Final Publication

We have just received the first bound copy of our publication for With Our Ears to the Ground; a project by Proboscis commissioned by Green Heart Partnership with Hertfordshire County Council to explore peoples ideas about community. The project focused on four very different types of community in order to get a broad range of [...]

Commuting

We spent this evening at Broxbourne Station stopping commuters to ask them about communities and commuting. Its an odd thing to stand outside the station for 2 hours during the evening rush; there are long periods of almost complete stillness intterupted by very sudden gushes of people pouring out of the station so fast that [...]

Ears to the Ground

So far we have held a number of meetings with local residents  to discuss what the word ‘community’ means to them, discuss personal experiences and perceptions and discover how best to overcome problems within the community. We’ve conducted interviews in a wide range of settings with people between the ages of 20 and 90, including [...]

Markets, private and public spaces

After the morning at the Douglas Drive Day Care Centre headed off to Watford to visit the Indoor Market where we hope to have an event sometime in October. It was refreshing seeing the variety of stalls and stallholders – seeing the kinds of things that are hard to find in the centre of town [...]