Pig Walk Parade is Urban Wilderness CIC’s flagship annual community event in Stoke-on-Trent — a playful, participatory procession celebrating place, creativity and collective imagination.
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Winter Gathering is Urban Wilderness CIC’s annual seasonal celebration — bringing communities together through light, creativity and shared ritual during the winter months.
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A Cultural Leaders programme delivered by Urban Wilderness CIC at Sutherland Primary School, supporting children in care to lead a whole-school creative project and transform their shared environment through colour, pattern and collaboration.
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Urban Wilderness CIC delivered a Creative Careers consultation with Year 9 students in Tunstall, using youth-led surveys to bring young people’s voices into local community planning.
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A community-led making project inviting volunteers to create handmade gifts for café owners in Longton, building welcome, connection and belonging through shared creativity.
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Year 10 GCSE Art students from Co-op Academy Stoke-on-Trent took part in a work experience programme with Urban Wilderness CIC, designing family-friendly carnival masks for the Pig Walk Parade.
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Urban Wilderness CIC commissioned sculptor Raphael Daden to create a Sky Works canopy installation in Longton, combining light and birdsong to explore the absence of nature in the town centre and reimagine the public realm after dark.
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A creative consultation in Longton that grew into public interventions, heritage-led activities and cultural programming — now continuing as a community-led CIC.
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Urban Wilderness CIC co-created the Garden of Possibilities with young people from 42nd Street for the National Trust’s Castlefield Viaduct — a quiet, restorative space shaped by youth voice and urban nature.
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Urban Wilderness CIC provides participatory research methods training for researchers and practitioners, exploring creative, inclusive and ethical ways to work with communities.
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Urban Wilderness CIC collaborated with Keele University and Natural England to explore how participatory storytelling can deepen community connection to sensitive natural landscapes. A fieldwork encounter at Wybunbury Moss revealed how creativity helps young people build meaningful relationships with place.
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Delivered in partnership with PiCL, this Urban Wilderness CIC project supported Reception pupils at Sutherland Primary School to reconnect with outdoor play after lockdown through weekly exploration, storytelling and creative making.
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A socially engaged art project by Dana Olărescu responding to the decommissioning of 20th-century power infrastructure — part of Decommissioning the Twentieth Century. Using posters and community engagement, it gives voice to workers, residents and future imaginaries around West Burton Power Station.
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A documentary film produced under Decommissioning the Twentieth Century, reflecting on the closure of Fawley Power Station and its impact on landscape, community and memory.
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A co-creative public art commission by Urban Wilderness CIC inviting communities to imagine what should be preserved, shared or re-imagined at the former Chatterley Whitfield Colliery — not just historic artefacts, but everyday stories, hope, and future possibilities.
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A major AHRC-funded research project led by Keele University in partnership with Urban Wilderness CIC, exploring how 20th-century industrial and energy infrastructure becomes heritage — and how communities can shape that process.
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Seeds of Hope was a community-growing initiative by Urban Wilderness CIC, working with young people and local residents across Knutton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, and Abbey Hulton. Through gardening, craft, sustainability workshops and outdoor activities, the project promoted wellbeing, food growing, community connection and environmental awareness.
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A solo performance devised by Sophia Hatfield in collaboration with women’s running groups and the Canal & River Trust, staged along the Etruria Canal on 26 September 2021 as part of The Happenings Festival of Public Art in Stoke-on-Trent.
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The Happenings festival in Stoke-on-Trent explored small-scale, site-specific public art, activating overlooked urban spaces through creativity, care, and connection.
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Urban Wilderness reflects on Public Art Now, an online symposium convened in April 2021 exploring public art as a relational, participatory and accountable practice.
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