Green In Our Cities

What green space have you seen or visited this week? What did you see or do in your green space? It may be a small park, a garden, a tree on your street or perhaps your favourite flower pot at home. We want to find out more about what you love about this green space, what you do there and how it makes you feel.

In this activity, you are going to create your own dream square for the future using collage, colours, patterns and textures! 

Take a look at your green space

Step by step

Step 1

Let’s make a viewfinder! Find a piece of cardboard that you can cut with scissors.

Step 2

Cut into 4 strips roughly the below sizes:
2x 1.5 by 21cm
2x 1.5 by 10cm

Step 3

Place your card strips in a rectangle like above, with the two small strips inside the long strips and tape together as shown.

Step 4

Cut a frame (see PDF) out and stick on top, or write the questions on each sides of your card rectangle.

Step 5

Take your viewfinder out for a spin and see what you find. Use it to see what you love, how you use your green space and how it makes you feel. Choose one of the questions on the sides of the viewfinder and answer it by framing your answer inside the viewfinder (see PDF).

Imagine your dream square

We want you to imagine your own dream square of the future – what would it look like? what activities would you do there? how would it make you feel to go there?

Imagine that your square is quite big, so it doesn’t need to look and feel the same in every corner, you can choose between 3-6 different ideas for your dream square.

If you have some old magazines, newspapers, boxes or wrapping paper have a look through these to find some colours, materials, patterns and textures that answer some of these questions. If you don’t have any of these materi- als or glue you can also pick a few colours and draw your own patterns!

Step by step

Step 1

Can you find or draw a pattern that makes you think of a calm space?

Step 2

Look for 2 different colours, textures or 3 pictures that make you think of a fun space

Step 3

What things would you have in your dream square to make you feel happy? See if you can find some pictures and patterns or draw your own

Step 4

What will make your dream square feel surprising? Can you pick out colours and textures that show this?

Step 5

Will there be areas of your square that are wild, or will it be organised and tidy? Can you find or draw a pattern that shows this?

Step 6

Is there anything else that you want to add to your dream square? Add or draw a pattern or texture and tell us how you want people to feel.

A green space of the future

Using your drawings, colours, textures and patterns on your ‘Imagining your dream square’ worksheet (see PDF), fill in the areas of your square to show us where you want things to go and how you want people to feel in your future green space.

Make sure to fill the square with all of your ideas and activities! For example, if you want your dream square to be more calm than surprising, cut out bigger sections of the calm pattern and place these in the square with smaller bits of paper for the surprising areas.

These discovery packs and workshops are designed by make:good to involve young people in the redesign of Grosvenor Square, a project by Grosvenor Britain & Ireland.

Find out more and get involved at www.grosvenorsquare.org

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