I agree and like the references to what’s going on in children’s museums in the States, but object to the fact that they refer to children’s museums as places which are just about fun. There’s lots of places with lots of learning going on through play.
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
The playground in Gloucester – progress
I have started a diary blog for the playground project in Gloucester. Click here to see what’s going on and to follow the blog. It will be thoughts and ideas as I go along about the collaborative design process with children and the school.
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
The New Museum Community
The New Museum Community published by Museumsetc examines in depth how museums globally are succeeding – in many different ways – in reaching and involving social groups traditionally overlooked or excluded from the museum experience. The New Museum Community: Audiences, Challenges, Benefits is an invaluable and inspiring guide for any museum, gallery or cultural organisation – large or small – intent on engaging with the broadest possible audience.
I have written two essays: Planning for Young Children and Families in Museums and Creating Exhibitions With and For Children.
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Playground go-ahead
Longlevens Infant School in Gloucester is re-designing their playground, with the children. Alison Cockroft and I will be working with them to create their own fantastic awe-inspiring playground.
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Potted Panto!
The teacher’s pack for Potted Panto is up on the website.
“Oh no it isn’t!”
Oh, yes it is!
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Experimenting with interactivity
David Parker from Figment Arts and I have been working with some boys from the Cedar Centre exploring identity and different ways of ‘putting ourselves in the picture’. This is the beginning of a longer project where we will produce an interactive and immersive artwork which can be enjoyed by the school and the community.
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Inspiring things
YoungHyun Chung – wheelchair art http://risknfun.com/project/digitalwheelart/
Osman Khan – Sur la Table http://www.osmankhan.com/surlatable/
Camille Utterback – Text Rain http://www.camilleutterback.com/textrain.html
Amanda Long – Silly Faces http://vimeo.com/10726507
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Association of Children’s Museum Conference
I’m off to the ACM conference in St Paul, Minnesota next week. Looking forward to little stop in NYC and visit to Funky Forest at Moomah and other lovely places.
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
So, what’s new?
Nearly finished the Extraordinary Measures booklet with Jay. All looking good!
And I have submitted my essays for New Museum Community to be published by museumsetc, out in April.
And this Wednesday sees me doing an online presentation with Heather Nielsen from Denver Art Museum on Planning for young children and families, again with museumsetc.
I went to a really interesting conference at the London Transport Museum, called “Getting Serious About the Early Years” – organised by the Renaissance London Learning Group
And still playing with and working with the idea of the beginning steps for a children’s museum in Mumbai….
Busy busy!
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
MuseumsEtc
I’m working on an article for a new publication due out in April from MuseumsEtc – “Making places playful: How to creatively involve young children and their families in the development of hands-on exhibitions” and an online seminar on 24th March called “Planning and Designing for Children and Families in Museums”
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Extraordinary Measures
Enjoying working on this. The artists are all really fantastic, the place is eerie, and we are going to do a fantastic booklet! See who is going to be exhibiting there: Ron Mueck, Slinkachu, Tessa Farmer, Mat Collishaw, Mariele Neudeker, Freddie Robins as well as MGA architects and Ciaron Treanor.
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Belsay Hall, Extraordinary Measures
I am really pleased that Jay and I will be working on developing an exhibition resource for a new exhibition at Belsay Hall. It’s a really exciting exhibition with artists Ron Mueck, Tessa Farmer, Slinkachu, Mat Collishaw, Mariele Neudecker and all about distortion, perception, BIG and small. Jay is from Limbic Fish http://www.limbicfish.net and designed this website with me, so I think we’re going to have lots of fun.
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Here is to a fabulous 2010! So, what’s coming up? I am working on how to go about setting up a children’s museum in India, finding work in Brighton, thinking about an upcoming acting course. All is good and looking exciting!
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Mumbai news
I had a really exciting trip to Mumbai! I met with Sophie Ahmed from the Teacher’s Educational Resource Centre in Mumbai. We talked about how we can make the resource centre more accessible to more people. I also met with Simran at BlueFROG who are interested in running a community programme. So lots to think about there in helping with getting that up and running. Oh and of course it was great to spend time with Rayna Jhaveri and talk about all our ideas for touring exhibitions, storytelling and much much MORE!
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Inspiration comes from funny places
Welcome to my new website. Please bear with me and Jay as we get it up and running and iron out anything funny! In the meantime, let me know your thoughts…
I am off to India on Monday 23rd November to follow up working with Blue FROG and INNOVAID as well as catching up with lots of other people. Back 9th December.