CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS AND PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT
Digital media and the Rural Economy: The Wired Rural Community
Littoral/Projects Environment is working on the outlines for an Objective 2 bid for a Digital Media and the Rural Economy development programme for Lancashire and the Forest of Bowland, in partnership with Northern Rural Partnerships, The Folley Gallery Lancaster, and the Bowland Initiative.The aim is to explore and develop new possibilities for rural and farming communities to work with artists on projects involving digital media, ICT and telecommunications.
See Digital Art and Farming, under the Art and Agriculture programme.
Leicester Longwool sheep; photograph Tessa Bunney (from Eat Better, Eat British)
European Wool Cultures
Proposal to develop a programme of wool-based textile-based public art installations and commissions to accompany a European conference on wool cultures, planned for 2003.Textiles and the Social
Littoral/Projects Environment is interested in promoting new textile art projects and research in the context of social change. The trust helped to set up the North West Textile forum as a regional agency to pursue these aims. Projects Environment coordinated the first regional Textile Conference, at in July 1998, and since then has been exploring new commissioning and curatorial projects with artists and communities in the North West. is interested in multicultural textile traditions and contemporary practice in the north West, and regard these as an important new area from which to develop economic and social practices.The trust is currently researching a textile art project based on the immigrant communities and multi-cultural textile traditions. This will be located around Cheetham Hill Road, one of the main routes into Manchester, along which Jewish, Irish, Bosnian, Asian, Chinese and African immigrants have settled and opened their businesses.
Manchester Nigerian artist Toro Adeniran-Kane and a friend viewing Walter Lloyd's collection of Asian textiles in his Lakeland yurt
Littoral is also exploring new textile art interfaces with agricultural communities in the North West.
Lancashire farmers attend a wool-grading demonstration organised by Littoral and the British Wool Marketing Board, 1999
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