Vision

Colour Your City envisions a world where colour is used consciously and imaginatively to enrich the built environment and elevate wellbeing.

We see colour as a key element of urban design and placemaking, which can be utilised to help harmonise space, foster creative cities, and connect citizens, space and community.

Colour Your City believes in dynamic, playful, interactive and intriguing urban space.

“I am endlessly inspired by the power of colour.

The intricate way it connects us to creativity and expression; to light, place, community, culture and ecology.
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— Cath Carver, Colour Your City Founder & Artist

Colour Your City is an arts and research practice dedicated to colour

Originally created in 2011, by artist Cath Carver, bringing together a lifelong love of colour and her experiences as a Londoner. Based in Enfield, North London; open to international projects.

Artist-led and interdisciplinary by nature.
Collaborative and experimental.

The practice focuses on:

Colour as a lens to explore city, place and culture.
Visual culture and colour communication, especially in the urban context.
The psychology of colour in the built environment, and its use as a tool of transformation through urban interventions and spatial design.
Synesthetic art and multi-sensory experiences.
Colour’s role in community-building, fostering social cohesion and harmony.
Colour education through creative placemaking and the arts.
Colour as a tool of creativity, connection and wellbeing.

Why cities?

With global populations increasingly concentrated in cities and urban areas, there is a real need to ensure that these urban environments are as conducive to life and well-being as possible. Cities are complex networks, 'multi-authored' habitats, in need of constant renewal and care. At regular intervals we need to re-evaluate how the built environment is serving the needs of its communities and enhancing vitality.

Why colour?

Colour impacts everything we do. It is a very powerful tool of language, expression, communication and connection. Everyone 'gets' colour on some level, making it an accessible and potent tool.

Colour's versatility in application and approach, also makes it an ideal vehicle for civic participation. This participative action can be used to support the long-term interests of human activity in an area. Through coming together to add colour – in a myriad of ways – we can spark and create new creative possibilities for the area, foster a sense of local pride, improve communication and social cohesion.