This project explores how art and creative methods can help communities engage with their sense of place while generating insights to support inclusive, place-based decision-making in Morecambe Bay. We will investigate how people perceive and value urban and coastal environments using interdisciplinary methods of artist-led walks and design-led inquiry. We will deliver three walks, and post-walk conversations with artist Ellie Barrett, Art Gene and Morecambe Bay Partnership (MBP). Each walk will include residents, artists, researchers, and at least one policymaker to include a range of lived experiences. The walks will explore place through its challenges, delights, and everyday realities in the context of climate change. Participants will use sensory and creative methods e.g., photography, drawing, sound, and writing to capture their experiences which will inform gallery-based conversations prompting reflection on how place is valued, from statistical data to personal and collective meanings. The output will be a digital sketchbook, serving as an archive and resource. A workshop with MBP and Art Gene will explore how the data can inform future planning. The project will strengthen Art Gene’s socially engaged arts role, support MBP’s evidence gathering approaches, and contribute to Lancaster University’s (LU) research on community responses to environmental and climate change.