The Ancoats Storyscape
&rchitecture is a design-led research atelier focused on creative spatial responses to global challenges like climate, social inequality, and resource justice. It challenges how to design for the ecological, social, and economic commons by creating creative commons in landscape architecture.
The AncoatsStoryscape explores how story-driven placemaking can reconnect fragmented communities and landscapes in the regenerated post-industrial neighbourhood in Ancoats, Manchester. The project focuses on gardening and street art as storytelling tools in intangible cultural practices that can shape streets into inclusive public spaces.
The project analyses how ecological and cultural threads are layered across five key streets through photographic research, mapping, and animation. These visual narratives are developed into spatial strategies using streetscape design, sustainable gardening and street art management. The final short film captures these proposals as a sequence of site-specific interventions across the area.
This work demonstrates how narrative-led landscape architecture can revive cultural memory and foster new forms of urban commoning, making heritage, ecology, and public life more visible, tactile, and inclusive.
