Heritage interpretation in the wild

I regularly apply different media in my professional practice to enhance, complement or otherwise facilitate novel interactions that could not be generated in the absence of these media. In recent years, much of my practice has begun to gravitate around hands-on…

#CurateMyLife

Curation.

Once almost exclusively the realm of experts within a museum or gallery setting, over that last few years the concept of curating has become a social media trend. In 2016, almost anyone can become a content curator, by digitally curating a playlist, their twitter feed…

Small Museum, Big Impact?

Two kings, two gates, one city: when is a museum not a museum but an experience?

On a frost-bright afternoon, with snowdrops glowing and nodding in the icy-breeze, a group of hardy postgrad students from York’s Department of Archaeology found ourselves clambering up Bootham…

Hacking the Gallery!

How to Get Teenagers into Art

Teenagers in art galleries, possibly not an obvious combination, but as galleries and museums aim to diversify their audiences (and income streams), teen-focussed initiatives are becoming common. The Tate has a whole…

Debates in app-cessibility

Is the use of mobile apps in heritage contexts enhancing or impeding?

A group of Masters degree colleagues, undertaking the Cultural Heritage Management module, had the opportunity to visit Newcastle’s Tyne and…

Park Hill: Past and Present

Park Hill with its infamous ‘Streets in the Sky’ has been undergoing a transformation. The collapse of the Sheffield steel industry in the 1980s, increased unemployment and subsequent state of decline across the estate, initiated a five phased redevelopment which has been ongoing…

A Digital Afterlife for Destroyed Heritage

Project Mosul, as its name suggests, emerged as a digital extension of the Mosul Museum in Iraq, in part as a response to the permanent damage done to the museum and its artefacts in February 2015 by ISIS members. Project Mosul involves the ever increasing use of digital technology…

Lowry’s York: Your York

York is a honeypot of highly valuable heritage sites. As a major tourist attraction in the UK, York’s historical legacy often finds itself jumbled into musty institutions, and subjected to entrance fees and limited opening hours. Our project aims to open up one of York’s most iconic…