FACT Gallery: The Social Playground

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The Social Playground
Fun in the galleries...
An interactive landscape created by local community groups in collaboration with design/artist collective Aberrant Architecture. The Social Playground is a giant game made up of seven ‘obstacles’ that represent various groups FACT work with, including residents from Anfield/Breckfield, Freehand (FACT’s young people’s programme), tenantspin (our long-running community media project), The Academy of St Francis of Assisi’s Network Enterprise Team and Knowsley Community College.

FACT’s Collaboration Programme has been working with communities across Merseyside for over 20 years. The Social Playground is a celebration of this work and provides the chance for visitors to experience the richness of some of FACT’s less visible work.

Each obstacle is a landmark for visitors to explore, and was designed through a series of workshops led by Aberrant Architecture with community groups and partners who regularly collaborate with FACT. Together they form an architectural representation of FACT’s long-term collaborations and their relationship to the city.

The designs for each obstacle reference Liverpool landmarks including Coronation Court tower block, once Liverpool’s oldest tower block and site of tenantspin’s first webcast, the Everyman theatre, St Lukes Church (bombed out church), a coal drop at Garston Docks, the Futurist cinema and a local pub.

Visitors are invited to navigate each obstacle through the traditional game of egg rolling, while exploring sample projects including sound pieces, short films, images and a Tweeting garden.

Featuring work created with artists/filmmakers Aberrant Architecture, Alex Harrison, Alison Kershaw, Carl Davies, Chris Watson, Gina Czarnecki, Jaqueline Passmore, Jess Carver, Ross Daziel & Washington Buckley.