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Green Spaces Project of
the Month
March
2005 - Viewfinder
Project, Sheffield
Contact: Claire Risbeth, tel: 0114 222
0606, email: c.rishbeth@sheffield.ac.uk
The Viewfinder project combined a
basic course in photography with research
into refugees' perception and experiences
of urban green spaces. It took place in
Sheffield in 2004 and was a collaboration
between the Department of Landscape,
Sheffield University and Positive
Negatives, a community based training
organisation.
The aims of the research were to find
out how refugees and asylum seekers
perceive and use public open space,
including how this relates to their
homeland experiences and memories, and to
look into what designers and managers can
do to encourage use of public space by
this population group.
A group of Sheffield resident refugees
and asylum seekers, ranging in age from
17 to 45 and originating from
Afghanistan, Liberia, Rwanda, Somalia and
Zimbabwe visited and photographed ten
green spaces around the city over a
twelve week period. They compared notes
on their responses to a range of
different green space environments,
including formal public gardens, heritage
parks, community parks, semi-natural
cultural landscapes and parks festivals.
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