Forest Mapping was a participatory workshop developed as part of the Forest of Imagination: The Living Tree at the Egg Theatre. Taking place inside the main theatre hall—transformed into an immersive indoor ancient woodland around a monumental spiralling timber structure—the workshop invited participants to bridge ideas from the exhibition into the everyday life of the city.

At the heart of the activity was a large, simplified map of Bath. Stripped back to the essential shapes of roads, buildings, and green spaces, the map became a shared surface for imagining alternative futures. Drawing on experiences from the installation, participants worked in groups to re-envision the city through ecological and imaginative lenses.

Over time, the map was populated with texts, drawings, and small-scale architectural models made from a limited, predominantly green material palette—modelling clay, stickers, pens, moss, sticks, and even gummy sweets as connectors. Ideas ranged from transforming council offices into a temple of nature, to inventing fantastical creatures that acted as portals to parallel worlds, and redesigning familiar parks as personal “forests of imagination” shaped by friendship, play, and care for the environment.

Forest Mapping became an evolving collective artwork, capturing how shared creativity can reframe urban space as something living, adaptable, and full of possibility.