Forest of Imagination, the Bath based pop-up contemporary arts event, has been crowned best Temporary Landscape at the 2018 Landscape Institute (LI) Awards.
Created by landscape architect Grant Associates and arts charity 5x5x5=creativity, the annual four-day festival has seen different spaces in, and around, Bath transformed into fantastical ‘forests’ for the last five years.
Staged in partnership with a host of local creative businesses and artists, Forest of Imagination aims to heighten people’s sense of nature in urban environments by reimagining familiar spaces.
The event uses playful sound installations, visual art trails and ‘hands on’ workshops to encourage people of all ages to connect with nature and their own creativity.
Announcing Forest of Imagination as winner of ‘Design for a Temporary Landscape’, judges for the LI Awards said the event demonstrated ‘the potential of landscape architecture to be a social catalyst’.
The judges also said Forest of Imagination had a ‘high impact on Bath in terms of increasing visitor numbers, collaborators and funding’.
Forest of Imagination has been held each year in the Bath area since 2014 in a variety of locations including Bath Spa University, Queen Square, Bath Abbey and Abbey Green, and Bushey Norwood – part of Bath’s National Trust Skyline Walk.
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