Community Actions & Engagement
Elements of Action have worked on nationwide placemaking programmes with the Irish Architectural Foundation Re-imagine programme 2019-2022, working with communities across Ireland to co-create and co-design solutions to problems or opportunities they’ve identified in their locality.
Esther facilities and enables communities to play an active role in the development of their neighborhoods, streetscapes, parks, villages and towns. Projects include creative community consultations to multi-agency collaborations such as the Cork Dockland design team master consultation, Limerick County Council Castletroy Greenway, Brookfield Farm Field Exchange Maker Workshop, Enniscorthy St. John Hospital Activity Garden Plans, Slainte Care Citizen & Staff Engagement plan, South East Greenway Community Art Project, Visions for Orchard Peace Park Activations in Enniscorthy and most recent Cycle to the Sea, Creative Ireland funded Wayfinding sculptures in Cork.
See below a diverse menu of community improvement and engagement projects throughout Ireland.
A unique community engagement project focusing on co-creating a series of sculptural artworks along the cycling route from the village of Cloyne to the sea in East Cork.
A community art project to co-create two sculptures along the Est Coast Greenway in New Ross. We engaged, mapped and ran activity-led workshops with community groups.
Funded by Creative Ireland, this project was both a commission and community project in Collaboration with Brookfield Farm and John Gerrard.
We ran a series of workshops in order to increase biodiversity and identify ways to continue to prioritise nature on the Castletroy Greenway, Co. Limerick. In the end, a co-designed improvement plan was established.
We held entrepreneurship, planting, and greening workshops with the Swan Youth Center as part of A Playful City. In addition, we were commissioned to co-design and build pop-up furniture for future events.
Elements of Action set-up Bloomfringe with Co-Directors Marion Keogh in 2014 and Róisín de Buitléar in 2016. The Bloomfringe festivals were an urban greening festival that ran for 4 years from 2014-2017.