people understand waste materials, food security and the way we experience, interact and live in cities. By engaging and fostering the creative potential of communities, the purpose is to empower people to make small changes that can amount to a larger impact on their world.
At the core of SmallWorld's work is the belief that the smallest of actions can have enormous effects and that people hold within themselves the key to global and local change. SmallWorld offer workshops, regular workdays and guerrilla gardening & graffiti flash mobs that invite new activities to neighbourhoods, where reclaiming spaces for food, play, colour and nature is offered as an alternative to consumption or car based constraints. Over time this approach results in many incremental projects that give the built environment a new feel, a finer grain, full of interesting, imaginative, vibrant and free spaces, that many people have had a hand in making. Quality of life, social life and knowledge can be improved by recolonising the built realm with our collaborative imagination.
We are so excited to be joined this year in Ahmedabad by a team of five street artists from the UK collective SmallWorld Urbanism; Simon Burnett, Samantha Loy Fripp, James Pearson, Nikole Domeney and Fernanda Lima.
SmallWorld Urbanism is a social enterprise that carries out projects related to urban food growing, permaculture and maximizing the use of reclaimed materials. Underpinned by a strong ethos of changing the way people understand waste materials, food security and the way we experience, interact and live in cities. By engaging and fostering the creative potential of communities, the purpose is to empower people to make small changes that can amount to a larger impact on their world.
At the core of SmallWorld's work is the belief that the smallest of actions can have enormous effects and that people hold within themselves the key to global and local change. SmallWorld offer workshops, regular workdays and guerrilla gardening & graffiti flash mobs that invite new activities to neighbourhoods, where reclaiming spaces for food, play, colour and nature is offered as an alternative to consumption or car based constraints. Over time this approach results in many incremental projects that give the built environment a new feel, a finer grain, full of interesting, imaginative, vibrant and free spaces, that many people have had a hand in making. Quality of life, social life and knowledge can be improved by recolonising the built realm with our collaborative imagination.
For Trans-form 2016, the SmallWorld Urbanism team aim to work with local communities to transform a school or centre, addressing problems specific to the site – This would be achieved through workshops to understand the issues and develop a collaborative plan to address these issues. The focus of the organisation, and the work the collective aim to deliver in India, is principally around permaculture, upcycling, creativity and engagement, and place an emphasis on building the confidence to test new ideas.
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