ARC
(Artists Using Resources in the Community)
(Artists Using Resources in the Community)
I was an undergraduate at GSA (Glasgow School of Art), so it was an exciting prospect to return to the art school as a member of staff in 2014, employed as a socially engaged artist to respond to a breif centred around environmental awareness, sustainable practices and a culture of reuse.
The project was instigated by Siag (sustainabilty in action group) and fully funded by the Climate Challenge Fund and explored themes surrounding creative sustainability and resource efficiency. It was a large scale public engagement project and my role was to creatively design interventions and facilitate spaces for conversations.
The project was split into 9 areas and I was directly responsible for 5 of these including community engagement; developing talks, workshops and a festival, Save Food; designing, developing and implementing a successful a food waste monitoring and collection service, Reuse; instilling a culture of reuse. Throughout the project I was also responsible for developing our visual identity designing graphic material to communicate our values as well as mapping exercises. Moreover I developed quantitive skills in project budget management and data recording for our funders.
I co-ordinated the project with Eilidh Sinclair and Kathy Beckett and this book documents our process, outcomes and collective learning.
We communicated this through an exhibition ‘Counting Consciousness’ and commissioned the below film to show at a public feast at The Project Cafe, Glasgow.
