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TALK + FILM - Design for Inclusion: Urban Benches as a resource for sociability and respite

You are warmly invited to a Place, Inclusion and Equity research seminar in the Department of Landscape:

Design for Inclusion: Urban Benches as a resource for sociability and respite

Tuesday 16th February
Lecture Theatre 5, Arts Tower, University of Sheffield

(1-2pm, followed by a more informal discussion at floor 12 Arts Tower 2 - 2.45pm)

Clare Rishbeth will be presenting findings of her recent ‘Connected Communities’ AHRC project, as outlined in The Manifesto for the Good Bench. The seminar will include the showing of the film short “Alone Together: the social life of benches”. The filmmaker and co-investigator in the research, Esther Johnson, will reflect on the process and insights of collaborations between filmmaking and social research.