The recreation of Dundee’s Royal Arch out of cardboard will be one of the high points of a month-long festival of culture and creativity.
The Ignite festival of creativity 2016 features the largest and most diverse programme to date and offers exhibitions, talks, workshops and open studios in venues across the city.
One of the most unusual parts of the event is inviting the entire city to take part in a major piece of interactive public artwork.
The People’s Tower will rise from the Slessor Gardens on Saturday May 28 as the city’s Royal Arch is recreated out of cardboard boxes.
It will make history becoming the first public event to be held in the space but will require weeks of hard work to make it a reality.
Led by the Dundee Institute of Architects and project manager Claire Dow, volunteers will make up the 1,200 flat pack cardboard boxes needed to build the structure.
Saturday May 28 will then be Build Day, with passersby taping together cardboard boxes to build the huge replica of Dundee’s Royal Arch.
The event starts at 11am and people can join in or watch at any time.
Abertay Historical Society will be on hand in the afternoon with a free booklet they have produced telling the story of the original Royal Arch.
The fun project continues on Sunday 29 with Demolition Day, as the arch is lowered to the ground at midday, before the public are invited to stamp and trample on it.
Meanwhile, the festival itself opens on May 3 with an exhibition showing everything from Old Masters to The Beano and another that explores what it took to build HM Frigate Unicorn.
A similarly eclectic array of events will follow, led by Ignite Sparks, whose shows will celebrate Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design.
Art and design work from emerging artists and designers from Abertay University and Duncan of Jordanstone will be on display during degree shows and end of year exhibitions.
DCA will present the largest exhibition to date by Duncan Marquiss, recipient of the 2015 Margaret Tait award and a DJCAD graduate.
City Square will host two pop-up Dundee markets, with products from established and young designers plus food from city restaurants.
The Rep and V&A Dundee present an evening of theatre design with multi-award winning set, costume and video designers Bunny Christie and Finn Ross, while Remembering Witch’s Blood will feature Michael Marra recorded from the original 1987 show, accompanied by his daughter, Alice Marra, singing live.
Workshops will show how to create a paper pirate ship, and if that wasn’t enough, the last weekend of May sees the inaugural Dundee Design Festival hit the city.