RUBERY residents are being invited to light up their community in a unique creative experiment.

Birmingham Cathedral, in partnership with University College London, are asking people in Rubery and five other neighbourhoods to contribute to 'Something Good (Measure of Us)'.

The project takes place this week until Friday, December 2, inviting residents to answer questions in small electric voting boxes dotted in locations around the village.

Answers will form a spectacular illuminated artworks exhibition in Cathedral Square, aiming to celebrate common experiences and encourage opportunities to talk with neighbours.

Something Good Artistic Director, Orit Azaz, said: "It is an experiment to explore potential for a city-wide creative conversation using light-based artworks in surprising ways.

"It is a way of bringing people from different areas and backgrounds together and creating a sense of connection across different parts of the city.

"People will have a chance to express how they feel, and then see how others in their own neighbourhood, and others areas feel too.

"We hope they will also suggest new questions that they would like to ask their neighbours and people who live in other parts of Birmingham."

Gracie Mai’s Tea Room, Mica Kennedy’s Hardware, Robinson’s Opticians, St Chad’s Church – all on New Road – and the library on Library Way, will all display question boxes.

Questions will be broad in subject but simple to answer, such as ‘Have you laughed today?’.

People will be given three options to answer via the voting boxes by pressing one of a choice of three buttons – ‘yes agree’, ‘neutral’ and ‘no disagree’.

Each day’s findings will be displayed in the community as large eight-foot tall artworks by Redhawk Logistica, inspired by cricket scoreboards.

The results will be revealed by people shining a bright light, such as a torch or camera flash, onto their reflective surface, to activate the responses to the day’s question.

The new installation will light up Rubery first and then Cathedral Square on Saturday, December 3.

The Revd Claire Turner, priest at St Chad’s Rubery, said: "Rubery is a great place with a strong sense of community pride.

"But like many other parts of the country, people are aware that they don't know their neighbours as well as they used to.

"This project gives this community a great opportunity to get to know who we are and who our neighbours are."

Birmingham City Centre, Hall Green, Handsworth, Hodge Hill, and Sutton Coldfield will also take part in the project.

For more information visit somethinggoodbham.org.