Landscape & Art Projects
Elements of Action collaborates with different design practices in landscape and art projects. Recent teams in park, play spaces, healthcare & greenways with Kim Wilkie, Robert Bourke Architects Dublin, Natural Play Specialist Joanne Coughlan, Aoife Banville Visual Artist. They use experience in project management delivery and theories of placemaking to ensure meaningful community engagement and activity led codesign & collaborations for projects and have a toolkit for connecting and assisting how visitors and locals experience and use public places.
New Ross Greenway Sculptures
In collaboration with Aoife Banville (2023)
Reimagining the steel railway tracks in New Ross, a series of 2 sculptures was created by Elements of Action and Aoife Banville along the Greenway. The concept of these pieces was informed as a reminder of the routes and journeys taken by the thousands of people who traveled and worked on the railway in the past. Investigation and the reusing of the historic railway tracks in the new contemporary setting of the greenway was a key vision of the project. The physical materiality of the pieces work both spatially along the new greenway but reflect and remember the cultural importance of the railways to the town. Modeling sizes, shapes, weights & design of foundations was key in the delivery of the two sculptures - one with 5 uprights and the second with 3 steel uprights.
This piece was commissioned by Wexford County Council Culture Team in partnership with South East Greenway under the ‘Back to our Routes and Roots’ project, funded under the Creative Ireland project and delivered by Esther Gerrard & Ed Coveney of Elements for Action in collaboration with Local Artist Aoife Banville.
Maggie’s Centre in Swansea
(2018-2020)
Elements of Action was commissioned to design and build a herringbone slate and turf bank as a multi-functional sculptural boundary installation in the gardens of the Maggie’s Centre in Swansea which is located beside the Singleton Hospital site.
The Cancer Care Centres were founded by Maggie Keswick Jencks and offer a new type of cancer care, the Swansea Centre is designed by the late Japanese Architect Kisho Kurokawa and the garden was designed by Kim Wilkie and completed by Garbers and James in December 2011. A place specific response to enclose, shield and enhance the sanctuary and design of the centre from the adjacent noisy roads.
The slate was sourced from a local quarry and the herringbone pattern and sporadic Walsh native planting created a natural and softened architectural element.
Orchard Peace Park
(2023-2024)
Funded by Creative Ireland, in collaboration Wexford County Council, the Irish Architectural Foundation, and Joanne Coughlan (Studio AULA)
Using the input of local community members of all ages via surveys and 5 in-person workshops, the team listened to the communities thoughts and experiences to co-design a new vision for Orchard Peace Park in Enniscorthy that complements and builds on the existing design, so as to increase the use of the park and reduce anti-social behaviour.
The final proposal of short-term and long-term enhancements focuses on the core visions of maintaining and growing biodiversity, creating places for people to gather, implementing more pause and play points along paths, improving safety, and increasing culture features.
Enniscorthy Activity Garden
In Collaboration with Connect the Dots and Robert Burke Architects (2021-2022)
We used our approach of meaningful engagement to build openness and involve a diverse population of staff; patients and locals in a co-designing placemaking initiative for the grounds of St John’s Community Hospital. Working with a number of client partners including St Johns Community Hospital Wexford County Council (Culture & Creativity Team & Age Friendly Program) Health Service Executive. (HSE) and Creative Ireland and the Irish Architecture Foundation. Funded by Creative Ireland.
This was a community-led design project which ended with a master plan layout for elements and features of the Enniscorthy Activity Garden, a guide on budget, and phased delivery proposal.
Lunchbox Kinsale
In collaboration with Tiny Homes.ie.
Private Client - Project Management, Bespoke Design and Delivery of dining and entertainment space.
Garden Designs
We under take planning permission, visual asessements and garden design master plan schemes.