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Urban Scale Interventions

Bright Ideas

Project/initiative | Ireland
In conjunction with the Public Health Agency Northern Ireland, Healthy Places seeks to collect and share “Bright Ideas” for North Belfast through creative conversations and community engagement. Focused in the neighbourhoods of Ardoyne and Ballysillan, ‘Healthy Places’ seeks to bring the community to the core of development and regeneration. Together, the dual projects of ‘Street…

In conjunction with the Public Health Agency Northern Ireland, Healthy Places seeks to collect and share “Bright Ideas” for North Belfast through creative conversations and community engagement. Focused in the neighbourhoods of Ardoyne and Ballysillan, ‘Healthy Places’ seeks to bring the community to the core of development and regeneration. Together, the dual projects of ‘Street Activation’ and ‘Participatory Communities’ have come under the umbrella of “Bright Ideas Belfast”, with Urban Scale Interventions currently carrying out the initial public consultation, asking communities and individuals for their Bright Ideas for North Belfast through workshops and engaging street activities.

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Relink

Project/initiative | Ireland
Relink is a climate friendly vision for transforming the Westlink and M2 bridges to help relink Belfast. The project has been developed since 2019 through an extensive community and statutory stakeholder engagement process in association with the Public Health Agency. The aim of Relink is to improve the health and social well-being of everyone using…

Relink is a climate friendly vision for transforming the Westlink and M2 bridges to help relink Belfast. The project has been developed since 2019 through an extensive community and statutory stakeholder engagement process in association with the Public Health Agency. The aim of Relink is to improve the health and social well-being of everyone using the Westlink and M2 bridges, through rejuvenation and animation of its footbridges. The bridges are being reconceived as shared positive spaces that focus on connectivity and climate resilience with the primary focus of improving wellbeing in the area.

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Our Future Foyle

Project/initiative | Ireland
The Foyle Reeds seek to be a cultural installation with the dual purpose of a suicide prevention mechanism on the Foyle Bridge. This installation would be the largest public sculpture in Northern Ireland and aims to develop and inform suicide prevention measures for cities worldwide. Linking the Atlantic Way and Causeway Coastal routes this bridge…

The Foyle Reeds seek to be a cultural installation with the dual purpose of a suicide prevention mechanism on the Foyle Bridge. This installation would be the largest public sculpture in Northern Ireland and aims to develop and inform suicide prevention measures for cities worldwide. Linking the Atlantic Way and Causeway Coastal routes this bridge also links Ireland and Northern Ireland. Utilised and developed to its full potential, the Foyle Bridge has the ability to enhance tourism of the wider area, following the success of the Peace Bridge and the landmark that it has become in the city of Derry.

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