2020 - ongoing
PLoT
PLoT (People’s Land Trust) project reimagines future sustainability of urban land use and custodianship for the next 200 years in Cork City Northside. Using an experimental approach, the project brings together a radical school and the Community Land Trust (CLT) model in a co-creative social art project, with a group of residents living in the northside of the city.
The project was formed in collaboration with artists Marilyn Lennon and Elinor Rivers working through artistic methodologies incorporating, dialogue, critical pedagogy, mapping, performative actions and objects. We are invested in the ideological roots of CLT’s, which enables people to work collaboratively and to participate in democratic processes of planning their futures together.
In thinking about future urban land use in Cork, the project takes into account the wider interconnected and future critical concerns of ecology, population, climate, social relations, public policy, cultural practices, city infrastructure, interspecies habitation, etc.
Future, Land, Commons
Site-specific billboards
(triptych digital prints 40"x30")
Cork City Northside
2020
Seeding a vision for an urban Community Land Trust in Cork, a series of three billboards were on display across various public locations in the city's northside.
These are provocations to spark conversation.
As a community, how do we imagine and think about models for collective ownership, stewardship and future urban land use?
PLoT Radical Summer School
The PLoT Radical Summer School ran a series of workshops and events with a group of residents living in Cork City Northside in July 2021.
Using a DIY ethos, PLoT constructed and built three mobile handcarts as an infrastructure for public engagement. As part of the school the handcarts have been used for civic co-learning and future visioning to think in a community context about future urban land use and related questions of population, climate, social relations, cultural practices, urban infrastructure and interspecies inhabitation.
In 2021 as part of the PLoT Radical School the handcarts were used across various locations for civic colearning and future visioning to think, in a community context, about future urban land use. This summerschool explored questions of community values and ethics, resource mapping, climate change, cultural practices, urban boundaries, and interspecies inhabitation.
PLoT handcarts and summerschool artefacts were on public display in Hollyhill Library July – September 2021.
The project is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and Cork City Council Arts Office. It is a Cork City Partnership and Cork City Libraries supported project with additional production support from Sirius Arts Centre.
