Abstract :
The paper charts the progress of the ‘Window
Sills’ project in Exeter, UK which brings together
artists, art students, cultural organisations, and
the community in a plan for urban renewal.
Seeking to loosen boundaries, it uses the idea of
‘thirdspace’ to question the notion of public and
private space, using the city’s and its river’s
constant changes as an analogy. The window
and the window sill become the interface where
the project seeks a transformational act in the
lives of those involved by locating the experience
in the local and the personal, although the implications
cross much wider boundaries.
