My Pool or Yours? Ownership and Design of Bathing Places

How would you design your ideal swim spot?

In July 2023, the Museum of Oxford ran a design workshop where participants were invited to imagine how Oxford's bathing places might look in the future.

Responding to questions such as 'who might own/manage the bathing places?', 'what would they be like to swim in?' and 'what infrastructure should there be?', participants  annotated plans of the existing Tumbling Bay, Long Bridges and Parson's Pleasure bathing places with their ideas for a future where the bathing spots are looked after.

Click on each of the images in the gallery below to see more photographs from the workshop.