Global Westbrook

Seizing the chance of this year’s staycation, Simon Cole, Dominic Rose and Jon Spencer of Transit Collective invite you to ‘Global Westbrook’, an interactive walk that reveals 20 stories connecting Westbrook to the world. Through exploration, observation and storytelling, the collective uncovers clues in the environment to hidden histories, charting international connections and global influences.

Join Transit Collective after the morning walk for a zine making workshop exploring collective histories, the local environment and links with the world at large. Using a mixture of writing, stencilling, collage and simple hand-printing techniques, we’ll jointly create a typographic map that records and celebrates these relationships.

Walk

Our walk lead participants on a tour of Westgate, discovering traces of histories and global connections to be found in the urban environment, the architecture, the flora & fauna encountered along the way.

Workshop

Following the walk, our participants worked together to create a collective map of Westbrook, illustrating the ideas we had explored and their own responses to those themes.

Publication

As an outcome we produced a publication based on the walk and the participants collective map …