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Growing Riversiders at Barking Riverside
July 2021
Growing Riversiders is a part-digital part-physical participatory project involving 100 families from a new urban development in Barking Riverside, London, collaboratively growing a large-scale plant-based installation that represents their collective identity for the new neighbourhood.
These families, also known as Plant Parents, coordinated online using the Growing Riversiders platform and then spent 6 weeks growing and nurturing 400 plants in their homes and together. Once ready, they assembled a spectacular community-created image artwork at Barking Riverside that ‘grows’ and ‘thrives’ for months to come.
The Acre team invested many hours of their own personal time into this project. It was one of our most successful charitable initiatives and we have since remained deeply involved with our clients and residents at Barking Riverside to encourage community involvement, working directly with schools and charitable organisations in the area, providing labour, skill, and materials to help build localised projects that promote health and wellbeing.
More about our involvement in the Growing Riversiders project can be found at https://lingql.com/growing-riversiders/
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