West London Social Resource Project. Public Monitor.

As in all Willats’ projects, The West London Social Resource Project aimed to extend both the concerns of art and the social territory in which it physically operates. It took place within four residential areas – Project Areas - in West London over 6 weeks. Each of the four areas represented different social groups.
After local publicity, Project Operators called on people in the four areas and introduced the project to them. Those who agreed to participate were given a copy of the West London Manual and the use of these booklets were explained to them. The Manual contained a series of pages of visual cues and objects selected from the four Project Areas alongside sheets which asked the participant to respond by describing the associations or connections they had with different objects, or with their wider environment. There were also Day Sheets which needed a more thoughtful response to questions which started with describing their home environment – ‘Draw / describe / make a plan of what is on your living room mantlepiece’ and then moved on to the way they saw issues within their wider social environment – ‘Draw / describe / make a plan of your ideal form of transport’.