Stobswell Forum

At WCAIR, we have had a long-standing partnership with the fantastic Stobswell Forum, the community council in an inner city, east end Victorian suburb of Dundee. Over the past 7 years, we’ve taken part in local events, run consultations, and even made physical changes locally with large-scale art works.

We first met the Forum through our colleagues at Dundee Science Centre, and took part in their local festival, Stobfest, in 2018. Since that time, we’ve taken part in lots of projects:

  • Stobfest and Doggyfest in every year they have run since
  • Staging our Translations art exhibition in Arthurstone Library, a key local venue
  • Running consultations around pocket parks, lighting in Baxter Park, and supporting the local activist groups around healthy ideas like 20MPH zones
  • Our mural and the related (award-winning) Craigie Street park project
  • Regreening the Eliza Street pocket park
  • Taking part in local events for families, particularly for those who rely on free school meals

And more.

Give the Forum a follow on Instagram, X, and Facebook to find out what’s going on! And, of course, you can discover all of our other public engagement and science art projects here on our site.

Stobie

Looking upwards at a bright, colourful mural on a 7-storey building
A close-up detail of a purple logo on the blue background of a mural
A view of Craigie Street, Dundee, with a colourful science mural flanked by other buildings and trees
A view of Craigie Street, Dundee, with our mural and other buildings
A straight-on view of our mural, with DNA shapes and crystals
A copper sculture nestled within some St. John's Wort plants
A close-up detail of a crystal from our mural, painted in a gradient of yellows, pinks, and blues
Yellow flowers from our garden, with the School of Life Sciences in the background
The arches of an old building, light in orange and pink lights
The interior of Baxter Park Pavilion, with a statue lit in purple
The 5 central arches of Baxter Park Pavilion, lit up purple and orange
A multi-storey wall with no windows
StobFest2021 banner
Paul from Dundee Science Centre models some of the exhibits
Science is so fetch
Some of the parasiteseeing exhibits went on a trip of their own
Police at Stobfest 2019 Gala Day playing Drug Discovery Snakes and Ladders
Flowers in the Tayview allotments in Stobswell