Wasted Spaces wants to hear from sponsors interested in funding a project, donating a space or both. Spaces can be either indoors or outdoors, and vary in scale. To commission a project, please contact the team at info[at]wastedspaces.org

Through its London and New York offices Wasted Spaces is focused on ensuring that both the sponsor and artist gain maximum value for their undertakings; the Wasted Spaces team not only manage the installation, but also takes full responsibility for the entire project.

Wasted Spaces works collaboratively with its sponsors. The team is focused on ensuring that each project is evaluated and well documented, using specific methods to capture its impact including:

• Interviews with the public pre, post and during the installation
• Interviews with the artists to understand how they feel about participating in the projectWasted Spaces Reaction Count, a count of people who react to the installations versus the total number of people who passed it by
• Survey of the organisations and businesses neighbouring the installations to understand the impact on their daily lives
• Web analytics to monitor web site traffic

Documentation of the project is achieved through capturing video, audio and photographic content. This provides relevant content for the Wasted Spaces site and sponsors. It also enables the public to interact with the installations beyond the show’s completion, and make it accessible to a wider audience.

Wasted Spaces will create a marketing and PR campaign tapping into several different networks, to promote and raise awareness of the project. The team is no stranger to small budgets and works in a scrupulous manner to ensure artists are provided with maximum funding to create an installation.

The benefits of Wasted Spaces project are many and varied:

• Allows an artist to exhibit in their local area, increasing the community’s sense of ownership of the art
• Exhibits high quality art to new audiences in neglected communities
• Renews interest in empty spaces and brings visitors to forgotten areas
• Abandoned buildings are less susceptible to vandalism, graffiti and squatters
• Demonstrates a property’s commercial potential to future tenants
• A community and neighbouring shops benefit from the disappearance of dilapidated commercial space
• Organisations can build a relationship with the local community, followers of Wasted Spaces and participating artists. As a branding exercise, this is unique and substantial method of building a bond with several communities
• Relationships created between sponsor and audience exist beyond a project’s life, through exposure on the Wasted Spaces site and post-project PR efforts
• Wasted Spaces gives sponsors a concrete investment in a community