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Towards the Edge - Community Narratives Exhibit

June 2007

The Sensory Trust in partnership with Eden designed and installed a new exhibit as part of ‘Towards the Edge’, an exhibition at the Eden Project giving people an opportunity to learn more about Eden’s proposed new biome, The Edge, and contribute to its development.

The Edge exhibit

‘Towards the Edge’ was housed on the Stage area at Eden and was open during the summer months. Many other organisations took part such as Divine Chocolate, Oxfam, and Wateraid. Eden also showcased some of their other exciting projects such as “Mud between your toes” and “I am an Earthling”.

Our exhibit was an interactive installation promoting the ideas behind The Edge and the New Ground project. New Ground was a community regeneration project involving Eden Project, WildWorks, Post-Mining Alliance, Health Complexity Group and the Sensory Trust, supported by the Carnegie Trust. Using just luggage tags and a rotary washing line the exhibit inspired thousands of people to think about, talk about and share their hopes, opinions and concerns (3000 tags and counting).

For people who couldn't make it to Eden to take part in the exhibition we invited contributions by email.

We sought views on:

Who can you count on?
What makes your favourite place?
What would you like to be remembered for?
If you could change one thing in the world what would it be?
Who or what do you value most?

Luggage labels with contributions