Hull
“Hull is my home, and what would any person want from their home? Safety, comfort and a sense of belonging.”
“I often ask myself do any of those really apply when there is a risk of flooding which could wipe out everything I have ever known in my home town?”
WeAreHere Hull
We are supporting local organisation Timebank Hull and artist Louis Dorton to amplify the thoughts, hopes and fears of the community of Hull about the impact of climate change.
WeAreHereHull have been ACTIVE! Community sessions, films, spoof documentaries and guerilla projections on public spaces and zines….it’s all happening and more is on the way! Check out some of their incredible work and keep an eye on this page and our socials to see what’s happening in #WeAreHereHull.
WeAreHereHull - Our Work
Over the last two years, WeAreHere Hull has transformed into a powerful vehicle for uniting local residents, grassroots movements, organisations, academics, practitioners and decision-makers to protect Hull from the growing presence of climate change impacts.
It has proactively sought and leveraged lived experience and expertise to create detailed maps representing community values and visions, specialist and scientific insight and rich social and environmental data, generating comprehensive policy recommendations for climate resilience throughout.
WeAreHere Hull’s story is one of the transformative potential of partnership. Its legacy is its groundbreaking work to inform climate change adaptation and mitigation plans which truly represent the breadth, diversity and number of people and organisations who are fighting for their city.
Projections of Hull’s hopes, fears and demands across the city
Watch this beautiful short film that captures some of the powerful and moving projections that WeAreHereHull have produced and displayed across Hull.
What is community planning? What do the people of Hull want? Watch this short film of WeAreHereHull figuring out the above with their community
“People need to be more aware of the threat... and the role they can play individually to find solutions”
Spoof Documentary
Finding it all a bit bleak and gloomy? Then laugh and learn with WeAreHereHull’s entertaining mockumentary on the flood risk facing Hull which puts the ‘real’ into ‘surreal’.
“Whether we like it or not, Hull could, at some point be underwater.
Flood? Underwater? I’ve just decorated. Someone has to do something. What about my bloody carpets!”
The People’s Design Code and the People’s Map
The People’s Design Code is an initiative by WeAreHereHull, a Rights Community Action project, through which we are inviting the people of Hull to build a code for the City Council to implement in decisions about land and also use it to affect the council's upcoming Local Plan.
The suggested ‘code’ was developed at a meeting at a by a local group of people involved in WeAreHereHull in the summer of 2024. It has also taken into account opinions and desires expressed by workshop participants over the last year and a half.
Want to add your voice? You can find out more and get involved here
The People's Map Hull is a work in progress.
The People's Map Hull aims to help the Hull put pressure on local and national government to consider and things the community think are important, and act upon them in collaboration with the people of Hull.
The hope is that the map will be especially useful while Hull's Local Plan is being reviewed and rewritten.
Use the map to:
identify priorities, needs and opportunities;
hold authorities accountable for key community priorities;
inform independent community-based initiatives (environmental, economic, social, cultural, etc).
You can interact with this map in various ways, by inputting information as points on the map, or lines or areas. You can also upload pictures and comments, whether its about housing, green spaces, community projects, health and poverty, flooding, etc.
This is being built by Rabble Cooperative from Belfast who built Take Back the City's map of Belfast and is in collaboration with Manchester University.
Looking for information about the Shorelines Project in Hull? You can find it here