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The Rope Factory
The Rope Factory
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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The Rope Factory
Glasgow, United Kingdom
YEAR
2013
regeneration + engagement
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art works scotland
architectural circus
made in stirling
Client: Merchant City Festival, Glasgow Life
Photography: Sean Gaule
icecream architecture have recently been commissioned by Glasgow Life Arts and Music to deliver an installation in Glasgow for the Merchant City Festival 'one year to go' celebrations for the Commonwealth Games .
This will be a three day large installation in the heart of the city entitled 'The Rope Factory' and the concept behind our submission was to utilise 71 different colours of rope to represent the 71 different countries of the commonwealth. This will be located on Brunswick Street in Glasgow’s Merchant City.
In 2014 Scotland will see the Commonwealth Games take part in Glasgow. The Glasgow Merchant City Festival is hosting the ‘one year to go’ celebrations.
The 12th Annual Merchant City Festival is being held at the end of July and boasts a visitor attendance of 90,000 last year with an ambition to increase that figure this year with the introduction of the Festival within a Festival, Wayne Hemmingway’s Vintage Festival. The festivities will attract a cross sector and cross generational audience with specific focus this year being placed of free interactive activities for all ages.
This interactive piece will literally map the countries of the commonwealth through the creation of one large map that will be strung throughout the street to create a large climbing net.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
The precursor to the event will be a series of events that will see local communities being pulled together to share stories and weave a net from a rope. Using a common project to connect communities that would often no cross paths.
The piece will promote both education around the scale, stories and position of the Commonwealth countries but also encourage active and playful interaction between the participants.
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