Repository of the Undercommons (RotU) is a curator/artist residency borne out of Enough! as a way to (re)imagine alternatives + (re)create cultural codes, messages + values for our future(s).
Shared Assets
We are collating videos from practitioners and have been speaking to infrastructure organisations within the land sector to seek opportunities for collaboration in response to the crisis. We want to focus our attention on the social and economic justice impacts and what COVID has revealed there.
The Mobile Apothecary
A collaboration between Phytology, Rasheeqa Ahmad of Hedge Herbs, and a growing network of talented volunteers, Mobile Apothecary supports underserved communities in the locality with good quality, homegrown and communally-made herbal remedies.
Shieldfield Art Works
Shieldfield Art Works (or ‘SAW’) is an arts organisation based in Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne. SAW is an artist-led organisation committed to creativity, theological critique and community engagement. Through making art, growing, cooking, discussion and learning, we seek positive change for the welfare of the city, in order to seek out ways of supporting and enabling social transformation.
Leeds Patchwork farm
Leeds Patchwork farm is a network of food growers and producers that supports and enables more local and ecologically grown food, with the aim of creating a more secure and resilient food supply for Leeds.
Awareness with Horses
Our mission is to help create, and help others create a more peaceful, sustainable world through equine assisted experiential learning and therapeutic interventions that support learning and growth, self-awareness, mental health well-being, resilience, co-creative leadership skills and nature connection, for both adults and young people, we work one to one and in small groups.
Sew and Sow
The Sew and Sow Free libraries project was created to address the urgent need for more sociable and solidarity economies, with the desire to strengthen care-based communities and highlight the feasibility of growing and mending in the domestic scene.
FoodFutures
FoodFutures is North Lancashire’s award-winning Sustainable Food Partnership and Network. Its working to build a collaborative community of practitioners, food citizens, policy makers and researchers that work on sustainable food matters in the local area.
Jo Chalkblack
As a social-practice artist, Jo Chalkblack initiates processes of authentic connection in every day places (schools, urban green spaces, graveyards, city through-routes). Whilst also using site specific, temporary processes to connect with hinterland spaces (woodland, wild spaces, vacant buildings) to enable individuals and communities to navigate through ‘crossroads of change’ and to mark that transition together. She approaches her work collaboratively; moving away from human-centric ideas of what this means and understanding how dynamics of power, language and history affect people’s choices and ability to engage together in moments change.
Lockdown Gardening
During the recent Covid 19 crisis, small community growing groups in Northern Ireland diversified their activities, providing food delivery to the vulnerable and isolated, checking in on neighbours through phone-round schemes, and later on in lockdown encouraging their neighbours to grow at home, so that fresh food is still being provided locally.
May Project Gardens
May Project Gardens is an award-winning CIC, working across South London to address poverty, disempowerment, access to resources and influence. We work with marginalised groups, mostly young people, people of colour and refugees, using what we consider universally connecting tools – nature, food and creative arts – for social change.
Jonnet Middleton
Jonnet Middleton (PhD) is a feminist artist-researcher and degrower who lives in/as performative experiment, a job she calls ontowork. She makes everyday rearrangements to self and lifeworld – unlocking, undoing, resisting, rewiring, shedding, holding on. She also works on infrastructuring in marginal communities in Havana, Cuba, where she previously lived.
Impact Hub Bradford
At the heart of Impact Hub Bradford is a platform for social experimentation, our “Civic Collaboratory”; an organisational form that encompasses social processes, collaboration, co-design, formal and informal communication and consensus on principles and values. As both learners and facilitators at the intersection of various key sectors – public, private, voluntary, academic, entrepreneurial, NGOs and academia – the collaboratory is a hub that convenes and creates dialogue across unconnected disciplines.
Bella Caledonia
Bella Caledonia is Scotland’s Fifth Estate. Our aim is to transform our media into a vibrant, critical mass of dissident voices; to create a space for writers and artists to collaborate and cross-fertilise their resistance. We aim to give voices to the unheard, to amplify the excluded and the marginalised, and to continue to create a space for self-determination, autonomy and independence.
The Tees Online
We aim to connect the diverse communities of the Tees to forge a united area that is free of inequality and division. We are intensely proud of our area’s assets and achievements, and seek to celebrate and champion these qualities. We recognise though that not everyone can share this pride whilst there are immediate issues affecting them. We aim to address this, through addressing issues of power, voice and participation.
OLDER and BETTER
A deep on-going concern about ageism in our society. Independent artist Janice Parker,
questions what we have come to accept as normal and asks us to do the same.
Herbalism Without Borders
Individual UK herbalists have been supporting refugees in the camps of Calais and Dunkirk since 2015, slotting into different threads within of the eco-system of humanitarian response. From September 2019 we have consistently showed up in Northern France as an agency in our own right, Herbalists Without Borders UK.
Greater Manchester Transformation Lab
Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network: Creating opportunity for collective sense making and group decisions. We are seeking funding to run a ULab process to support GMHAN to reflect collectively, from different perspectives, on the changing situation around homelessness, and co-design what happens next.
Project Ride Cumbria
Project Ride Cumbria exists to explore and support the emergence of equestrian resources, to facilitate learning, wholeness, equipping and resilience. The vision is to work with a skill mix team to create a process whereby people can discover their gifts, strengths and weaknesses.
Morecambe Bay Love and Kindness Action Support Group
Morecambe Bay Love and Kindness Action Support Group works among individuals, teams and agencies collaborating for a co-produced culture of love and kindness throughout Morecambe Bay. The aim is to provide the kind of encouragement, inspiration and relational connectivity that links actors with specific complementary expertise and skills.