Event Concept's British Museum planters now screen a vegetable garden, divide a youth centre and dress a playground
Event Concept, a London and New York based creative event agency and production company, delivered parts of the recent Korea exhibition at the British Museum, and when it ended, its Sustainability team arranged for the planters that adorned the space to be collected directly from the agency's warehouse and go on to live a longer life.
Event Cycle delivered them to three organisations in south London. Each planter is a tall, freestanding unit on wheels that holds its panels in a slotted base with no fixings, so it can be moved and rearranged easily. That turned out to matter, because each recipient wanted something different from them.
A screen for the vegetable garden
Hurley Pre-School supports under-fives on a South London housing estate, where most families are on low incomes or benefits. Its vegetable garden sits within easy reach of young children at play, so four planters will act as a barrier, with climbing plants grown up to protect the vegetables. Others are going to be used to go against a concrete wall to brighten up the pre-school.
Quiet spaces for young people
UINCAP has worked with children, young people and families in Lambeth since 2004, and took the largest share of the planters, along with some additional decorative walling. At its Kennington Park Centre, the walls will be used as space dividers, which lets the centre increase its provision and create quiet break out spaces for young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
A better setting for hired events
Slade Gardens Community Play Association runs an acre of adventure playground for children and young people, and relies entirely on volunteers and donations to stay open. It took six planters, plus the scaffold poles and weights that came with the set, to make its premises more attractive and to improve the setting for events, which it hires out to help the charity become more self-sufficient. The next one is a comedy night in October!
Built to be reused
Three organisations took the same type of planter and gave them three different jobs, with no adaptation needed. The wheels and the slotted bases made them easy to collect, easy to move and easy to set up again.
For agencies, that comes down to decisions made at the design stage. A build that moves easily and comes apart without tools stays useful once the exhibition closes, and Event Concept's planters did exactly that.
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