WayWORD Festival: School Workshops & Installation
In collaboration with WayWORD Festival, we set out to explore how young people in Aberdeen see and describe their local area, working across primary and secondary schools to generate a creative response to place.
Over the course of four weeks, we delivered a series of workshops with pupils from Riverbank Primary and St Machar Academy. We kept things open and exploratory, moving between:
Words (phrases, thoughts, observations)
Making (drawings, paintings, collages, sculptures)
Some pupils wrote about home, routine and identity. Others built and visualised their surroundings. Together, it formed a layered picture of how place is felt, not just seen. The work culminated in a public exhibition - 'Word on the Street' - at the Sir Duncan Rice Library.
We transformed the pupils’ outputs into a video installation: animating text, layering artwork, and creating an evolving visual narrative of the local area seen through their eyes.
The installation gave equal weight to every contribution, turning individual responses into something shared.
Delivered in close partnership and working alongside Kirsty and Naomi of WayWORD to shape both the workshops and final exhibition.
