The Hive was originally conceived as the centrepiece of the UK Pavilion at the 2015 Milan Expo and was the first UK Pavilion to be reused and brought back to Britain after an Expo to be sited in its permanent home at Kew Gardens.

As Part of Peabody’s long-term regeneration plans to realise Thamesmead’s potential and build 20,000 new homes, they are embedding culture into the heart of their plans from the beginning. Their cultural strategy ensures that they work with local communities to create culture as part of daily life, and partnerships with local and international partners has enabled them to raise the profile and ambition of Thamesmead and put it on the map.

In 2012 artist Rebecca Chesney was commissioned to make I’m blue, you’re yellow , two acres (8000m2) of meadow planted in Everton Park in Liverpool. One acre is made entirely of blue flowering species, the other acre is entirely of yellow flowering species.

Sensing the City undertook a series of site-specific studies of urban rhythms, atmospheres, textures, practices and patterns of behaviour in the city of Coventry. Through four micro-projects, it made use of the sensate, performing human body effectively as an in situ data-gathering sensor, proceeding to apply technologies of sound/oral recording, photography, dance, performance and film to process and document this fieldwork activity.