PUBLIC WORK
The Belonging Project
A participatory public art project exploring isolation, connection and shared experience during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Client: PassionArt
Partners: Lesley Sutton / Gather / Movement Day
Service: Concept Development / Website Design / Visual Identity / Logo Design / Public Art / Installation Design
The Belonging Project was a participatory public art initiative developed during the Covid-19 pandemic, exploring themes of isolation, connection and shared human experience.
Working in collaboration with PassionArt and Lesley Sutton, the project invited anonymous responses from participants reflecting on feelings of belonging, separation and emotional wellbeing during a period of national lockdown.
These responses formed the basis of a digital platform designed to collect, present and validate personal experiences. The website allowed users to contribute anonymously, creating a space where individual voices could be seen and reflected back as part of a wider collective narrative.
Alongside the digital platform, a visual identity and logo system was developed to unify the project across online and physical environments, ensuring consistency across communications, submissions and public installations.
A selection of submitted responses was later translated into a public installation, displayed as flags outside St Anne’s Church in Manchester. This physical extension of the project brought private reflections into public space, transforming personal testimony into shared visual expression.
The project demonstrated how digital systems, identity design and public art can work together to create moments of validation, reflection and collective understanding.
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