{"id":676,"date":"2014-05-12T12:22:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T12:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=676"},"modified":"2014-05-12T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T12:23:21","slug":"imagine-sheppey-art-project-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2014\/05\/12\/imagine-sheppey-art-project-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Imagine Sheppey’ art project in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"

A series of art workshops on the Isle of Sheppey is providing an opportunity for young people to present their own vision of their lives – past, present and future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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University sociologists team up with art group to provide art workshops for young people on Sheppey. The workshops, at various locations on Sheppey, will enable the young people to imagine their futures by making use of a variety of simple art techniques. The workshops are part of an ongoing research project, titled Imagine Sheppey\u00a0 <\/sup><\/a>that has already seen many of the Isle\u2019s young people describe their hopes and ambitions for the future in a collection of essays.<\/p>\n

A team from Kent\u2019s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research is working with art collective \u2018Tea\u2019\u00a0<\/sup> and Sheppey\u2019s Blue Town Heritage Centre\u00a0<\/sup> during May to stage the workshops, which are taking place in locations representing residential, leisure, work and public space. The young people taking part are working with the artists to imagine their futures and use the art techniques to transform the well-known places into something new. The results will be photographed and videoed to form a new vision of Sheppey and its future.<\/p>\n

Head of the Creative Events programme at the School of Music and Fine Art, Peter Hatton<\/a>, also a member of \u2018Tea\u2019, said:
\n\u2018This project will provide an opportunity for the young people of Sheppey to use multimedia methodologies to present a new vision of their community and future lives. <\/em><\/p>\n

The identity of any place is very much the result of the interweaving of people\u2019s lives with their physical environment, and Imagine Sheppey will provide a fascinating documentary insight into the way young people think about their lives.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

The Imagine Sheppey project is part of a five-year research programme titled Connected Communities, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This national project, running from 2013 to 2017, brings together a range of different research projects involving universities and their communities.<\/p>\n

Dr Dawn Lyon, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University, said: \u2018Imagine Sheppey is a research project about how young people \u2013 16 and 17 years old and on the brink of their adult lives \u2013 imagine their futures.\u2018We want to explore young people\u2019s ideas about the future, working with them in selected places, and also perhaps provide them with the opportunity and scope to think differently about things they may have taken for granted.\u2019<\/p>\n

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