this/OUR is a participatory, place-based project that works with communities to engage with the places where they live and to reflect on their relationship to them, through creative, ecological, and community-focused encounters. The project is led by artists Basil Al-Rawi, Chris Finnegan, Katie Nolan, and Philip Ryan.
this/OUR uses prompts, provocations, invitations, and deep mapping methodologies to bring together community voices, artistic interpretations, historical narratives, and ecological perspectives, creating a layered and situated encounter with place.
The methodology draws inspiration from Jorge Luis Borges’ short essay On Exactitude in Science, exploring the tension between attempts to precisely define this place and the transient, relational nature of our connection to it.
this/OUR was originally developed in Glenbower Wood, Killeagh, East Cork, in partnership with Greywood Arts, the Glenbower Wood & Lake Committee, and the Sites of Fracture research project at the University of Birmingham. The project is supported by an Arts Council Arts Participation Project Award (2025) and a Cork County Council Arts Grant.
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this/OUR is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and Cork County Council
