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Marilyn Lennon



PlOT:peoples land trust



PLoT: People's Land Trust is a social art project that brings together participants, collaborators and co-creators to engage in collective strategies and artistic methodologies to reimagine the future city. The project explores issues of urban land use and stewardship for the next 200 years that transcend individual needs whilst considering wider ethical questions around commoning practices.

The project engages with grass-roots community-led processes to reimagine urban places, resources and co-living. It takes into account the wider interconnected, critical concerns of ecology, population, climate, social relations, public policy, cultural practices, city infrastructure and interspecies inhabitation. PLoT, asks us to imagine what we might be able to share through collaboration, exchange and generosity, and what would happen if we produced communal knowledge, organised collectively and pooled resources.

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PLoT (People’s Land Trust) is a collaborative project initiated in 2020 by artists Marilyn Lennon, Colette Lewis and Elinor Rivers in Cork city, Ireland. We work through social art practice and are aligned through an interest in collaborative approaches to investigating complex interrelationships of space, place and people. Collectively we have backgrounds in contemporary art, ecology, activism, participatory design and education. We employ a range of artistic methods for alternative forms of cooperation and production such as performative actions, pedagogy, discussion and other forms of praxis including embodied processes, thinking through making, mapping, participatory games, planning and visualisation.







PLoT project’s recent activities include PLoT (Mobile) Commons, KinShip Project Residency, Tramore Valley Park, Cork (2024-25), terza terra Pistoletto / Cittadellarte a Villa Manin, Udine, Italy (2024), PLoT Radical Summer School, Cork (2021), UNIDEE Residency Groundwork for Embedded Arts Practice, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy (2021), TEST SITE, Thinking Community Land Trusts (2021) and Future, Land, Commons, Culture Night Cork (2020).


PLoT is a recipient of the Arts Participation Project Award, Arts Council of Ireland (2021), Artist in the Community Award, Research and Development Strand with Mentoring, Arts Council of Ireland managed by CREATE (2020) and Art in Context, Research and Development Award, Cork City Council (2020) and the Artist in the Community Award, Research and Development Strand, Arts Council of Ireland managed by CREATE (2018).





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