Grow Your Own Creativity
Grow Your Own Creativity was a participatory arts project that explored creative responses to sustainability and the environment whilst also celebrating Darlington’s green spaces. Alongside workshops that engaged participants in origami and other paper craft techniques, a miniature pop-up exhibition celebrated the ingenuity of Darlington engineers and cultural connections with green spaces and horticulture. The exhibition showcased some of the work of Richardson and Ross, Darlington designers of glass green houses. Catalogues and drawings from the local studies centre archives were displayed alongside a fantastical architectural paper collage that told the story of the Crystal Palace. This significant architectural landmark was visited by Richardson and Ross and influenced the future direction of the Darlington duos architectural garden designs using engineering inspired by and for nature.
