23.04.26
Each year our Amps network comes together for our Forum, where we also host our annual Community Ideas Fund. Designed to enable an exciting collaboration between supporters of our network, Amps are encouraged to collaborate on and pitch a new idea that will result in a positive social impact in Dundee. The award exists thanks to our growing community; not only do the network vote at the Forum on which project receives the fund, but the award itself is funded by Amps subscriptions. It’s amazing to see this support stretch beyond our network through each project’s wider impact in the city.
This year, the network awarded the fund to a project that seeks to bring the city together to reimagine Dundee through a clay-fest of collaborative world-building. In this blog, Ele and Claire share more about what they hope to achieve.
We believe it is vital to our collective well-being to create accessible playful spaces in our city, providing opportunities for people to connect, create, and have fun – so we’re inviting everyone to take part in a free weekend of collectively creating a shared clay world!
Let’s Clay Together! is an interactive sculptural installation where Dundee folk can drop-in and discover a landscape of clay and organic materials, which they are invited to shape, add to or take away from as the communally shaped scene evolves over the weekend. With participants offered a ball of clay and creative prompt, they’ll be encouraged to interact with Let’s Clay Together! in a variety of ways, from sculpting new additions for the scene, doodling drawings into a clay topography, or telling stories about the things they find there to add to a visitor’s board for others to see.
Ahead of the event, we will invite the Amps community on a short series of nature walks to collect natural materials such as twigs, leaves, shells and pebbles that will be used alongside clay in the public installation. Working with materials found across Dundee helps embed the project in the city and its landscape.
After the event, the collaborative clay landscape will be scanned with photogrammetry (a way of creating a 3D model that can be explored digitally) so that it can be shared online, to see how the installation evolved over the weekend. We’ll also distribute the reclaimed clay to community projects, sharing our resources from this project further across Dundee.
We love providing spaces for diverse cohorts of people to play and connect together! Our project is driven by play, collaboration, accessibility and sustainability, creating an opportunity designed with both the Amps community and the wider public of Dundee in mind. Clay is a very intuitive material to use, with no experience required in order to begin creating. We’ll be looking to use an accessible and free-to-enter space, such as a library, that is visited by people from a variety of backgrounds in Dundee.
We hope that the impact of this activity will be to create a free, playful event that helps to connect people to each other and to the city by taking part in a place-based collaborative artwork. Let’s Clay Together!
We’ll share ways to get involved with Let’s Clay Together! over the coming months!
Ele Roscoe (they/them) is a maker and community artist, creating playful ceramic sculpture and jewellery, as well as illustrated self-published zines. As a community artist, they devise & host workshops supporting Dundee folks’ wellbeing & mental health through exploring individual expression in creative, playful ways. Ele is Tutor & Senior Technician at Dundee Ceramics Workshop, and supports creative projects at Dundee International Women’s Centre. Check their creative diary on Instagram.
Claire Morwood (she/her) is a self-taught game designer, programmer, artist and musician. She is also a member of Biome Collective in Dundee. In 2025 she released Asterism, an interactive music album video game set in space, which was developed with funding from Creative Scotland. She also worked on BAFTA-nominated Before I Forget with her company 3-Fold Games, a narrative exploration about a woman living with early-onset dementia. Claire is interested in games as a medium for creative personal expression, as well as accessible ways to play and design games. She has run many workshops and events around game-making and play, and creating experiences that encourage participation and collaboration.
This new collaboration was made possible through our Amps network’s Community Ideas Fund. Everyone in the network can choose which project they’d like to award the fund to at our annual Amps Forum – find out about the other amazing projects that pitched this year. This cash award is funded by Amps subscriptions each year – join Amps and help us make the fund bigger and better!
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