Growing Sudley Signage

The installation of interpretation boards and new site signage marks one of the one of the final phases of a transformative, long-term collaboration with Growing Sudley CIC, a social enterprise that provides health and wellbeing through nature. These elements complete a multi-year project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to sensitively restore and reimagine the Growing Sudley site, including its derelict changing rooms and neighbouring walled garden.

The signage tells the story of the site’s evolution, from its origins as an animal husbandry building on the Sudley House estate, to its conversion into sports changing rooms in the 1970s, and now the building and garden’s new use as a community hub for health, wellbeing, and learning in nature.  It shares findings from a community-led heritage project and documents the green transformation of the building, which includes natural materials like hempcrete insulation and lime render.

Interpretation signs made from salavaged benches

Photos of the existing changing rooms benches that were salavaged and the metal repainted to match the building’s windows

“Harrison Stringfellow did such an amazing job making the signs visual, simple and beautiful despite needing to get across a lot of information”

The displays reuse original changing room benches salvaged from the building before the renovation. Their steel frames were cleaned, repainted, and anchored in place with stone gabions, now supporting new panels that tell the story of the building and the growing therapeutic garden. These accessible interventions are designed to be read by building visitors and park walkers alike, inviting connection with the site's layered history.

Harrison Stringfellow designed all the graphic elements for the interpretation panels, including layout, typography, illustration and content structure. We worked closely with the Growing Sudley team and local researchers to distil complex historical narratives into accessible and engaging visual content that we hope will help explain some of the 12-year journey of Growing Sudley so far!

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