Making Place

Making Place (2017-present) is a long-term programme focusing on learning from the city and use of public space.

The project aims to explore the issues that shape the neighbourhood, working with artists, designers and local communities to map, re-imagine, and influence the places where we live and work. The process is fluid and responsive, and the direction of the project is led by collaborating partners and participants.

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The programme critically plays with ideas and practices of city planning, regeneration, gentrification, and ‘place-making’, and investigates three central themes, based on our work within the local area to date:

Inheritance – what do places inherit, and which histories are preserved?
Imagination – who imagines the city?
Intervention – generating projects that interrupt, activate and re-imagine the neighbourhood, using play, art and design processes in public space

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Projects

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Build Create Play

Build Create Play is a project working with local families and young people around Ronald Street Playground in Radford. The playground is currently a neglected space with old play equipment and this project aims to bring local people’s voices and ideas in to shape how this space is developed.

Making Place Film

This short film offers a tour of the Making Place Exhibition that took place at Primary in 2021 and an overview of collaborative community projects from the previous three years.

When We Worked At Raleigh: Contemporary Art Commission

Building on When We Worked At Raleigh, we are pleased to announce that artist Maybelle Peters has been commissioned for a period of research and development, working towards the creation of a new moving image artwork in response to the archive.

February - May 2021

When This Tree Blossoms...

When This Tree Blossoms… began in 2018 as part of a national project exploring how we can envision positive futures in response to climate and environmental change. The first event took place when artists Frank Abbott and Rachel Jacobs followed the blossoming of the cherry trees in Christ Church Gardens across the road from their studios at Primary.

Making From Home

A series of inspiring activities, created by artists, for you to try at home. Suitable for kids and adults of all ages to experiment and enjoy!

Making Place Exhibition

An expansive and celebratory exhibition marking three years of Making Place, our long-term community programme looking at how we learn from the city and how we use public space. Join us as we reflect on past projects and generate ideas for the future.

May - July 2021

Sounds of Lockdown

If lockdown was a rhythm, what would it be? A group of local young people aged 16-25 will produce a podcast or radio show focused on stories, thoughts, and reflections about the lockdown, led by digital storyteller Jaya Gordon-Moore and creative practitioner Parmjit Sagoo.

September - October 2020

Tell Me Something I Don't Know Podcasts

Primary have been archiving and releasing Tell Me Something I Don't Know recordings as a podcast.

May 2020 - present

Lentonness

A public artwork, created by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad in collaboration with local residents, responding to the question 'What is Lentonness?' at a time when the neighbourhood has undergone significant changes.

April - September 2019

Grow Me A Colour

Our long-term programme to develop a dye and pigment garden, working with Primary resident artists and local communities to design, build, grow, and process plants, and to learn new skills together.

Summer 2018 - present

Reading Room Furniture

A project led by maker duo Effy Harle and Finbar Prior to design and build bespoke furniture for the Reading Room at Primary.

August 2019

The Chimera Plantarium Project

A collaborative project between artist Chiara Dellerba and children at Edna G Olds Academy to design a public mural in a newly developed area of Lenton.

July 2019 - present

When We Worked at Raleigh

A project led by Nottingham Black Archive and Primary to document the experiences of members of the Windrush generation, and their descendants, who worked for Raleigh Industries.

May 2019 - present

Ben Harriott | Mill Allotments

Photographer Ben Harriott presents an exhibition of photographs and audio recordings from Radford’s Mill Allotments, capturing gardeners’ memories and experiences, some of whom have been working this patch of land for over 50 years.

November 2018

Jagdish Patel | Asian Activism in Nottingham

An exhibition, meal, and walk led by artist Jagdish Patel, bringing together stories of people from the South Asian disapora who settled in Nottingham and challenged everyday racism through activism.

September 2017 - June 2018

Art and Public Space

A collaboration between Primary and Maraa exploring artistic practice in public space, taking place across two intensive labs and follow-up public events, in both Nottingham and Bangalore.

June - September 2017

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