1st edition
Workshop – Building new knowledge from multiple perspectives. Generating 360 degree interpretation involving communities in telling their stories and sharing their knowledge.
The community that surrounds Seaton Delaval Hall already shares their stories, so the first step is to capture them, which can be achieve through oral history recordings and other story sharing sessions. But capturing is completely pointless if we do not have a good plan of where we are going to put it and what we are going to do with it. These two questions need to influence each other, there needs to be something that bridges them.
Items
- Cassette
- CD
- SD card
- QR code
- Transcript
- Hardrive
- Photographs
- Postcard
- Diary entry
- (Artifact) – delicate object
- Newspaper
Possible idea: Make a table with two columns: Where are we going to put it and where are we going to put it. + no man’s land
Ghost
- Box
- Sketchbook
- Folder + forms
- Quilt?
Possible idea: Start with the idea of a no man’s land the space between the museum and the archive.
Possible idea: Create the rules of no man’s land
Topics
- Banquets
- Flower festivals
- Fundraising
- Curtain Rises Project
- Tearooms
- Surrounding area
2nd edition
Workshop – Building new knowledge from multiple perspectives. Generating 360 degree interpretation involving communities in telling their stories and sharing their knowledge.
This workshop will hopefully allow the participants to make the concept of a “360 degree” history of the hall more tangible and practical, through various hands on fast paced activities.
Activity One – Word association
Task: Do word association with the term “360 degrees”
Aim: Get the participants to break down the idea concept of “360 degrees” into more tangible ideas and warm up their creative thinking.
Activity Two – A 360 space
Task: The group is split into there groups. Each group a assigned a “space” where they have to create their “360 degree” history. The three spaces are a room, a box, and a booklet. The group then comes back together and presents the three spaces to each other.
Aim: To get the participants to physically create the idea of a “360 degree” history of the hall in a restricted space.
Activity Three – The fourth dimension
Task: The full group of participants are given newspaper headlines from the future. The participants then have to think how the events in the newspaper affect their space.
Aim: To get the participants to think about how they need to future proof their spaces within the “360 degree” history.
Activity Four – Reflection and conclusion
Task: Allow the group to reflect on their work.
Aim: To bring the workshop to a conclusion and have the participants articulate their workshop journey.