Presenting a new project by artist duo Tuning Group. Commissioned by Nottingham City Council and Digital Nottingham, produced by Broadway's Near Now.
The Weather Station responds to research and data collected by the Hello Nottingham project on how the public feel about Climate Change. The data has been translated into a blueprint map, soundscape and installation, using the weather as a way of talking about our relationship to climate.
The map as a textile artwork presented on deckchairs at Nottingham Green Festival 2023. Creating a space for conversations about Climate Change.
The drawing maps the spectrum of feelings expressed by people in Nottingham over the past year; positive as living, negative as extractive and the somewhere-in between as complex and entangled.
Centred around Nottingham's Arboretum public park, and first presented as part of Nottingham Green Festival 2023, four celebrated greenspaces are held in an emblematic form, surrounded by neighbouring landscapes of the city with the Trent connecting the mirrored seas.
A blueprint map illustration representing meaningful local greenspaces and data collected through the Hello Nottingham project.
An interactive version of the artwork, making use of capacitive touch sensing technology, is being produced in collaboration with artist Graham Elstone.
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About the project
Digital Nottingham collaborated with Nottingham City Council in creating a year-long conversation about the Carbon Neutral agenda with the city.
Tuning Group were commissioned to make a visual and interactive response to data collected through Hello Nottingham, a project which lets you take part in playful and thought-provoking conversations about Climate Change with objects and places around the city.
These conversations are supported by the use of an interactive playful city-wide layer of talking street furniture objects facilitated by experienced providers Hello Lamp Post.
An example of the types of data collected and presented by the Hello Nottingham project.
About Tuning Group
Tuning Group is a social arts collective set up by Near Now Studio member Mo Langmuir and Samuel Collins.
With a focus on shared space and the collective social experience, they work towards the disruption and expansion of existing Western paradigms, offering to rethink human-non-human relationships and envisage new models for collective storytelling with an emphasis on place.