National Museums of Liverpool
Project
Sankofa Docks: A Pop-Up Vision for Liverpool’s Maritime Waterfront Contest
Client
National Museum’s of Liverpool
Creative Commissions
Capoeria For All, merging Producer Josh Ramsden
Full Team
BIG I Bjarke Ingels Group, Beyond The Box, and JA Projects. Peter Adjaye, Poor Collective, Futurecity, LDA Design, AKT II, Hilson Moran, Gardiner & Theobald and the CAVA Institute
Date
June 2021 - July 2021
Location
London
Working with a multi-disciplinary design team, including BIG, JA Projects, Poor Collective and Hilson Moran, we delivered Sankofa Docks, a pop-up installation that demonstrated our approach to the transformation of Liverpool’s waterfront.
The Sankofa Docks (a temporary structure) was conceived and delivered as part of the National Museums of Liverpool’s (NML) Waterfront Transformation competition, which was tasked with finding a diverse design team to redesign the public realm that borders the Museum of Liverpool, the Merseyside Maritime Museum and the International Slavery Museum.
For Stage 2 of the competition, the shortlisted teams were asked to explore how they would link storytelling, heritage, community, connectivity, and commercial income to create a cohesive visitor experience and catalyst for social and environmental improvements in the area, whilst working through a process of co-design.
Beyond the Box delivered a series of engagement workshops to ensure the temporary structure was designed and activated in partnership with local communities from across Liverpool, including a collaboration and commission with Capoeira For All, who brought their networks together to amplify the voices of the local community and who delivered a special performance at the Sankofa Docks installation. We commissioned a local emerging producer Josh Ramsden, who worked with Peter Adjaye to create a soundscape at the installation which captured and played the voices of Liverpool’s Black community through speakers and a special collaboration with Scouse Flower House.
