Imagine This Coastal Town

🍵 Join us for a chat over a free breakfast😋 where we will talk about our experience of Felixstowe from different perspectives. Together we will think about what might be different here in the future.

🌞Felixstowe is a place that radiates healthful living and wellbeing. The land and sea support livelihoods, leisure and blooming biodiversity. The port, the largest in England, provides crucial national infrastructure and contributes to a healthy local economy. In the summer holidaymakers flock to enjoy the beach, food, and culture in a gentle setting.

🌬️But things are always changing, here and in the wider world. And so, whether you are a resident, worker or visitor, we invite you to share your impressions of this coastal town and to consider: what kinds of futures do we imagine here, how will we live and what's important to sustain?

Who is this for? For adults of all ages. If you live or work here, or are a regular visitor to Felixstowe, and you would like to share your experiences of this place, this is for you!

Why are we doing this?

Imagining the possible futures of the places we care about is the first step to forging the futures we want. Your conversations will inform a first public rehearsal for an immersive fiction about future lives in Felixstowe, during Open Heritage week in September.

FREE - but booking is essential as places are limited

About the event hosts

• Prof Ann Light is a researcher into participatory design. She is studying whether/how people can be transformed by encounters with arts that engage with environmental and climate change.
• Ruth Catlow is an artist and organiser interested in how different creative processes can unleash community imaginations to open up new more mutualistic futures in places.

Image Felixstowe (2020) by Sam Wingate

🧑‍🔬 Please note this event is being included in a research project on the effect of immersive experiences. A researcher will be there to observe the event. Although the researcher will not be observing individuals, there is an opportunity on the day for you to decide if you wish to be part of the research or not. If you would like to know more about the research project before the event, please email Professor Ann Light at the University of Sussex (ann.light@sussex.ac.uk) and she will send you an information sheet.