IN DEVELOPMENT

WORK DEVELOPED WITH COMMUNITIES ACROSS ST CLAIR-SUPERIOR, CLEVELAND (2026)

Making Room

A community co-creation project developed with residents in St Clair–Superior, Cleveland. Through story circles, walkshops, shared tables, multi-arts making and participatory theatre, the work creates space for people to meet, listen and act together.

“Even the smallest acts of imagining hold within them seeds of transformation.”

— Vlad Glăveanu, Possibilities Studies: A Manifesto (2022)

Making Room

A community co-creation project developed with residents in St Clair–Superior, Cleveland. Through story circles, walkshops, shared tables, multi-arts making and participatory theatre, the work creates space for people to meet, listen and act together.

Making Room

A community co-creation project developed with residents in St Clair–Superior, Cleveland. Through story circles, walkshops, shared tables, multi-arts making and participatory theatre, the work creates space for people to meet, listen and act together.

Methods:
Story circles. Walkshops· Shared tables· Arts & Crafts.
Participatory theatre.

Locations:
St Clair–Superior (diners, churches, public spaces, Ingenuity)

HERE IS WHERE WE

MEET

An immersive installation and theatre work
emerging from Making Room. Combining archive
material, participant contributions and live
performance, it creates a shared space.

Format:
Immersive installation· Participatory theatre · Archive.

Presented at:
Community venues + IngenuityFest 2026

Story Mapping

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STORY-MAP: Take a moment to explore the creative prompts below — reflect on your city, then send us your thoughts using the form.

An open call to notice, reflect and respond to what lies beneath. Inspired by the Hopewell Culture and Greater Cleveland’s layered ground, The Hopewell Project invites you to choose one or more prompts and respond in your own way.

Choose your format – text, image, voice, or video.

Your submission will be added to a digital map and may be included in exhibitions, workshops and community archives.

Share your voice. Add to a living public record of place, memory, and connection.

Submit Your Response
An open call to notice, reflect, and respond to what lies beneath. Inspired by the Hopewell Culture and Greater Cleveland’s layered ground, The Hopewell Project invites you to choose one or more prompts and respond in your own way.

Choose your format – text, image, voice, or video.

Your submission will be added to a digital map and may be included in exhibitions, workshops and community archives.

Share your voice. Add to a living public record of place, memory, and connection.

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Absent Friends Prompt: Tell us about a place in Greater Cleveland that meant something to you but isn't there anymore. Supporting info: We're collecting memories of lost or transformed places: schools, stores, factories, bus stops, clubs or homes.

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Still Matters Prompt: What’s crumbling, fading, or being left behind but still matters to you? Supporting Info: Decay doesn’t mean unimportant. We’re interested in overlooked or ageing things that still carry meaning.

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Insider Knowledge Prompt: What do people here know that outsiders might not? Supporting Info: This is a space for local phrases, rituals, shared knowledge, or unspoken rules. What’s only obvious if you live here?

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On Foot, In Place Prompt: Tell us about a walk you often take. Supporting Info: Describe what you see, hear, or feel as you move through familiar paths - what’s changed, what’s stayed the same.

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Off the Record Prompt: What wouldn’t make it into the official story of this place? Supporting Info: Skip the headlines. We want the underreported, the unseen, the skipped-over. Share something from the margins: a side street, a quiet ritual...

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Ground Truths Prompt: Map your relationship with Cleveland in five places. Supporting Info: This isn’t about accuracy, it’s about meaning. Choose five places that shape your story of the city. They could be connected by memory, emotion, routine...

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By submitting, you allow The Hopewell Project to use your work in exhibitions, publications, or audio pieces. All entries are anonymous unless you give permission to be named or heard. Your copyright is retained. Non-commercial use only.

I give permission for my contribution to be shared publicly across exhibitions, publications, and digital platforms.

I give permission for my contribution to be used within the project (e.g., internal workshops or research), but not shared publicly or published.

Please do not use or share my contribution in any way without first contacting me for specific permission.