Brief
Community Land Scotland wanted illustrations for their Owning Our Future report which was to be launched at a Scottish Parliamentary event. The report brought together research and insights from the Owning Our Future project, where at the end of 2020, creative practitioners worked in five communities across Scotland. They employed different creative techniques to discover why the community ownership model was so important in how communities responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and how they will build forward better.
Community Land Scotland wanted illustrations for their Owning Our Future report which was to be launched at a Scottish Parliamentary event. The report brought together research and insights from the Owning Our Future project, where at the end of 2020, creative practitioners worked in five communities across Scotland. They employed different creative techniques to discover why the community ownership model was so important in how communities responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and how they will build forward better.
The illustration for the front cover had to reflect the discussions that took place about the future. Some of the key themes from the project to draw inspiration from were: creativity, imagination, the future, community wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, the need for more community ownership and community wealthbuilding (resources being created by the community being used for the benefit of the community).
The chosen concept was of a child looking out of their window — an activity taken up by many during lockdown — at the future. Smaller parts of the front cover scene were extracted and used for the inside pages of the report.
The report can be viewd in full here.
