this place [in colour] is a tool to discover your place through a lens of colour. Connect your place to a colour and share your ideas about your town to see it become part of a living archive’ that grows through people’s individual actions.
Part of this place [of mine] this place [in colour] is a creative a collaborative project to create better public spaces.
The project invites citizens to see their town differently through colours on their phones and share ideas about our their town centre and High Streets – and thereby become part of a generative collective artwork online.
More than ever, town centres have the opportunity for change. For our High Streets to remain well-loved places, we need to create places that invite social interactions, experiences and learning – and give people a voice!
What if we could use art to imagine something different?
Partners
Bringing people together to reimagine our high streets through digital art and creativity, this place [in colour] is part of this place [of mine] is an ambitious new programme of digital art commissions. Tine Bech Studio have collaborated with partners to create a project that invites citizens to see their town differently through a live colour filter on their phone and share ideas about the future of town centres.
this place [of mine] is a young producer programme, online hub, an artwork by Tine Bech Studio commissioned by Greater Manchester Arts with support from Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) as part of the GM Great Place Scheme. Produced by FutureEverything and delivered in partnership with Manchester City Council, One Manchester, Oldham MBC, Link4Life, Tameside MBC, Wigan MBC, and The Turnpike. With extended thanks and gratitude for the support from the Manchester Tech Fund.
this place [of mine]online hub content has been co-created with FutureEverything, young people from Greater Manchester, Citizen Futurists David McFarlane, Jacob Bolton, Joe Whitmore, James Medd and Izzy Bolt, Tine Bech Studio and Studio Treble.
About Tine Bech Studio
Tine Bech Studio merges art and design with the digital language of technology to create positive participation. We create beautiful and meaningful public realm projects, light art, interactive installations, sculptures and games.
We believe that culture creates communities; art is for everyone and belongs everywhere. ‘This place [in colour]’ is as place-focused framework to support change.
Play is part of our social fabric and lies at the core of many social bonds. Play is the call to action in today’s technological automated society – it engages us and provides an entry point into change and deeper thinking. The nature of play is to explore, learn and collaborate. This will be important in our future conversations about public space.
Dr Tine Bech is a multidisciplinary artist with a PhD in Play Theory and Interactive Art. She has extensive practical and theoretical experience in activating public spaces as well as designing for human interaction and understanding why we play. She was born in Aarhus, Denmark, and now lives in London and works internationally.
How to use the app
We have meshed colour into a phone cameras to ‘open our eyes’ and explore familiar places. The playful immersive design invites users to scan their place for colour and share their place ideas.
The project can be experienced at home or outside – in the hyper local and at town centres. It is both universal and locations-specific.
Design Credits
- Design and Artwork Tine Bech
- Technical design Web app Tarim
- Technical design Website Robin Hislop
- Header Graphics Jada
