PLUS ONE: RESOLVE Collective
July 4 - Aug 16
Free & open to all
PLUS ONE is a multi-strand artist development and community resourcing programme brought together by RESOLVE Collective and Bloc Projects.
Centring the gallery as an artistic incubator and sharing space, PLUS ONE deepens the Nurturing Ecologies network that came into being in 2023. Initiated by RESOLVE, it brought together Black, POC and marginalised group-led practices from across the UK that are working towards radical futures. The purpose was to initiate and build support structures for their communities through creative practices, which at the time took the form of a week-long programme of workshops, events and activities in Sheffield.
Two years later, Bloc Projects is excited to offer a place for the regional ecology to meet again, showcasing a selection of their recent creative practices and inviting three practitioners from the North of England to use the gallery as an open studio and sharing space. Encouraging lab style workshop testing, translocal knowledge exchange and ‘bringing your people with you’, PLUS ONE has two key aims: to build lasting intercity connections by activating and nurturing communities-as-resource; and to present a series of special events led by Nurturing Ecologies practitioners. With facilitation provided by RESOLVE and Bloc Projects, the six-week programme connects practitioners and their creative ecologies in a translocal collaboration across Sheffield Manchester and Leeds.
Documentation image: courtesy of Resolve Collective
RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. They have delivered numerous projects, workshops, publications, and talks in the UK and across the world, all of which look toward realising just and equitable visions of change in our built environment. RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. They have delivered numerous projects, workshops, publications, and talks in the UK and across the world, all of which look toward realising just and equitable visions of change in our built environment.
Directors: Akil Scafe-Smith, Seth Scafe-Smith, Melissa Haniff
Members: Jana Dardouk, Nina Jang, Lauren-Loïs Duah, Ella Barrett, Katie Matthews
