Colchester Inn is a project about hosting and welcoming in Colchester.
Initiated by public works and commissioned by firstsite.

Over the next two years public works will be working with a variety of community and interest groups from Colchester and the surrounding areas to find out how they host others and collaboratively create a new communal meeting room for Colchester.

Each of the participating groups will be developing a new object that reflects their specific customs and ways of hosting. This new object can be anything from a welcoming chair, a new dish, an inviting scent or tune or a special fabric. The contributions from all groups will feed into the making of the "Colchester Inn" meeting space at firstsite.

This website documents the process of the project by recording the many different meetings that take place along the way. At the same time it indexes the customs and artifacts that support hosting as well as mapping the connections between the different participants and the spaces in which the project takes place.