Dundee students have designed posters to display around the city as part of an initiative promoting regeneration.
Hayley Whelan, Mhairi Anderson, Jonathan Liddle and Sue Beveridge launched Dundee and the Waterfront, a project that displays Dundonians’ opinions about the changes happening in the city.
Located in the heart of the city at Dock Street, the 18 posters depict familiar areas of Dundee.
The students are using social media and public discussion events to gather answers to questions such as ‘what does Dundee’s regeneration mean to you?’ and ‘what does the regeneration mean to your city?’.
Key words will be selected from these responses and applied to the posters by pasting them up over a number of weeks, until December 21.
The project team are studying for a Masters in art, society and publics at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.
Hayley, 23, said: “The posters have been up for about a week now.
“These show different parts of Dundee old, new, run down, redeveloped.
“We’ll be making words out of paper and pasting them on to the posters gradually, until we have lots of them.
“Our intention is that the words will build up over the next few weeks to show what our city’s people think about Dundee’s regeneration, including the waterfront.
“There are a lot of good things happening in Dundee and it’s important that people feel a part of them.”
The students were invited to create the posters by On Site Projects in conjunction with Nomas projects who provide a platform for socially engaged art and performance in Dundee.
A discussion event will be held today from 2 to 3.30pm in the event space located in the Masters studios at DJCAD.
This is an opportunity to discuss the poster project and also engage in conversation about the waterfront and Dundee’s regeneration.
Discussion will be followed by a walk to the Dundee and the Waterfront posters on Dock Street to paste the first lot of words.
See more at www.facebook.com/dundeeandthewaterfront.