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We co-develop longterm, embedded programmes that respond to the needs of people and place, through the slow, often invisible work of building and sustaining relationships and dialogue with people who live and work here.

These become the setting for artists commissions and residencies. Alongside these programmes, we continually support and enable community embedded (and sometimes further afield) creative opportunities for locally based artists through Anything, here and for young people through Yes and…

Our work sits across three main themes; The natural environment and the more than human, Future economies and ecologies and Where we are (at).

Climate Lab Pendle

How can we hold space for people to come together to learn and also share and process their feelings about climate change?

We are hosting a series of Climate Fresks* and Talkaoke* conversations around Pendle, and gathering a picture of barriers to climate action and engagement through audio documentation and commissioned writing from the community.

Lead by thinking around climate psychology, this programme has been co-developed by In-Situ and climate educator and activist Tom Deacon and is funded by Pendle Borough Council and will feed into Pendle's the climate action plan. 
Find out more about Climate Lab Pendle and read our case study
a close up of a brown table with' is this our future?' written on it with blue chalk, next to several cards, one is a picture of a city scape with the words 'growing inequality' on it

* Climate Fresks were developed by a University professor in France, as a way of making simpler for his students the hefty IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report. Cutting out the report's main graphics, he asked the students to sort these into cause and effect. This has now developed as an open source activity takes groups on a journey starting with basic human activities like building and eating, slowly unfolding a picture of where we are heading. Millions of people around the world are now taking part in Climate Fresks.

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* Talkeoke was devised by our long-time collaborators, The People Speak and is a non-hierarchical talk show that deepens connections between diverse groups 

Tom Deacon, a white man with a baseball cap and beard sits next to a white marquee and blackboard with red and blue rectangles on it, the words how are we connected> are written at the top. an older white lady with blue coat and sunglasses sits next to him
seven diverse people are sat on orange chairs around a round table with a hole in the middle, a white man with baseball cap and headset sits in the centre of the circle holding a microphone
A woman with light brown skin and brown blonde hair stands across a table from three young people with brown skin and black hair, one is reading from a card

This is Nelson 

This is Nelson is part of the Nelson Town Deal, and looks at how working alongside artists can support our collective reimagining of Nelson from the ground up.  

Working in a three way partnership between In-Situ, Building Bridges and Super Slow Way, the 4 year programme is due to complete in March 2026.

Now, we are looking at how our work of opening up underused spaces, thinking sustainably and supporting ground-up collective action in the town will continue to grow after this date.  We see what has happened so far as just a beginning. 
A diverse crowd gathered in a market town, they are facing forward and clapping

Nelson Festival of Culture and Althams Image: Diane Muldowney

Read more about This is Nelson
Three woman with headscarves are stood outdoors, next to them is a tree and a white man with a beard an baseball cap talks
A group of older white adults gather around a paper map on a table, they are pointing at something, a person is taking a photograph
A diverse group of young people are sat around a table with images laid out infront of them. there are coloured fabrics hanging down from the ceiling

Hillo Hub

Hillo Hub is a female-led physical activity programme for South Asian women in Nelson to support physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

The emphasis of the programme is on supporting physical activity and systems change to overcome the barriers, in dialogue with artists and creative practitioners. 

Thinking Out Loud

Thinking Out Loud is a space for shared reflective practice that considers and shapes our ways of working. 

Through exploratory processes (events, writing, films and conversations) we can ask questions of our work, wider systems and structures and the role of art in our everyday lives.

Platform to...

This is an area of work focused around Brierfield’s railway station. It has been slowly running for many years and began with an artist-led campaign to save the local signal box. Since then, we have worked with many partners including Network Rail, Connecting East Lancashire and the volunteer group Friends of Brierfield Station to consider connectivity, green transport and working to create access to an overgrown disused platform.

Now, we are focusing on the physical intersection of the cross roads on the Northlight complex (formally Brierfield Mill)  and how this can be a provocation to overlay with the major challenges of our time, to consider what we are signalling? around industrial growth and business as usual models of living, working and urban development.
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