Artswork, working in partnership with young cultural changemakers at Playland, Portsmouth, is seeking an experienced interior designer to work collaboratively with young people aged 16 to 30 to redesign our youth-led creative space.
We want Playland to feel welcoming, cohesive and more like a home for the young people who use it, while remaining a versatile space that can accommodate exhibitions, performances, workshops, meetings and other youth-led creative activity.
Young people will be central to the design process. We are not looking for an interior designer to arrive with a ready-made solution. We want to appoint someone who can listen, interpret the ideas and priorities of young people, bring professional design expertise to the process and develop the space with them.
Playland supports young people aged 16 to 30 to develop creative projects, build skills and create opportunities for themselves and their communities.
Young people have opportunities to lead workshops in creative skills and practices of their choice and to turn their ideas into reality, whether that means developing an exhibition, leading a community project or exploring a new area of creative practice. For many, this represents their first experience of facilitating or leading creative activity.
We are currently exploring ideas around third spaces, community cohesion, belonging and the future and legacy of Playland through listening consultations with young people. The findings from this work will help inform the redesign of the space.