Artist Matt Baker's presentation for the Highlands & Islands RTPI Chapter was part of a discussion event hosted on 21 June 2012 in Inverness. Baker focussed on how Public Art can act as a key tool during all stages of planning for developing, interpreting and connecting the fabric of a place. www.mattbaker.org.uk

1. Artwork = Strategy x Process + Action / Place (+ the Scottish Nation)
(and vice-versa)

2. PART ONE – The aRty Bit
Momentum - trajectories
Torsten Hagerstrand

3. PART TWO – Artists as part of design teams
and strategic thinking (whatever that is)

4. Gorbals – Crown St
Regeneration Project:
Interpreting a masterplan
for the public

5. Percent for Art - an area-wide strategy

6. Re IMAGINING THE CITY
Inverness Old Town:
Artists contributing
to a masterplan

7. Key Points
1. A means of engaging the
creative economy sector in
the regeneration of the town
2. Directly involving local people
in the future of their town
3. Building confidence and
capacity locally
4. Changing the way a place is
is perceived from the outside

8. The ‘renaissance’ of the
Old Town district is a
major part of delivering
the Inverness City Vision

9. Plan 1 Not something people could get involved with…..

10. Imagining a Cultural City Centre-
a range of approaches

11. Church St – a potential cultural destination..?

12. Imagining the Centre 09.09.06 -14 Highland artists take over Church St
for one day, to test local reaction to the idea of a ‘cultural city centre’

14. Inverness Old Town Art receives the maximum award from the Scottish Arts Council
‘Artists Work in Public Places’ scheme

16. PART THREE – working with housing
and where that can lead…

24. Everywhere is a point of intersection

25. ‘Govan has had two eras
of greatness – and that
is two more than most
places’

26. View of Govan in approx 1750 – showing Doomster Hill on site of Govan Riverside