︎ PAST
MUSICAL PLAYSPACE FOR CHILDREN’S CHARITY
Timeline: 2011
Made possible by: The Design CIC, Kids Company
Location: Hampton Court, London UK
In collaboration with: the kids of Kids Company
Acclaim: Silver Gilt Medal at Hampton Court
This musical play space was designed in collaboration with the kids from a disadvantaged children’s charity.
A future option, in keeping with the design intentions of the 'kids', might be to rebuild this garden with its all singing, all dancing array of hi-tech wizardry and it's digitalised musical pathway and a variety of augmented ‘instruments’. The proposal is to convert the theme of the poem, ‘the hero’s quest,’ into a virtual game which can be personalised for each participant as they 'pit their wits' against internal monsters.
A GARDEN FOR SURVIVORS OF THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE
Timeline: 2011
Made possible by: The Design CIC
Location: RHS Flower Show, London UK
In collaboration with: survivors of the Rwandan genocide
Acclaim: Best in Show
Made possible by: The Design CIC
Location: RHS Flower Show, London UK
In collaboration with: survivors of the Rwandan genocide
Acclaim: Best in Show
This garden raised awareness in a most poignant manner. Places do indeed speak to us, they speak to us of what is important. Given the right treatment, they can influence, control and manipulate human emotion - and just as they can engender 'the architecture of happiness', they have also been seen to deliver a treatise on sadness and compassion.
MILDMAY MISSION HEALING HOSPITAL
Timeline: 2017
Made possible by: The Design CIC, Mildmay Hospital Mission
Location: Mildmay Mission Hospital, London UK
In collaboration with: staff and patients of Mildmay Hospital
Made possible by: The Design CIC, Mildmay Hospital Mission
Location: Mildmay Mission Hospital, London UK
In collaboration with: staff and patients of Mildmay Hospital
Responding to the call from Mildmay’s Director Dr Ross White for a sanctuary garden which offered: ‘safety’, ‘security’ and much needed ‘support’’, The Design Charity sought to create an immersive environment characterised by the 'aids ribbon pathway' which leads the visitor to an inclusive semi circular raised seating area set in luxurious planting.
AN UPRISING OF KINDNESS
Timeline: 2010
Made possible by: The Design CIC, Emmaus Cambridge
Location: Emmaus Hampton Court Flower Show, London UK
Made possible by: The Design CIC, Emmaus Cambridge
Location: Emmaus Hampton Court Flower Show, London UK
In collaboration with: Emmaus Cambridge, Cambridge College
Emmaus Charity garden, 'An Uprising of kindness', celebrated the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Charity and Abbe Pierre's call to the french people on Radio Luxembourg:“My friends, come and help… A woman has just frozen to death at 3am on the pavement of Boulevard Sebastopol in Paris, clutching in her hand the eviction notice used to throw her out of her home the day before yesterday…"