Inspiring objects
The students took their inspiration from artefacts in the Berwick Museum and Art Gallery collection. These objects tell stories of Berwick’s landscapes, and past and present working life, and the students used them as a starting point to understand the town as well as to define their creative concepts.
Living heritage
The students’ projects considered the town walls themselves as an important piece of living heritage, and imagined what they would be like if they became even more alive with stories, people and ecologies.
The students’ proposals represent possible futures for the old town walls in rich and diverse ways, sometimes pushing ideas further than reality would currently allow.
Anaïs Chanon, Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, was a member of the course teaching team. She said, “Providing the students with a course brief based on an existing project enabled them to gain experience in developing projects grounded in local needs, leveraging landscape as a mediator between culture and ecology.”
The Living Barracks team praised the students for their ability to open up “new connections between Berwick’s heritage, its communities and the next generation of landscape and cultural professionals”. They see the collaboration between ECA students and the Living Barracks as “an important way of widening the conversation around living heritage”.
Animation
At the end of the project the students created an animation about their work. The students involved were Sofie Brøgger Jensen, Xiaoke Hu, Carol Ng, Kerry-Anne Saouter and Anna Schroeder.
The animation will be shown in Berwick-upon-Tweed as part of Heritage Open Days (15, 17, 19 and 20 September 2026). You can find details on the Heritage Open Days website.
Course teaching team: Neil Bancroft, Anaïs Chanon, Emily Cropton, John Darbyshire, Steffan Gwynn, Rebecca Heatlie, Hazel Mei and Sophie Tombleson.
