Architecture collective Assemble is among 25 artists that have designed public installations for the Creative Folkestone Triennial, alongside artist Rana Begum and designer Morag Myerscough.
Now in its fifth year, the event has seen public spaces across Folkestone filled with 27 artworks ranging from a giant lantern on top of the town's mosque to kaleidoscopic beach huts and sculptures designed to be skated on.
The Folkestone Triennial includes installations by Assemble (top image) and Rana Begum (above)
The triennial's installations seek to engage directly with the Folkestone community in order to give them a sense of ownership over the artworks, a number of which will remain in place even after the event comes to a close on 2 November 2021. Among them are a series of nine "skatable sculptures", created by Assemble in collaboration with local skaters, that are strewn across a section of the town's restored Harbour Arm promenade.
They were made from local materials including raw Kentish ragstone found on the beach and steel sourced from a fabricator in nearby Ashford.
Assemble designed the sculptures with local skaters
"Our main starting point was this idea that skateboarding is about appropriating found or existing aspects of the public realm and adapting them through resourceful, low-tech, DIY means," Assemble co-founder Jane Hall told Dezeen.
"Skaters will appropriate anything for skateboarding but are also unbelievably particular, within a coupl...