Kilkenny Recreation and Sports Partnership (KRSP) commissioned Workhouse Union to undertake the planning, design, and implementation of a consultation process on the future development of a neighbourhood park – a 2.5 hectare greenfield site, centrally located in Ferrybank, Kilkenny/Waterford.

Workhouse Union undertook a participatory design process to engage people in how a park could be designed, developed and maintained in their neighbourhood -through a process of twenty-one, arts-led creative workshops, on-site activities, group discussion and one to one conversations.

Taking place over two months, five themes were explored: Threshold, Move, Play, Gather and Ecology. Underpinning the workshops was the understanding that our imaginative sense of space, our memories of and attachment to place, are often as important as its physical characteristics in determining future use.