RECYCLE CITY
Creative workshops inviting people to explore their hopes and dreams for a speculative new city
Using hands on craft techniques combined with cutting edge AR filters and AI image generation, workshop participants explore their ideas for what ‘Recycle City’ might look like.
Recycle City was founded by Ruth Harrisson and is about designing and visioning a future – it is a speculative city founded on the values of creativity, community, opportunity, human and animal welfare, healing, connection, conservation, love, joy and celebration. It is a place where all ages / species can be together.
The Recycle City team host creative workshops and use analogue and digital methods to create visions for the speculative city. Within these workshops we explore issues around re-use and recycling and invite people to share their hopes and dreams for the speculative city.
As part of the project we created an instagram account which hosts the AR filters created, as well as images from the workshops.
Recycle City is one of six prototypes produced for Connecting Through Culture As We Age, which is funded by the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge through the University of Bristol. The aim is to improve the quality of life for older populations, particularly those that are disabled, or racially or socio-economically minoritised.
Collaborators
Partners
Zubr (Simone Einfalt and Chris Price)
WECIL (Cora Fern)
Trinity Centre (Stephan Boakye)
Uni of Bristol Micro-Campus (Lizzie Hawthorn)
Team
Ruth Harrison
Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith
Erica Martin-Jones
Helen Manchester
Bogdan Florea
Critical Friends
Jeanne Ellin
Malcolm Hamilton
Karen Harvey
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