New work: Plants not Pollution

We’ve been super busy this year at Fieldwork Facility… and we are just starting to see a flurry of projects go live. Here’s the first look at a project for Hammersmith & Fulham Borough Council who asked us to paint the Hammersmith Flyover in support of a project that has improved the space and the air quality under the flyover.

Planters have been introduced by Merristem Design along with an Ivy barricade that reduces the impact of harmful emissions entering the pedestrian space.

For our contribution we asked; how might we celebrate plants and their positive impact on place and pollution? Our approach was to green the brutalist bridge and our designs took inspiration from Hammersmith’s notable past residents William Morris and typographer Edward Johnston (designer of the eponymous typeface for TfL).

Peter Berber expertly painted the murals with a crew of four other painters for five days (they would appreciate not painting any more leaves again in the near future).

The project has been really well received, during the install one chap walked up to and simply said ‘thankyou’ and carried on strolling. An odd encounter but one that reminds me that designing in the public realm is special.

A little unintentional on our part but #PlantsNotPollution is showing initial signs of having a life of its own on instagram and even inspiring this poem!

And perhaps the best bit for us? well clearly we want to work more and more in the public realm and its a real pleasure to be invited to paint another section of the flyover with a different concept. Watch this rather large concrete space.