We’re looking for a Web Developer and an Assistant Interpretive Project Manager. Web Developer (immediate start): We’re developing ever more exciting and effective online experiences for our clients across the heritage and cultural tourism sectors and we’re looking for someone to help us extend and deliver our digital offer. If this sounds like you then [...]
We’re starting to get to grips with the massive potential of augmented reality in our work. Our Chester Portico project is involving an appraisal of a couple of AR applications, which we have been discussing with specialist suppliers. The potential of AR is extremely interesting, although a barrier exists in the need to pay a substantial annual [...]
Not a headline one expects to see in these challenging times with funding pots being shrunk or ‘diverted’ towards other causes other than the heritage sector. But is it all doom and gloom for interpretation? Not necessarily: for the creative interpreter there’s a fantastic array of media available today, and much of it at a [...]
Hi David here, and I’m very excited about the news we can now share of our sucess in tendering for the Portico Project in Chester. Portico is an EU funded programme linking the cities of Chester, Utrecht, Ghent and Cologne to demonstrate the use of heritage for economic development. Our remit is to plan and implement a [...]
We had a really positive response to the publication of last week’s ‘Developing Social Media’ White Paper so thought it would be good to launch it’s ‘twin’ this week. ‘Exploring New Technology’ examines many of the exciting new technologies that are emerging in the heritage interpretation sector and attempts to briefly appraise their effectiveness as [...]
Following on from our earlier post about ‘apps’, smartphones and their (quite astounding) potential as interpretive tools, I thought this would be a good time to blog about ‘augmented reality’ – what I hear you say?!! Well, it’s something we’ve been getting a little steamed up about here at The School for the past few [...]
