Janet Vaughan
Co-Artistic Director
Country: UK
Cohort: CCL Creative Europe Wales 2017
"Regeneration."
About
Designer and Co-Artistic Director, Janet has designed site specific and touring performances for unusual spaces, devised theatre and new writing. Her freelance design career includes work with Theatre Absolute, the Belgrade Theatre, and a pop-up shop kit for the ground-breaking vInspired/Retail Trust Retail Ready People project in 2013. Janet’s designs were chosen to represent UK scenography at the Prague Quadrennial World Scenography Exhibitions in 1999 and 2015, and she is part of Julie’s Bicycle‘s first cohort of Creative Climate Leaders. She is a school governor, keen allotmenteer and a board member at Open Theatre & Ludic Rooms.
Project Highlights
The Nest
Adjacent to the Daimler Powerhouse on Coventry Canal, The Nest is a new home base and shared workspace for Talking Birds – and a place for people to come together to imagine better ways of doing things. Our Nest Residency programme and other artist support, development & collaboration opportunities all contribute to our goal of building a welcoming, values-driven, climate-conscious, regenerative, creative community.
Art For The People Citizens' Assembly
We wanted to explore how “”ordinary”” people imagined culture contributing to the necessary collective work of shaping a just, equitable, regenerative future that works for everyone. Our Citizens’ Assembly explored the question “”How will the arts, culture and creativity shape a better future for Coventry?””, and we are now working with participants to drive real people-powered change through realising the 9 recommendations.
Creative Accounting
We worked with Creative Accounting (a research partnership based at Coventry & Monash Universities) to produce an event researching the efficacy of experiential art-led interventions as a way to unlock business thinking and challenge accountants to reconsider their profession’s social and environmental responsibility.
