Forgotten Spaces

Neglected land, development sites in limbo, vacant buildings, lonely car parks, empty windows: all things that your imagination can make better. Click to enter.

Forgotten Spaces is a creative project focused on our collective imagination for the city. We are trying to draw attention to the potential of the unloved and underused spaces of the city by highlighting citizen-led ideas for what they could become. We’ve received over 50 submissions of spaces in this first round, spread right across Belfast and ranging from the very familiar to some only known by a handful of people. Have a Forgotten Space and some ideas of your own to share? Tell us about it here or on socials using #ForgottenSpaces.

Please feel free to give each submission a *star* rating based on how interesting or innovative you think it is.

About the ‘Forgotten Spaces’ project

Forgotten Spaces is a creative project focused on our collective imagination for the city of Belfast. We are interested in derelict buildings, waste grounds, and development sites in that limbo state — not because we are trying to address the myriad of complexities about land ownership, access or regeneration, but rather because we are trying to draw attention to the vast number of neglected, unloved and underused spaces of the city which seem to get forgotten or ignored in top-level conversations.

City regeneration involves complex issues affecting multiple stakeholders but let’s use the term as in biology – an organism’s ability to heal, growing new tissues and cells to repair and replenish. At the moment many of these forgotten spaces sit like wounds in our neighbourhoods — wouldn’t it be cathartic if we, the people that live and work beside them, got to decide what their new purpose would be? We’re not promising that will be the outcome of this process but if there is enough interest and momentum then maybe it can help start the conversation and at least bring some fun and creativity to an often arduous and bureaucratic debate.

Meadhbh McIlgorm, Project Curator

Neglected land, development sites in limbo, vacant buildings, lonely car parks, empty windows: all things that your imagination can make better. Click to enter.

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