Ways of Working emerged in the year of 2020 - amidst a global health crisis, existing and growing inequality, increased austerity and climate chaos. Established around a kitchen table after homeschooling had finished, it was set up in dialogue with friends, comrades and communities. Through the formation of a company, Ways of Working will bring the agendas of social, environmental, racial and community justice into projects which involve everyday infrastructure. These processes might start by thinking about how our streets look, how we can protect our green civic spaces and how our galleries and museums work with communities.

Our work as a company is based on collaboration, friendship and working towards deconstructing economic and social marginalisation. We have identified a series of keywords with which we will attempt to articulate this. Through arts and culture, Ways of Working aims to support communities and build long term relationships that explore place and need.

Ways of Working is committed to anti-racist work and understands this means advocating for and working towards real-world change. This is ongoing and material work, consisting of learning, being and doing, which we are committed to building into our practice.

We want to:

• Replace short term, neoliberal methodologies in arts and culture, and design new ways of working which are long term, sustainable, and support economic and ecological futures

• Make useful, poetic, empowering works of public and community art together, that allow people to reconnect with land, environment and food systems

• Explore the historical and future narratives of land - actively working to decolonise and address connections to empire, capital, ecology, oppression, labour, industry, and the environment on local and global levels

Ways of Working is a social enterprise and not-for-profit company limited by guarantee established in 2020 by artist Owen Griffiths.