Profile

Britt's practice focuses on the democratisation of local development and public space. Originally trained as a theatre maker, she uses storytelling, listening and devising techniques to filter individual and collective narratives into performative encounters with the broader public. She facilitates situated actions and embodied processes that highlight and strengthen local voices and offer people a platform to negotiate their desires and manifest collective futures.

This aproach takes form in performances, publications or exhibitions, as well as in processes, places and full initiatives, like a citizen-led energy planning process, a community financed high street scheme or a cooperative launderette.

Britt worked as an independent actor, director, workshop leader and project co-ordinator as part of touring companies and on site-specific performance and community arts projects throughout Europe and the USA.

In the last 15 years she has developed her social practice to serve emerging social justice efforts and citizen-led initiatives. As a result Britt has acquired expertise in community-led planning and design methods and cooperative business governance and development.

In her neighbourhood in Anfield, Liverpool Britt co-founded Homebaked Community Land Trust, now an international flagship for community-led and owned regeneration.

She worked in a long-term collaboration with Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on durational socially engaged art projects in Germany and the UK. 

In a collaboration with energy cooperative Carbon Coop and Anthropologist Hannah Knox, she explores the use of creative methods in community-led energy planning and local ownership in the energy transition.