Here are some images of the work of Nils Norman who is designing our new play area in St Fagans. For more information about his work and other projects, please check out his website
The Gerrard Winstanley Radical Gardening Space, Reclamation Mobile Field Centre and Weather Station, (European Chapter). 2000 A custom made bike trailer that, when in transit, becomes a compact, weatherproof, lockable unit; roadworthy and user-friendly. It is designed to travel between allotments, parks, playgrounds, schools and squares, where it is parked, quickly assembled and made ready for action. When stationary the trailer opens to reveal a small photocopier, a library of books available for photocopying and a small weather station. On top is a solar panel which harvests solar energy while the trailer is outside. (A full battery is enough energy to make one copy.) The library consists of a unique collection of books on DIY culture, permaculture, urban gardening, alt/energy systems, utopias and issues of gentrification. The bike is named after Gerrard Winstanley, the leader and spokesperson for "the Diggers", a group of 17th Century indigent peasants who tried to defy the enclosure of common land by private interests: occupying it en masse, digging it up and cultivating it for food.
Public Workspace Playscape Sculpture Graz. 2009 A temporary outdoor play/work sculpture
Cambridge Bird Screens. 2014 Two bird screens with seating made from oak and ash from the site of a new park area, also included are built in bird nesting boxes and insect habitats. Trumpington, Cambridge. UK
The Folly of King George III, Springhornhof Kunstverein, Germany. 2015 A redesigned pavilion with a weather vane in the shape of the Hanoverian King George III's head, a paved area and jetty all inspired by the patterns of the land enclosure maps of the time and locale where common land was taken by the state and divided up into private property under the orders of the british king who ruled – the Kingdom of Hanover – at that time. All paviliion photos by Fred Dott. 2015
