What we do

Invisible Palace create accessible and welcoming activities where a broad range of people can come together through shared interests for collective activity.

We believe in a place where arts, heritage, and green activities are available, affordable, and accessible to everyone.

Heritage events and co-creative practice

Including walks, talks, visits, making sesisons, collborative reserach, production of learning resources.

Circus for local children and young people

Working in partnership with My Aerial Home and local providers to create affordable opportunities.

Gardening along the Anerley Hill edge of Crystal Palace Park

Sessions led by a professional gardener make learning and social connections for those who take part.

Principles for inclusive co-creative practice

Access ingrained and embedded

Attention to the details of people’s needs and where they are coming from, with access considerations built in at every stage and the starting point for all planning.

Consistent structures for capturing content

Establishing a framework to consistently capture and filter content which is led by what comes up from participants and feeds into how decisions are made on content and direction.

Equity and responsiveness

Listening and responding to where the group are at and adjusting activity in line with their needs and interests, giving flexibility to follow up on an idea, genuinely making time for difference and valuing ways of doing things and ensuring project activity is responsive, connective and audience led.

Pace

Making room for different paces within activities and leaving room for those who need more time to get an idea and build confidence.

Relatable subject matter

Focusing on visual, tangible stimulus and human subject matter which people can relate to, giving permission for people to open up emotionally and have personal reflections within the wider narratives being explored.

Valuing different knowledge and expertise

Valuing of different knowledge and expertise ranging from personal experience to academic knowledge, with no weighting of value in one particular direction in recognition that each type of knowledge enriches the project and one does not work without the other.

Socially engaged practitioners

Working alongside experienced practitioners with skills in socially engaged practice who are keen observers and able to adapt to people’s needs.

Core community partners

Building sustained relationships with a small network of community partners to enable reach and maintain contact with a breadth of local people who might not engage without the encouragement of the familiar organisation they already connect with.