The Brief 

Co-create, manufacture and install a series of 6 ceramic tiled art benches along the new 5K active travel route connecting the Union and Forth and Clyde Canal, Falkirk. Key to the project was to have community at its heart. 

What we did

In partnership with Scottish Canals we approached diverse organisations connecting us with a broad representative group of local community memebers to make the benches with. We generated ideas by mapping and visualising the canal landscape and how local people experience the environment and its heritage. We translated drawings and ideas onto ceramic decals for use in  

tile making and ceramic decal collage workshops. 

What we made  

• 200 attendances at workshops 

• 20 interactions with public during installation days 

• Over 1000 Handmade and community designed and decaled tiles 

• 6 community ceramic benches 

PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS & COMMUNITY GROUPS 

• Safer Communities Youth Action Project 

• Carmuirs Primary 

• Easter Carmuirs Primary 

• Larbert Village Primary 

• Go Forth and Clyde