We care about how things get made, how people experience them and what it feels like to be part of them.
In Transit works with artists, organisations and communities to develop, curate and produce creative projects and programmes. We also provide cultural strategy, training and consultancy, working with others to explore different ways of working across the cultural sector.
We’re interested in how culture is made, who gets to shape it and what enables people to participate. Access, fairness and inclusion are at the heart of how we approach this work.
In Transit began in 2020 as an online platform exploring access through creative practice.
The idea grew from our founder Celina Loh’s experience of becoming deaf in her left ear at 13 and from living with lupus. Both changed how she experienced participation – noticing what could be missed when you experience the world differently and how online spaces could sometimes make creative work possible when physical spaces couldn’t.
These experiences led to a question:
what if access could be something we explore and learn through rather than something we simply provide?
Our first online residency brought artists in the UK and Southeast Asia together to share work, knowledge and ways of working. It became a space for exchange as much as making, and a way of testing what more accessible creative practice could look like.
Since then, In Transit has grown beyond the platform it began as. We now work across creative production, cultural strategy, training, research and programmes but the idea of learning through practice and with others remains at the centre of what we do.
We didn’t start out knowing exactly what In Transit would become. In some ways, we still don’t and that’s okay. We know what matters to us. The rest can develop through the work.
Creative work depends on people. It depends on relationships, time, resources, labour and care. For us, the final work is only part of the picture. We care about the conversations, decisions and conditions that make it possible — including the labour that isn’t always visible.
Fairness means thinking about how people are paid and supported, how their labour is valued, who gets to make decisions and how those decisions are made. It also means being honest about whether the resources available are enough, and what is sustainable for us.
Access is particularly important to us. Our work is informed by disabled experience and by thinking about how people participate, so we don’t see access as something separate from the creative work. Something can be technically accessible and still not feel welcoming or considered. We care about that difference.
For us, care is about how people are treated, how decisions are made, how much space people have to contribute and whether they feel they belong in the process. We’re not always going to get everything right. What matters is that we pay attention, listen and keep adapting our practice.
From an idea to something people can experience. We work with artists, organisations and partners to develop, curate and produce creative projects and programmes.
Sometimes the most useful thing is having someone alongside you to think things through. We work with organisations to shape ideas, programmes and ways of working, bringing a creative, access-led perspective and asking questions that might otherwise go unasked.
From an idea to something people can experience. We work with artists, organisations and partners to develop, curate and produce creative projects and programmes.
We develop residencies and programmes that give artists and cultural practitioners space to exchange ideas, experiment and learn together. We’re particularly interested in creating conditions where ways of working, thinking and participating can be valued.
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