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Compton Verney House Trust Play Interventions – Play Area February 2021 Compton Verney House Trust Play Interventions – Play Area February 2021 Compton Verney Exciting revitalising of playful spaces Fees £20,000 Deadline Invitation for expressions of interest before 8th March 2021 Compton Verney - An Extraordinary Place! What is the play offer at this time? Our current outdoor playground is situated in the woods at the end of a long avenue of Wellingtonia trees. It neighbours our busy Forest School site. The playground consists of a variety of conventional fixed adventure play equipment, which caters for pre-schoolers and children up to around 12 years. It has a few picnic benches and is a popular place for families to gather. The equipment, having been installed in 2011 is beginning to show signs of wear and tear, though could be imaginatively refreshed. The playground sits amongst a partially wooded area that offers some interesting potential. With the need to update the existing play area, we’re looking to collaborate with another organisation who will help us bring to life a new design, which will be exciting, modern and imaginative. We would like an engaging, unique experience for our audiences. Images , (see appendix) grounds map- attached to email What do audiences need now? We are reconsidering how this popular outdoor space could be transformed over the next two years. Our visitors, in part due to the pandemic, have very much focused on the offer in the grounds, we need to enhance this offer. We anticipate the whole project will in delivered in phases. We’ve been awarded funding from DCMS Cultural Recovery Funds to begin the process and complete the first two phases of the project. We want to create an exciting, challenging and imaginative playful space that visitors, young and old, wish to return to during each visit. We would like the organisation to consider opportunities, particularly for children, to pursue creative, imaginative and risk- taking play in this area. The playground could also provide a space that is activated with further programme and events in the future and could extend the overall space. This space will be an essential part of the visitor experience, free to use and a permanent feature. Whilst this area is our primary focus, opportunities to create play spaces and interventions around the site as an additional offer should be considered. We work closely with our local community on our projects, to ensure that what we’re proposing meets their needs. As an organisation we’re dedicated to diversifying the offer and providing inclusive experiences. We would be interested to hear some of your initial ideas of how we might engage with our neighbours and the wider Midlands community on this project. Our work with Morris Hargreaves McIntyre has identified the requirements to enhance the proposition, to activate more spaces across the grounds and to welcome people of all ages, with this in mind, Compton Verney needs to be more ‘playful’, our vision is articulated in the attached document in the Compton Verney Manifesto. Sounds like you? We would like to involve an organisation: • Who will provide a strong design concept and plan based on your interpretation of the site and consultation process, capturing the brand essence as outlined in the Manifesto • Who has a clear understanding of audiences and audience behaviour • Who have a strong learning and play philosophy • Who will consider what play means and looks like for different age groups • Who has a strong creative and artistic sensibility that will influence the consultation development, design and delivery of the project. • Who will inspire, guide and challenge • Who have a history of collaboration and participatory practice • Who considers environmental and sustainability impacts of the project • Support with the documenting the project journey, which can be shared with our audiences • Who is able to design deliverable outcomes which meet the requirements of Health and Safety, Safeguarding and Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion practice There is a further £20,000 which can be used to deliver stage 1 of this project and can be included as part of this brief as a further outcome. At the very least this will be utilised to make safe the existing equipment. All costs include VAT if applicable. Timeline Phase 1 • Engage and select Creative Organisation/ artists • Consultation period with children/families who will use the playground and Compton Verney team • Site visits and information gathering • Development • Producing a creative design concept for feedback Phase 2 • Creative partner undertake design, costing, technical specs for installation • Creative partner Produces Final Design Concept, costed plan, delivery plan, and proposals for delivery of phase 1 (if this has been included in the brief) • Presents to stakeholders Phase 3 • Install of new playground begins and phase 1 is completed Approach and Process We know our current climate is complex and uncertain and this may present some difficulties to site access or consultation process. We are happy to discuss online and digital ways of working until travel restrictions are reviewed. We will review every expression of interest in line with the government guidelines, around Covid 19 restrictions and safety. Submission and deadline Please send your expression of interest answering the questions below to [email protected] before 8th MARCH 2021 We are open to receiving expressions of interest by: • Written submissions in a short and concise document • Include a detailed Project Gant Chart – setting out a road map against key activities • Create a short video with images (no longer than six minutes) • Please use wetransfer for any files over 2 MB • Please include an initial break down of the costs and how you will spend the budget Decision: If we’d like to explore your expressions of interest or proposals in more detail, we will be in touch by the W/C 15th March 2021 Expression of Interest You or your company Tell us a bit about you or your company – the kind of work you do, what else you’ve done or have planned and what motivates your work. Please include images, videos and website links. Your work We’d like to hear about your initial response to the brief. Tell us why the project excites you and how you might approach the brief, a pricing response and methodology. Please include images, videos and website links. Availability We will begin the project in early April 2021. Let us know when you’re free and if the time of year affects your work. Please give as much detail as you can. Covid-19 We can ensure a Covid safe event environment on our site for you and your team, our visitors and staff. How will you ensure a Covid safe environment for your team if visiting site and liaising with audiences? Equity, Diversity and inclusion Please tell us about your commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. Health and Safety Health and Safety requirements must be met, and any design proposals will be of the appropriate deliverable standard against HSE requirements. Compton Verney adheres to Safeguarding standards. Grounds Master Plan This project forms an element of a wider study into the use of the entire 120 acres of land and is seen as a key element for development. If Phase 1 funds are utilised for shorter term interventions, further funding will be raised for subsequent phases. About us- Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, nine miles from Stratford upon Avon, is a stunning location where art and landscape meet. Boasting a nationally-accredited art gallery and a ‘Capability’ Brown designed park of 120 acres, Compton Verney has six permanent collections. We’re able to offer to visitors of all ages a place for discovery, play and reflection, somewhere to have fun, explore, learning and experience. Founded with the mission to create a space for dialogues across the creative disciplines, to represent the underrepresented and make art, culture and natural environment accessible to all. This is a place for exciting exhibitions of the highest quality, with world class collections ranging from ancient Chinese bronzes to British and European fine and decorative arts, to British Folk Art and 20th century design and natural sciences. Since 2000, our Park has been the context for commissions from contemporary visual artists including Anya Gallaccio, Simon Patterson, Kate Whiteford, Faye Claridge, Alex Hartley & Tom James, Krijn de Koning and Ariel Schlesinger. It is also the site of important ecology, biodiversity and geological significance, with a collection of historic trees, lake and wildflower meadows. From 2020, we are broadening the breadth of visual arts and creative practices we present through a new live programme. It is also a place where people enjoy and engage with the natural environment and heritage through contemporary experiences. To learn more about us please visit Website, Instagram, Twitter & Facebook Appendix: Playground currently Compton Verney House Trust February 2021 Compton Verney Activating Engaging and Inclusive Creative Spaces Fees £15,000 (Design, plans, costings, activity plan to deliver outcomes, artists interventions/interpretation strategy, audience strategy, interventions – stage 1) Deadline Invitation for expressions of interest before 8th March 2021 Compton Verney Activating Engaging and Inclusive Creative Spaces Fees £15,000 including interpretative developments/creative interventions Deadline Invitation for expressions of interest before 8th March 2021 1 Where are we now? The adjoining rooms that make up the Discovery/ Family Rooms have evolved over the years. They are situated on the first floor and can be accessed by stairs or large lift. They have housed historic photographs of the site, contemporary responses to the permanent collections, reference and art books as well as been used as family break out spaces. The rooms are very popular with families of younger children, and also older people to take a rest.
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