GHP recognizes the role local government plays within growth and regeneration from the strategic future planning perspective through to delivery. Working with local government partners to understand their complex process, and at times politically sensitive position, GHP helps to develop a collaborative, creative-led, cross-disciplinary team process to achieve sustainable solutions.
GHP facilitates creative collaborations exploring the physical and social aspects of open space in our society – driving forward an innovative approach to arts led regeneration.
As a tool for engagement and consultation, art has often been brought in as a means of fixing society’s problems, a vehicle to address outcomes of public policy that were poorly informed, if informed at all. These outcomes are deep rooted in a complex network of overlapping or inter-connecting social issues and strands. Interestingly, those inter-connecting social strands often lack the connectivity of communication (the initial cause of society’s many ailments) and art is seen as the conduit for addressing this breakdown.
Likewise, the commissioning of public art within the local government context has rarely developed beyond its’ traditional’ role: a ‘piece’ of art placed within a designated space. The reason for commissioning public art may have evolved over the years with the ever changing influence of political and funding trends, but its role has always been subservient to the planning power base of capital development. For this reason local government and developer partners see the artist as the maker of a product which can be realised within a delivery time-frame that always sits outside of, and after, master plan development.
Being developed within, and for, the public sector GHP recognises the role local government plays in the development, delivery and management of those complex social strands that make up our public realm.
GHP facilitates creative collaborations exploring the physical and social aspects of open space in our society - driving forward an innovative approach to arts led regeneration that identifies the artist as a maker of change and the rest of the team as co-makers.
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