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Furtherfield – Gallery and Commons: a creative and social nerve centre where upwards of 26,000 contributors worldwide have built a visionary culture around co-creation – swapping and sharing code, music, images, video and ideas. Furtherfield create online and physical spaces and places for different kinds of people to get involved with contemporary arts and digital technologies.

Recent projects include Hazar Emre Tez’s Sonic Tunnel, a delightful and innovative solution to wayfinding in Finsbury Park. created using strategically placed speakers to broadcast sounds as an alternative to traditional visual signage.

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Left Coast – Pop Up Urban Farm: 2015: Farmers, crafters and food artists explore urban food initiatives with the community with the Pod acting as a food growing station. Left Coast also ran a Pop Up Shop and Canteen in Grange Park – a local shop run by residents.

Hackney Marshes, Hackney, London

Grunts for the Arts – Sports Day: 2007: The collective arose in response to the decision to redirect lottery money from Arts Council England to fund the 2012 Olympics. Their logic was simple: if money was taken away from the arts to fund sport, then artists would have to retrain as sports people. The sports events were also held at Burgess Park, Southwark and Butterfield Green, Stoke Newington.

Myatt’s Fields Park, Camberwell, London

Home Live Art: Harvest It!: 2007: a major participatory event and programme, involving artists working with city farms, allotment organisations, schools, choirs and other local groups, with collective artworks and performances.

Also Light It!: 2006: a festival of light – a spectacular promenade event – using light as a magical, transformative and spiritual force, cross-referencing Diwali, Halloween, Eid Al Fitr, Guy Fawkes, Day of the Dead and Channukah.

Arbonauts – Biped’s Monitor: 2013-14: The performance event was initiated with the support of Friends Of Nunhead Cemetery as part of the cultural portfolio of the cemetery/park and culminated in 2015 with ‘The Desire Machine’.

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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has included artworks as part of its architecture and landscape. Arts and culture projects involving local communities continue as the Park evolves, including poetry performances, a mobile artist studio, free workshops and talks, festivals and further commissions.

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Graeme Miller – Track: 2015: an environmental work and moveable participatory installation that throws landscape through 90 degrees and sets it in motion; a viewer is taken on a slow journey along 100 metres of dolly track and invited to gaze upwards. The work has been shown in urban parks in the UK and abroad.

Burn The Curtain – The Adventures of Don Quixote: 2013: touring outdoor performance work developed and shown in the Riverside Valley Park with the performers and audience travelling together on bicycle.

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Andy Field – Look out: 2015: Andy worked with children from Blackfriars Primary School to think about cities and the future through a one-on-one encounter for one adult audience member and one young performer.  Part of Behaviour 2015, Arches, Glasgow.

Geraldine Pilgrim – Enchanted Parks: 2007: Two site-specific performances commissioned by Newcastle-Gateshead Initiative Culture 10 and produced by Magnetic Events.

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Anne Bean – Reap: 2004/5: 18 artists worked on individual ways of ‘capturing’ the year through ideas of memory, process, metaphor and metamorphosis, manifested in and around Southwark Park.

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CGP London and LUX – LUNG 2016: a new regular space for the presentation and discussion of moving image and performance-based work. Since the 18th Century, the parks and green spaces of London have often been referred to as the ‘Lungs of London’, providing physical and psychological breathing space.

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Williamson Park, Lancaster, Lancashire

Ella Good & Nicki Kent – A Decade with Mars – Williamson Park Launch: 2015: A ten year project about time, sustainability and community from 2014 to 2024. In 2015, Ella and Nicki launched the project with the help of community groups and primary schools around the UK, with a series of weather balloon launches to try and film near space with one of the launches in Williamson Park. A Decade with Mars.

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Woodchester Park, Stroud, Gloucester

InBetween Time – Up To Nature: 2012: 14 artists from the UK and Europe presented bespoke new work to entice audiences to leave the city and enter the world of the forest.

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Yeovil Country Park, Somerset

Somerset Art Works – Water-Meadow-Wood: 2015-18: Three artists will work with participants to co-create artworks linked to the themes, exploring the natural and social history of the place, for seasonal exhibitions to be held in the park / visitor centre.

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Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, Yorkshire

Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an open-air gallery in Yorkshire, England, showing work by British and international artists, including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. It was the UK’s first sculpture park based on the temporary open air exhibitions organised in London parks from 1940s-70s, with a changing exhibition programme.

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And beyond the UK

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Australia

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Surry Hills, Sydney (multiple parks)

PSpace Social: Micro Parks: 2014: Five artists created free, family-friendly contemporary art installations and performances – some interactive, some immersive and others performative – from May 16th – 24th.

Newtown and Erskineville Parks, Sydney (multiple parks)

Performance Space Micro Parks: 2013 took place as part of the Sydney Festival in 2013 with five artists creating suburban dance odysseys, surprising installations and heroic durational performances in petite places.

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Royal Park, Launceston, Tasmania

Malcolm Whittaker – My Best Friend: 2014: Over a period a weeks Malcolm collected stories from befriending dog walkers in the park and created a small performance as a walk around the park sharing some of the stories with dog walkers talking of dogs they had loved and lost. More on the Malcolm’s project, (it has been in other parks) and video of My Best Friend as part of Micro Parks 2014.

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Megan Garrett-Jones – Advice to Park Users: 2011 – 2015. Starting as a private process, Megan made a commitment to walk in a park every day for a year. Megan’s blog explores themes that emerged from her year of park-walking, such as the quest for civic and individual betterment, the performance of publicness, and creative and non-commercial uses of time and space, creating 52 videos in parks between Australia and the UK.

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Canada

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Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver

Jesse Garbe & Geneviève Raiche-Savoie – The Bird Project: 2013 – 2016. Artist/designer collective The Department of Bird Safety make social art that raises awareness about issues concerning endemic and migratory birds, through art-ecology walks and workshops with Vancouver neighbourhoods.

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Trout Lake / John Hendry Park, Vancouver

Anthony Schragg – Circle of Trout: 2012. A 4-month residency programme based around an urban park and lake which brought different communities that used the park/lake together, and their desires for the future of the park.

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Withrow Park, Toronto

Dusk Dances is an outdoor dance festival that brings high quality contemporary and traditional dance to public parks, giving choreographers an opportunity to showcase their work in a non-traditional dance venue, in front of a large, mostly new audience. Dusk Dances has programmes in parks across Canada.

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Germany

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Gezi Park, St Pauli, Hamburg, Germany

Park Fiction: 1995 to 2013. Park Fiction has organised Collective Productions of Desires for a park in Hamburg’s red light district, St.Pauli.

The neighborhood park has been realized, designed by the residents, in a significant and beautiful place that the city’s government wanted to sell to private investors. It was renamed Gezi Park Fiction St Pauli after Gezi Park, Istanbul in 2013.

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Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, Berlin

KUNSTrePUBLIK, ZK/U e.V.: 2006 ongoing: a former ‘no man‘s land’ that was once part of the Berlin Wall is a 5-hectare unbuilt, city-center lot where numerous international artists have carried out projects, focusing on sculpture as a process that can reveal and critique the social, historical and structural contexts.

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Madison Square Park, New York, USA

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse Park: 2008. A matrix of light beams that graze the central oval field of Madison Square. Their intensity is entirely modulated by a sensor that measures the heart rate of evening visitors to the park. Also shown at Jahrhunderthalle Park, Bochum, Germany as part of the Ruhr Triennal in 2012.

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