WECA Mobility hub: ridingleaze #2024
Kerry from Studio Meraki collaborated with Luke and Sonja of Blue Roll Press to deliver a series of playful, process‑led workshops with local groups. These sessions invited participants to create original imagery that will directly inform new public artworks for Ridingleaze’s transport links. It’s an exciting opportunity to translate community‑made motifs into designed interventions across the public realm—painted pathways, bike‑rack surrounds, and planter surfaces—embedding local creativity into daily movement routes.
Drawing inspiration from patterns found around Ridingleaze, local games, and elements of area history, participants worked with pre‑dyed paper, cutting shapes that were then heat‑transferred onto fabric. This fast, vivid, and tactile process encouraged experimentation. The original paper shapes were carefully kept and will now become a key source material for the final artworks, ensuring participants will be able to recognise their contribution in the completed designs.
Art + Craft, The Rock
At The Rock, we asked participants to reflect on what brings them joy in Lawrence Weston, what landmarks feel important, and what those places might look like as shapes or symbols. Local woods and parks were frequently mentioned, alongside a love of bluebells and primroses. Participants also drew inspiration from the Roman mosaics at Kings Weston and the distinctive old church—famously “shaped like a jelly mould.” Each participant produced their own print and took a copy home, connecting personal creativity with local heritage.
Oasis Long Cross Primary School
At Oasis Long Cross Primary, we invited students to invent new games using simple icon‑based instructions. We tested the games outside, working together to interpret each other's symbols before returning to the classroom to re‑imagine those icons as printable shapes. Students created their own artworks using our printmaking process and kept their finished pieces—turning playful experimentation into visual communication.
Avon Youth Club
At Avon Youth Club’s half‑term session, we introduced young people to our sublimation printing process and supported them to design and print their own T‑shirts. This hands‑on making session encouraged bold creative choices and gave participants an immediate, wearable outcome grounded in their own ideas.
