IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: JOHN HANSARD GALLERY
John Hansard Gallery, in partnership with Skate Southampton, presents Safe Spaces Soton. This new initiative seeks to encourage the reactivation of seemingly forgotten ‘in-between’ areas of the city, aiming to stir community imagination towards the reclamation of dormant civic spaces. We invited Southampton photographer Luke Shears to take photographs of the local area and have placed these images inside and outside of community spaces in Northam, St. Mary’s and Guildhall Square.
We would like you to feel inspired and imagine how you can change these “in between” spaces into social and safe places for all to enjoy. It is about having open conversations around community empowerment and how people can feel ownership of their local environments and create dynamic, inclusive, safe civic spaces for all to celebrate and enjoy. Take part. Share your vision with us. Follow SafeSpaceSoton on Instagram and tag your posts #SafeSpacesSoton or #JHGCommunity to have your ideas featured and get your voice heard! Safe Spaces Soton is part of John Hansard Gallery’s Community Takeover programme for 2020. Find out more at www.jhg.art.
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TAKE PART:
We are inspired by the local skateboarding community, which is well known for finding new ways to change spaces. Their “do it yourself” attitude has led to new social and positive spaces.
Share your vision
Can you think of ways to bring new life to Southampton’s “in between” or forgotten spaces? •
How would you change places to make them welcoming to all?
What would you improve to make you feel safer?
What kind of outdoor event or activity can you imagine happening in your neighbourhood that could bring people of different ages and backgrounds together?
Join in. Share your own photographs of an unused space near you. Describe how you would change this space. Draw, paint or collage or find images that reflect your ideas.
ABOUT THE ACTIVITY
These photographs have been taken by Luke Shears and you can see more on our website. These capture a glimpse of different spaces within a short walk along Southampton’s Northam Road.
You can use these to start a conversation locally.
THE ACTIVITY PACK CONTAINS
Examples of how local communities have humanised their unused public spaces.
A description of some forgotten space locations along the Northam Road.
Images which explain the complicated and changing history of the Northam Road area.
An example of how you can visually create and share your space changing ideas.
Some lightly illustrated drawings of the Northam Road spaces onto which you can collage, write or draw your space changing ideas.
