10 days | 8 students | 6 benches | 1 borrowed garden

As part of a council initiative to open up the Valley Gardens area of Brighton, the University was commissioned to design and build some benches to accompany a borrowed garden. There is a long term plan for this area of town, and this first event in this location is part of the public consultation to see how the local community respond. An intense period was spent designing, prototyping, felling timber, assembling and installing.

"Working with the University has been brilliant; they have provided us with creative, beautiful solutions to a very specific brief, at incredibly short notice.  Visiting the area almost every day for the last couple of weeks it’s fantastic to see how the benches have not only altered the space, but are being used in a way that is directly informed by their design."
Quote from Emma Friedlander, Public Realm Officer at Brighton Council