RAMM About Town

RAMM About Town was a pilot project for Creative Arc, a strategic collaboration between the University of Exeter, Exeter City Council and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum which aims to explore challenges and issues across the city through cultural interventions.

AWE was commissioned by RAMM to explore the re-imagining of Exeter’s High Street through a series of creative activities and discussion events. The team worked with LEGO® to engage people in conversations and to build proposals for future structures and activities that they’d like to see happening in the city.

Over four weeks in June 2022, groups explored these weekly themes: A Historical High Street, An Inclusive City, A Healthy City, A post-internet High Street, plus specific subject days looking at Accessible High Streets, Sustainable transport/ Active Travel, Queering the High Street, The Devon Doughnut, Climate Emergency, and A Just High Street.

Over the course of the month, more than 1,300 people took part in LEGO sessions, attended the discussion events or volunteered to support the project. The material gathered from this project will feed into City Planning initiatives.