Community Engagement

Our Community Engagement and Outreach strand focuses on mental health, neurodiversity, and inclusive cultural participation. We collaborate with artists, facilitators, and institutions to create spaces for reflection, connection, and sensory engagement through workshops, public gatherings, and research-led programmes. A core part of this work is research: we investigate how wellbeing is understood and supported within the cultural sector, and how creative practices can contribute to more accessible, inclusive, and socially responsive environments.

Slow Disasters in the Lynedoch Valley: Narrative Report

During Design Week South Africa (23–26 October), Food for Landscapes: Recipes for Slow Disasters unfolded in Cape Town as an exhibition and meeting point for thinking, tasting, and talking about how landscapes and people might heal. The project marks the first South African activation of a long-term, multi-continental project and methodology by British artist Andrew Merritt , which uses art, food, and ecological research to address “slow disasters” —a term coined by Merr

"Food for Landscapes: Recipes for Slow Disasters" at Design Week Cape Town

An exhibition and public session in Cape Town, resulting from a Field Kitchen activation in the Lynedoch Valley, South Africa. Exhibition Venue Church House, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town Exhibition Opening Hours 23 - 25 October 2025 10:00 - 17:00 26 October 2025 10:00 - 16:00 Interactive Session with the Public 26 October 2025 14:00 - 15:30 ( RSVP here ) Field Kitchen is part of Field Hospital, a methodology being activated across three continents. It uses art, food,

SHCG Conference 2025: Curating Communities

We’re pleased to announce that Looking Forward’s curator, Sylvia Keck will be speaking at the Social History Curators Group (SHCG) Conference 2025, taking place on 25–26 June. This year’s theme, Curating Communities , brings together practitioners exploring how museums and cultural organisations engage with the publics they serve. Sylvia’s talk, titled "Programming Community: Creative Health Practices in London’s Art Sector ," offers a critical reflection on the rise of crea

Feedforward: Creative Well-Being

On the 24th of January and the 7th of February, we brought together curators and community engagement leaders from across London to explore the intersection of art and mental well-being in a two-part Feedforward session titled Creative Well-being: Cultivating Mental Health through Artistic Collaboration . Feedforward: Creative Well-being seeks to uncover best practices, foster collaboration, and identify new opportunities for integrating mental health and community-focused a

Open Call for Self-Portraits

This is a call for all 18-30-year-olds who want to add their own wake-up self-portrait to our online gallery part of the project My Echo, My Shadow and Me . Deadline: 30 March 2023. My Echo, My Shadow and Me is our project within Esch European Capital of Culture 2022. It consists of a physical show at the University of Luxembourg (ended 31 December 2022), a book, and a virtual show. The online version of the project includes a selection of the material produced through the

My Echo, My Shadow and Me at University of Luxembourg

Our project within Esch European Capital of Culture 2022. The project takes place at the University of Luxembourg and involves over 50 young people, more than half refugees in temporary accommodation and camps. The exhibition My Echo, My Shadow and Me at Maison du Savoir, University of Luxembourg, is the outcome of regular autobiographical workshops led by artist Cristina Nuñez in 2021 and 2022, involving more than 50 people from three groups: a class C.O.P. (students who ha