With the new Olympic Park's construction in Stratford almost complete, a new project, Fantastic Factology, has recently launched to add a little sparkle to the area through the placement of crowd-sourced 'fantastic facts'.

The project was created by The Klassnick Corporation, Riitta Ikonan and We Made That and collected facts from the local community via postal and digital submissions and well as event workshops. At the Fact-Fest at Stratford Old Town Hall, for example, local schoolchildren and members of the community created interesting facts through hands on activities on the themes of, 'local industrial history, science and biodiversity.' The best ones have now been selected and placed on plaques situated across a series of benches around the Park.  These nuggets of knowledge range from science (The person you love is approximately 65% water) to novelty to local history (The Yardley’s soap factory near Carpenters Road (now the Olympic Park) closed in the 1960s. Thirty years later when it rained you could still smell the soap).

Fantastic Factology is just one venture which falls under the umbrella of The Fantasticology project, a series of interventions and community engagement events commissioned for the Olympics. Others include the 'Fantastic-Archaeology' wildflower meadows which act as a floral celebration of the industrial heritage of the site.

It's a great project which engages the local community and aims to excite, bewilder, inform and inspire. Check out all the facts here!