{"id":2900,"date":"2025-08-07T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:11:55","slug":"artists-sculpt-bland-castles-out-of-sand-for-heatherwicks-humanise-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/artists-sculpt-bland-castles-out-of-sand-for-heatherwicks-humanise-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists sculpt Bland Castles out of sand for Heatherwick’s Humanise campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As part of designer Thomas Heatherwick<\/a>‘s campaign Humanise<\/a>, a group of artists has created sandcastles “mimicking the flat, lifeless buildings all too common in our towns”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The one-day event, which took place yesterday in the UK seaside town of Morecambe Bay, saw sand<\/a> artist group Sand In Your Eye<\/a> create a three-metre-wide cityscape called Bland Castles.<\/p>\n

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The Humanise campaign invited a group of artists to design Bland Castles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The sculptures, which resemble tower blocks, were designed to be “deliberately bleak”, according to Heatherwick<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They were “mimicking the flat, lifeless buildings all too common in our towns and cities across the UK, forming a deliberately bleak installation”, the organisers said.<\/p>\n

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Dan McFadden of Sand In Your Eyes was among the artists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bland Castles forms part of Heatherwick’s Humanise campaign<\/a>, which aims to draw attention to “the growing ‘blandemic’ of uninspired, soulless buildings across the world”.<\/p>\n

It also invited the public to design and build their own sandcastles as part of the event, which were decorated with shells and flags for a “more joyful” effect.<\/p>\n