Survey capturing people’s views on public spaces in Warwickshire

The ASIOS project investigated the social (non-monetary) value of the Warwickshire County Council ‘Our Spaces’ programme; a project aimed at helping to reinvigorate public spaces in the wake of the Covid pandemic by installing public art interventions in seven towns throughout Warwickshire. Art and culture play an increasingly vital role in the vitality and vibrancy of places and there is a growing trend towards experiential town and high street centres. The Our Spaces project aimed to embed art and culture in our places to support regeneration activity as well as engender a sense of place and pride amongst residents and communities. In this project, we worked with the Our Spaces commissioning team to examine how the artistic interventions benefit the public realm, focusing on the health and wellbeing impacts of spending time in public spaces, the public appreciation of space quality, and the use of the spaces before and after intervention. The project involved two local artists who produced an artistic response to the Our Spaces installations and the reactions of the public.