QDT Community Engagement

We work closely with artists and communities to nurture creativity and deepen relationships and attachment to place. We are ambitious for the communities that we collaborate with and artistic integrity runs through everything we do. We work in markets, charity shops, laundrettes and other spaces where people already are. We also deliver sessions online.

Artist Collaboration  /   Community Engagement  /   Laundry Projects

Along These Lines – The Heritage of Laundry

A collaboration with sound artist Anna Edmonds to design and present an immersive audio tour exploring Brighton’s laundry heritage. Along These Lines focuses on laundry to explore themes such as the reality of working class lives, women's work and economic independence, as well as the specific significance of laundries in the local area.

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Artist Collaboration  /   Community Engagement

Urban Fabric

Urban Fabric, a collaboration with Sew Fabulous invited people who don’t usually engage with the planning process to create textile artworks that respond to conversations about the changing face of London Rd. These artworks were then digitally curated to create one fabric that visually represents the composite parts of our community and wider city.

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Community Engagement

First we Eat with Milton Keynes

Over 12 months we worked with communities in Fairfields and Whitehouse in Milton Keynes. We invited residents for lunch in exchange for a conversation about family, creativity, well-being and a new public art commission for the area.

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Artist Collaboration  /   Community Engagement

Shopkeepers of the World

Charity shops hold the objects that tell the stories of their community. Shopkeepers of the World is a project uniting and celebrating the culture of shopping in St Leonards on Sea and Bexhill, exploring the charity shop as a vessel for memories of people and place.

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Community Engagement

Market Values, Women’s Voices

From fresh fruit and veg to oat flat whites, Brighton Open Market has served its community for almost 100 years with women at the helm. As the market strives to remain sustainable amidst a cost of living crisis, we follow three women traders as they once again draw on their guts, determinism and resilience for another year of trading.

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Artist Collaboration  /   Community Engagement  /   Laundry Projects

Life Through Laundry – Leicester & South Norwood

As part of a commission by Historic England to explore and celebrate our high streets, Granby Street, Leicester was unofficially twinned with South Norwood’s High Street. Life Through Laundry is a tale of two 'towns' through the lens of the local laundrette celebrating the individuals that frequent the high street, the spaces where worlds collide.

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