Pictures of the exhibition

Article on the Nottingham Post

Nottingham Post's article, by Jeremy Lewis on the exhibition:
 http://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/nottingham-residents-map-neighbourhood-love-865557

Digital map of Nottingham: our favourite places

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UbGllsjkwuTK2rZ--US5OI-hW8xwhPY7&usp=sharing

Exhibition at Nottingham Central Library: Phase 2, December 2017

Mapping Nottingham’s Identity is an initiative that aims to bring together all those involved with Nottingham and its public spaces. This year we are interested in questioning what heritage is, whether it is tangible, intangible or digital, and how it supports (or not) our sense of belonging.

Participation lies at the heart of this project. Anyone can participate: there is no agenda or predetermined outcome. We offer an inclusive and flexible platform to listen, discuss and share different points of view and engagement with Nottingham, its heritage, and your sense of belonging.

Mapping is an essential tool to discover and to present visually how people understand and feel about Nottingham and beyond. We have used this method in different contexts and with diverse audiences, as you can see in the first part of the exhibition. The second part is devoted to an on-going project with the community of Carrington, where we are co-designing an enhanced Selkirk Way. The third part of the exhibition is about you: please share your thoughts and feelings, and help map Nottingham’s identity!

This exhibition is a construction site: we are building it together in each workshop, sharing our own memories, reflections and experiences.

Many thanks for participating and contributing to the conversation and exhibition!

Ana Souto, curator

December 2017

What is kNott furniture?

kNott furniture (the one that ties Nottingham community into a knot), was created as the outcome of our research in Sneinton. Numerous organisations that work with communities in Sneinton in various ways intensively collaborate, but besides information they do not share any other resources. MapNott saw its contribution to socialisation in Sneinton in designing a modular furniture (a "structure") that would be shared among different community organisers.

Red thread = collaborative links between organisations in Sneinton

After interviews with organisations in Sneinton, MapNott participants created a design brief for "the structure". Five different design ideas were presented to the community on 20th July 2016, and it was decided to proceed with one of the proposed designs. Local supermarket TWO'J donated pallets and MapNott participants continued into the building phase. It was important to recycle donated material in the most efficient way, minimising the waste. MapNott developed a DIY guide for kNott, which is free to download from here. kNott can be made by anyone, using hand tools that most of the households already have. This way, kNott can grow and multiply its effect.

Finally, Sneinton community organisers reached a consensus on who would take care of already made units. There are currently stored and used at Sneinton Market. If you would like to use kNott to organise an event in your community, feel free to contact Sneinton Market, or Sneinton Alchemy and you can borrow them for free. Units are designed to fit into a car, so they can be easily transported without additional costs.

Please send us a picture if you decide to make your kNott piece, or if you organise something by using the ones already made!

kNott furniture from Map Nott on Vimeo.

How to use kNott? from Map Nott on Vimeo.

The quickest tour around MapNott Final Exhibition

Take a 37 seconds long walk around MapNott exhibition at Nottingham Central Library:


Final Exhibition_quick reminder from Map Nott on Vimeo.

How to use kNott community furniture?

How to use kNott? from Map Nott on Vimeo.

EXHIBITION REPORT COMING SOON!

Public engagement events during the exhibition / Nottingham Central Library

Parallel to the exhibition a number of events will be held at the Central Library to keep encouraging further conversations and exchanges between communities and individuals. All events are free and open to the wider public. Please join us to share your comments, pictures, stories, and become part of this collaboration - Mapping Nottingham’s Identity:

03 SEPTEMBER / Saturday / 11am - 1 pm

Exhibition opening and guided tour

Come to meet MapNott participants and discuss various ways of mapping, challenges of community engagement, design methods applied to communication and service design, thinking behind the ways of capturing the identity of communities and places in which they live. 

07 SEPTEMBER / Wednesday / 5 - 7 pm

Discovering Carrington's Identity

In discussion with locals - residents, tenants, organisations and businesses - we will explore MapNott's insights, and work together on  creating the agenda for future period. What is already happening in this small but vibrant area and is there anything we can do to amplify its positive evolution? How do you imagine your neighbourhood in 2021? Come and take a look in extraordinary everyday life in Carrington and share the ideas and challenges of places in which you live.

14 SEPTEMBER / Wednesday / 5 - 7 pm

Discovering Sneinton's Identity

Come along to see how Sneinton based community groups, community organisers and local residents have combined their efforts alongside NTU staff and researchers to create some community furniture – fit for many a purpose! We will be in conversation with representatives from local groups who will be speaking on the evening about their engagement methods and the many challenges they face along the way.

28 SEPTEMBER / Wednesday / 5 - 7 pm

Participation in art, architecture and design

Open discussion and talk among professionals interested in participation, as well as for people willing to contribute to the project in the future. What is co-creation in architecture, art and design? What is the role of an expert in participatory process? Is there a place for community engagement in education? What are the lessons we learned from MapNott? What are our next steps?

01 OCTOBER / Saturday / 11 - 1 pm

Closing event

Detailed schedule will follow.

PUBLIC EXHIBITION

Reading Nottingham's Thoughts - workshop with children living in Nottingham

Come along to Nottingham Central Library on Saturday, 1st October, from 11 am to 1 pm to join the workshop Reading Nottingham's Thoughts. We will be in conversation with the City of Nottingham itself, thinking how it feels like to be in Nottingham’s shoes and then mapping and drawing all those essential places, people we know, and things that we are doing in our city, from our city’s perspective. 

This workshop is part of Mapping Nottingham’s Identity project organised by Nottingham Trent University in collaboration with Sneinton and Carrington communities, West Bridgford Infant School, Carrington Primary and Nursery School and Sneinton C of E Primary and Nursery School.

Bring all your imagination, and any favourite pens that you have at home!

Location:


Date & time:
Saturday, 1st October, 11 am - 1 pm

Workshop: Mapping Carrington's Identity

Yesterday we had a workshop in Nottingham Central Library. We discussed the results of MapNott research in Carrington, as well as current activities of other organisations, businesses and City Council, and came up with a first draft version of "Carrington 2023 Strategy". This conversation certainly gave us some ideas how we might be involved in this area in the future. Please read the document below, and feel free to use and share it!

Final exhibition

Project results will be exhibited in Nottingam Central Library in September.
More information will follow soon.