Presentation

Ash Road

Reinvented Spaces 

Virgin Boxes 

Designs from students at Leeds Art Uni, the Virgin Boxes project was intended to brighten the street scene in the Ash Road area through regenerating  a dull everyday feature in our streets, Virgin media box blocks. 

Themes 

1. Regenerating forgotten/ordinary spaces in our community (visual Identity) 
2. Using community projects (grassroute) to encourage people to get together to brighten/bring life to their local areas.
3. Transferring this creative outlet to other strands of our everyday life i.e. train tickets, post boxes, public furniture. - having a place where people can express themselves without being scrutinised. 
4. Gentrification and Protest art 

Regenerating Forgotten Spaces

Redesigning the Virgin boxes around the Ash Road area has transformed something which is easily forgotten, into an object that draws people's attention, and brings the whole of Ash road together through one simple aesthetic change. 

Transfer Creative Outlet  

This project however simple gave a whole area (headingley) a new visual identity through creatives means.
This could simply be transferred into many other strands of our communities; whether that’s through small features such as virgin boxes or post boxes, or on a much wider scale like train tickets or bus banners in different communities.

Reimagined Found Objects 

Community

This project shows how simply a community (Art Uni + Council) can completely transform an area and the associated perception of it, through creative methods.

Gentrification  

• Wall built up with art over a long time 
• ‘Tax dodging flamingo nonces’ 
• Corporate company cover up of public area for local graffiti artists.
• Allowing people to express themselves and their community through art/regenerating their surroundings in a legal way. 

 Protest Art