Participants’ work and data extracted from research project, including: ceramic bowls expressing young children’s visions of Broadmead and maps made during a collage-based research workshop exploring the lost Jewish quarter of Bristol, destroyed in the 1960s © The Artists and Jess Baum, 2026
I was invited by Local Learning to be lead artist on a four-part community arts research project funded by Historic England, looking at the ways in which minority groups experience urban spaces and how they can be empowered to influence better city planning for the future.
Working with a team of practitioners, we introduced several art forms including multimedia map-making, collage, zines, and ceramics to different groups of people who have historically been excluded from co-creating city spaces; this included: young children, people with disabilities, refugees and asylum seekers, and people from ethnic minority groups. People were invited to creatively share their experiences, express their hopes and dreams, and imagine a city that they could inhabit safely and with joy in the future.
This project was funded by Historic England and supported by Flying Saucers
