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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A temporary public sculpture by artist David Bethell, commissioned by Urban Wilderness CIC, exploring heritage, fragility and hope through precariously balanced architectural forms.
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A temporary public artwork by Anna Berry, commissioned by Urban Wilderness CIC, exploring resilience, heritage and renewal through a sculptural response to Longton’s urban buddleia.
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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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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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