Baggot Estate Participation Project
urban tree project & the hunt museum

​Introduction

The outline of the project is to develop the creative potential of Baggot Estate through the Baggot Estate Participation Project (BEPP). This is an artist-led Social Sculpture project foregrounding community narratives in crafting a vision for the Estate as a venue for creative exchange and exploration. It includes artist-led interventions, workshops, a publication, an international conference on Social Sculpture and the commission of a public artwork for the Estate reflecting a collective vision. The objective is to foster ongoing community creativity and engagement through The Hunt Museum with Limerick’s public spaces. 
We envision the project, in the long term to move forward the notion of social sculpture concepts and strategies embedded in the work of Joseph Beuys and his 7000 Oak Project. We also acknowledge other projects both local and international, which maintain a commitment to the ecological sustainability of the space we occupy. Working within and expanding upon this existing narrative, Urban Tree Project can develop these concepts and provide the oxygen of publicity that will aim to foster dialogue for the future restoration of our collective space.
Through the platform of the Hunt Museum and its resources, and with the participation of interested stakeholders, the Baggot Estate/Tempered Landscape Project can move forward towards a pedagogical and creative engagement with communities of interest in Limerick.

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The Hunt Museum: Baggot Estate Participation Project

The project complements the Museum’s objectives in moving beyond the walls of the building and the confines of the display cabinet and echoes the Hunt family’s historic engagement with the archaeology and history of Limerick and the regional landscape.  Through lectures and educational programmes it will link the landscape with the Museum, remind the visitor to the Museum that objects on display derive from a landscape setting, and contribute to the production of a socially engaged project. At the interface between the city and county the project mirrors the Museum’s role at the interface between the past and the present​.​​​​

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