Client: Camden Council & Community School.
Narrative: The body and the city function in a similar way.
A series of creative workshops run in partnership with the Hunterian Museum where Camden Community School students aged 11-16 could re-imagine connections between the body and the city, creating body maps which were exhibition at the Lethaby Gallery, London.
A book about the project was produced by Camden Council.
- The students visited the Hunterian Museum where the workshop took place for inspiration about the human body.
- Students researched and sketched body parts before taking part in the Embodying the City workshop at the Hunterian Museum.
- A student working with wooden sticks at the Hunterian Museum Workshop
- In this Body-Map a leg is likened to a drawbridge.
- Students from Camden Community School create body maps of the city for an exhibition
- A student working with aluminium to create elements of a body-map in the “embodying the city” workshop at the Hunterian Museum.
- Students were limited to working with particular materials to produce Body-Maps of their bodies as the city.
- A poster from the “Embodying the City” exhibition of work by Camden Community School Students, Lethaby Gallery, London.
- The Body-Maps were displayed at the Lethaby Gallery in London.