Saturday Sun

The Endcliffe Park Consultation Event began on Saturday morning at 9am.

We spent the day using a number of methods to engage with Endcliffe Park users. 

Firstly we set up a “Pit Stop” by the entrance at Hunters Bar Roundabout. The “Pit-Stop” comprised of an informal re-freshments stall (using a combination of cups of mineral water and orange segments and covered in the brightest yellow fabric ever seen in Endcliffe)

To evoke thoughts on the state of the park “Statement/Question” Posters were placed up in eye catching locations around the Hunters Bar entrance.  The posters give park users a chance to reflect on the statements made, before hopefully, they came and chatted with us at the “Pit Stop”.

Wrapping the pergola at the Hunters Bar entrance.

After alot of planning the decision was made late on Friday to acquire enough “incandecent” yellow material for one of our “Intervention/Feature” of the consultation day. The aim of wrapping the existing pergola structure was to spark debate and demonstrate that an object that until now has been overlooked by all but the local ’wineos’ could be seen in a new way and perhaps even question its existence and the existence of other overlooked objects.

Once on site we became entangled in the process of finding the best way to “wrap”  the pergola. after much deliberation we agreed to drap the material over the top and down the front tyo create an enclosed ‘room’ which would have a significantly different atmosphere than the structure presently conveys one of openess lacking meaning and enclosure.

another intervention to gauge peoples thoughts on the park was to hand out a double postcard. Called a Double Postcsrd as it came in two parts. One with a past image of endcliffe park as a gift to take home and keep after having completed the second part to by filling with their thoughts on the current park along with suggestions and general observations.

pretty patterns in the woods

Steel found in the woods – do we need to incorporate more steel in the park to highlight Sheffield’s industrial past?

??….QUESTION….??

Yellow Shadows

This Saturday we are commencing a number of YELLOW INTERVENTIONS in Endcliffe park and the Porter Valley involving the wrapping/covering/hanging of Park objects as well as designating new features in Endcliffe Park….

Our intention is to highlight ‘literally’ in a fun and playful way certain areas or features of the park and generate debate and interest through activity. By working with structure and place that park users will reflect on their purpose/position/place within the park.

football unites…

Meeting with Simon at Football Unites, Racism Divides to begin the organisation of “midnight football in the park” to engage young people.

an alternative timetable for Endcliffe Park

Proposing An Alternative Events Schedule:
Many park users have explained that they are happy with the park as it is, and that improvements to the existing condition would be welcomed. With this in mind, one of our first strategies before any sort of intervention at all is to propose an events list on a monthly basis. Currently there seems to be little or no information on a coordinated notice board where all the park users can see them. We have put in existing events that already occur as well as some new ones which would extend the parks opening hours after it gets dark. Below is one of our proposed events.

White Elephant Jumble Sale
A well established idea in European countries such as Switzerland, the basic premise is that areas of park space is given over to a ‘White Elephant Jumble Sale’ once a month. Members of the public are invited to bring a small table or even a blanket with second hand items they wish to sell. Call it a car boot sale without the car boot, or a garage sale without the garage. Or E-Bay without a computer.

park entrances…

We have been looking at the entrances to the park, through sketches we have been trying to analyze them, to see what works and what doesn’t. The entrances are key to the park, acting as the main public focus, working as advertisements to what lays ahead.

It would be good to see your views on the entrances, the arrows mark places of interest to us. What are your views around these points..?what do you like and dislike? what is it about the entrances and routes through that make it unique to you and the park?

Yellow Spade…

slip….slide….hop…..skip…..wobble…..jump….thud!….climb…..

When speaking to a number of people around Endcliffe, local business and neighbouring streets, about the park they often mentioned or referred in part to other local park’ facilities, one such example was the pathway activities at Millhouse Park which we felt needed to be explore….and to be tested out in fine detail of course!!

Another striking and yet seemingly obvious addition to the pathways at Millhouse Park where that they dealt with a number of conditions and user overlaps such as the ability to congregate and to make allowances for uninterrupted walks, through not so subtle changes in path width!![as in photo below]
one of these over laps happens not far from the designated skate park things can become a bit crowded.

Millhouse

The skate park at Millhouse, was the first very populated area of the park on arrival, the images below where taken by ourselves, but could have been easily been from the many digital cameras and equipment that the skate boarders and their friends had.