[project / 01]
cities / people / participation
nov bureau
urban community research
listening to residents before art appears on their walls
01 / context
nov is a public art and sociocultural design bureau. its approach is therapeutic urbanism: strengthening people's connection to the places where they live. its projects bring together murals, functional art objects and long-term community programmes in russian cities
02 / the brief
conduct participatory research with residents of several neighbourhoods before murals and artistic interventions were created. the bureau needed a sociologist and cultural anthropologist to understand these communities before the artists joined the process
03 / my contribution
i designed and conducted quantitative surveys with residents of buildings chosen for murals, carried out qualitative interviews and developed findings and recommendations for the artistic team
the aim was to ground the artwork in these communities' real stories and lived experience
04 / the outcome
research and residents' participation informed more than ten murals, as well as several parks and skate spaces designed around contemporary art
more than 10
murals created with research as their foundation
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