Urban Forest Stories: Farrell Exhibition

Written By Lotte Dijkstra

Audiotour

View from Farrell Centre from 2nd floor window, with neon lights reading 'Urban Rooms' reflecting in window
Photo panel with view of Gateshead Riverside Park, on landing of Urban Rooms in Farrell Centre
Posters with 3D maps of the green infrastructure projects in the North East: Tyne Derwent Way top left, Durham City Green Corridor top right, and Tees to Topping at the bottom. A tree and bus just visible from the window.
Immersive installation with photo panels, recorded stories, branches and logs, all foraged from Gateshead Riverside Park
A visitor standing in front of the story panels, reading the Urban Forest Stories from Gateshead Riverside Park
Storytelling prompt and photo panels next to a bay window
Urban Forest Storytelling: Prompts & Practices

Make your own Urban Forest Stories with these prompts and practices. Download the file and read from your screen, or print on A3 or A4 paper (double sided) to fold a booklet you can take with you on your next walk!

Download the Prompts & Practices
Poster with Urban Forest Alphabet in Farrell Centre

Curation & installation

Curation: Lotte Dijkstra (Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape & Studio PLACES)

Production: Owen Hopkins, Lorna Burn, Hannah Christy (Farrell Centre)

Installation: Caitlin Carter (Farrell Centre), Stef Leach (Newcastle UniversitySchool of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape), Nathan Hudson, Sean Mallen, and Oliver Perry (Newcastle University APL Workshop)

Sound installation: Karl Birrane (Newcastle University School of Arts and Cultures)

Printing: Wayne Richardson (Newcastle University Print Services)

Communication: Georgia Fitzpatrick (Farrell Centre)

Contributions

Urban Forest Stories: Lotte Dijkstra in collaboration with Gateshead Riverside Park and the more-than-human Urban Forest Stories workshop participants

Urban Forest ABC: inspired by Katie Holten’s Trees alphabet (2015). Letters and symbols foraged from Gateshead Riverside Park by year 4, students and staff from Eslington Primary School, Stef Leach, and Lotte Dijkstra. Illustrations by Lotte Dijkstra and Mangal Preetham

Tyne Derwent Way: Bev Robinson (Tyne & Wear Building Preservation Trust), Lucy Zwolinska (National Trust), Imogen Cloet (English Heritage), and Telling Tales illustrations by Laura Crow

Green Corridors North East: Richard Clay, Alexander Wilson (Newcastle University)

Staiths Stories: Annie Rigby, Victoria Sanderson (Unfolding Theatre)

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