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Throughout the darkest moments of the pandemic, people found solace and joy in their local public parks, historic gardens, and natural landscapes, engaging with outdoor places in new ways.
From footpaths and fells to rivers and ruins, these explorations of heritage spaces gave us time to get outside, breathe the air and reflect on our experiences of lockdown.
In partnership with the National Forest Company, Westminster Abbey and Sampad, the National Remembrance Gardens produced a nationwide programme exploring communities’ engagement with local outdoor heritage during the pandemic.
The Lockdown Landscapes project provided us with the opportunity to learn more about the impact of Covid-19 on people around the nation, inspiring remembrance of those who we have lost, marking the sacrifices of those who served, and encouraging us all to see the value of our heritage landscapes in years to come.
Follow the links below to learn more about the artworks that were produced by the Lockdown Landscapes communities, the stories that were revealed along the way, and what the future holds for the people involved.
Lockdown Landscapes was all about telling stories, helping us to understand the real lived experiences of people during the pandemic.
As part of the project we recruited and trained a group of Heritage volunteers, equipping them with skills that they needed to collect oral histories of people from a wide range of ages and backgrounds. These oral histories were catalogued and archived at the National Remembrance Gardens, helping people to learn about the ways in which different people experienced the outdoors during lockdowns, and enabling us to engage even more people with the Lockdown Landscapes project in the future.
For their invaluable contribution to the success of Lockdown Landscapes, the project partners would like to thank:
• Professor Paul Crawford
• Dr Helen Foster
• Colin Hyde
• Lara Ratnaraja
• Amy Leung
• Libby Scarlett
• Rebecca Twiston-Davies
Our Lockdown Landscapes programme was created in partnership with:
We would also like to thank The National Lottery Heritage Fund for making this project possible, and for their support throughout.
