In the last blog Phil was getting excited about the rocks of Anglesey. Our interest in rocks is hotting up even more now thanks to our collaboration with Beijing Normal University to deliver a Chinese conference on earth science interpretation. Colleagues David Revell and Graham Barrow will be speaking at the third International Forum on [...]

A couple of interesting industry conferences coming up in the new year: ‘Digital Past 2010: New technologies in heritage, interpretation & outreach’ 16th – 17th February 2010 @ St Fagans: National History Museum, Cardiff. Explores latest technical survey and digitial interpretation techniques and their practical application within the heritage industry. Hosted by The Royal Commission [...]

I have recently returned from a fascinating ‘Portico’ project meeting in Utrecht at the invitation of Cheshire West and Chester. Portico is an EU funded scheme to pilot and promote economic development in historic cities. Chester, the UK partner, have invited Imagemakers to participate as their interpretation advisers – the result being a short trip [...]

The afternoon of the Museum Association’s ‘Go Digital’ conference brought further interesting speakers and subsequent food for thought. Sarah Angliss (complete with scary talking doll), a musician and robotics engineer, spoke passionately about the need to consider the interpretive potential of physical, as well as artificial, computing. This included an outline of the various options [...]

I was fortunate enough to attend the Museum Association’s ‘Go Digital: New trends in electronic media’ conference in London-town this week. It proved to be an interesting and worthwhile professional forum, reinforcing the central role that digital technology has to play within our interpretive schemes and exhibitions, speculating as to its broad potential and providing [...]