Digital Artist Commission, Left Coast

Digital Artist Brief – Designing Our Natural World

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We would like to develop a digital platform (possibly an app or WhatsApp and website resource) that could help us connect all of the different strands of conversations that are happening about food and growing. To map and connect people to the common land, green spaces, places to collect food that exist currently in a patchwork across Blackpool. Considering Blackpool as whole, an urban farm of sorts. 

We need something that can: 

• Visually Map what exists now in terms of green spaces, some of this we will populate but we would like others to be able to populate it 
• Enable crowd sourcing, where public fruit trees, blackberry bushes, elderflower trees, nettle patches etc are, can the app provide notifications about when fruit is ready to pick? 
• Hold recipes we’ve collected from the community and provide notifications linked to the time the produce is available to harvest. As well as provide relevant recipes, stories or creative responses 
• Be something that can be added to and developed as the local landscape changes 
• Plot allotments and their open day’s 
• Identify green alley ways and pocket parks

As we are an arts organisation, we would like this to be well designed and illustrated, and ideally have a creative collaboration as an approach.

Applicants

We believe there are two elements to this brief.

1. A technical role – App/Website/WhatsApp development and content management system
2. A digital creative – Someone who can creatively respond to the application framework and information put on it by the public

We are looking for collaborations or organisations that can bring both elements together to apply for this opportunity.

Budget

£50,000 in total for full workable app/product, to include software, fixes, design and creative responses for 12 months.

To apply: Please provide a response as to why you are interested in the project, how your collaboration or organisation would approach the brief, the expertise you bring, examples of previous work, and a breakdown of how you would use the budget.

Applications to be sent to admin@leftcoast.org.uk by 25th November 2024.

Interviews will be December 11th 2024 in Blackpool or online if preferred.

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