Deep End is an immersive sensory installation that invites exploration through touch, sight, and sound. The project explores the concept of accessible and adaptive ‘third spaces’. The term "third places," coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg, refers to spaces beyond home and work that are informal social environments. However, for many Disabled people, third spaces often default to medical environments like doctors’ waiting rooms and outpatient clinics. Public pools have long served as adaptive third spaces existing somewhere between the social and the medical. Building on this concept, ‘Deep End’ invites you to wade into a future where care, access, and inclusion are part of the design from the very beginning.

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Installation view, Bluecoat, Liverpool Biennial, 13th Edition BEDROCK, 2025. 

Photography:  Mark McNulty