Art,
community,
natureculture.
1013hPa
↑ 5mph
Rain
UV0.3
91%
☂ 16ºc
× 51°44'10.3"N 1°13'17.8"W
08:01 15:51
About this website
The current design of this website is determined by an algorithm. It uses live weather and astronomy data from our location in Oxford, UK to create a unique & unrepeatable composition.
Wind
The wind speed is 5mph, so the typography is a little bit distorted.
Time
It's 04:39 – this determines the primary colour and the position of the gradient, and because it's daylight the colour is light rather than dark. Today's date, the 6th of December 2024 causes the contrast to shift and the gradient is rotated too. The gradient is also affected by sunrise at 08:01 and sunset at 15:51.
UV
The UV index is 0.3 so the colours are not very saturated.
Weather
The condition is Rain so the composition is very blurry, the gradient is darker and less saturated. There's a 75% cloud layer to match the sky.
Credits
This website was designed by Jake Dow-Smith Studio.

Our projects

Fig aims to open up creative spaces where art, people, and plants meet, and engage imaginatively with the key ecological issues of our time.

Initial projects will work between a studio, equipped with printmaking equipment, in Makespace Central, a collaborative co-working social enterprise project in the heart of Oxford, and two 100 m2plots on the unique Elder Stubbs Allotment site in East Oxford, which includes a wildflower meadow, woodland, orchard, community gardens, and 100+ individual plots.

More about us
Project The Waiting List A project by JC Niala, Julia Utreras and Sam Skinner, produced in collaboration with Greenpeace.
Project Lumigraph Tinctoria Patrick Mannion & Rosie McLean Lumigraph Tinctoria is a collaborative dye garden project by creative practitioners Patrick Mannion and Rosie McLean exploring themes of sustainability, praxis and connection through collaborative growing, photosensitivity and textiles.
Project Greenspace & Us A picnic bench and shelter designed by Greenspace & Us, a local young women’s community group, in collaboration with RESOLVE Collective, as part of a project exploring how to create more inclusive greenspaces.
Nor Greenhalgh, Elder Palette, 2021
Project Elder Vernacular Nor Greenhalgh Elder Vernacular is a research project compiling an artist's palette of materials grounded in the East Oxford landscape.
Left: Spanish Flu poster c. 1918. University of Calgary Archives and Special Collections. Right. UK schoolboys at work on an allotment allocated for wartime vegetable production on school playing fields. Horace Nicholls (1918). Imperial War Museum Q30855.
Project 1918 Allotment JC Niala Between spring and autumn of 2021 JC Niala will recreate a 1918 style allotment on one of Fig’s plots on the Elder Stubbs Allotments, using open-pollinated non-hybrid seeds of ‘heirloom’ plant varieties.