Enlivening the Darwin Centre (The Natural History Museum)

I recently worked with The Natural History Museum to help them illustrate a number of potential improvements to the Darwin Centre. 

The proposal was to create a warm, welcoming and exciting space integrating a mixture of a cafe and a number of opportunities for engagement such as increased face-to-face learning with staff, things to touch and explore, performance and spaces for participation, reflection and dialogue.

Sense and the City

Sense and the City opens 1st July 2011

http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions

Sense & the City explores the powerful new forces that are shaping the way we live, work and travel in the city. GPS, pervasive wireless, sensing, near field communication, multi touch surfaces, open data, smart phones and a blizzard of new Apps are combining to redefine our urban relationships. Data visualisation is beginning to work with these digital riches to help us make deals, be sociable, navigate and network in powerful new ways. There is a wind of change in London - Sense & the City will harvest straws in that wind and test which of them have most significance for the future.

Centre for Life - Curiosity

Curiosity gallery look & feel concepts

London Transport Museum - Sense and the City

(Work in progress)

This exhibition is intended to open discussion and debate about the impact of technology on life in our city over the next decade. While up to now our view of the future has been envisaged as being led by new technologies for movement (airships, monorail, jetpacks etc), a fresh view of an immediate future based on integrated digital technologies, the unseen traffic of the city, is presented by Sense and the City.

The streets of London will look much the same in 2021 as they do today in terms of buildings, transport infrastructure and even vehicles but our ability to sense and connect to all it has to offer is about to be revolutionised by advances in communications technology and data integration. There is a wind of change approaching us fast from the future and Sense and the City will harvest straws in that wind and test which of them have most significance for our future.

Titanic Belfast

Titanic Belfast is a cornerstone of the Titanic Quarter masterplan. It will set the tone for the wider masterplan and for the City as a whole. Belfast is synonymous with the Titanic and the ship building glory of which it was a part. The challenge of Titanic Belfast is to create a truly integrated cultural destination that uses the status of the Titanic story

as the basis for the creation of a distinctive and unique destination.

Working for Event Communications, of the 9 galleries in the Titanic Belfast exhibition I have been working on galleries 7, 8 & 9

Gallery 7 - The Aftermath

Gallery 7 explores the impact of the loss of Titanic in the years immediately after 1912, focusing on three themes - the Titanic inquiries in America and Britain, along with the ‘blame game’ and subsequent changes in maritime legislation; Titanic’s sister ships, whose subsequent history reveals what might have happened to Titanic had she survived; and visitors return to Harland & Wolff, to find out how the shipyard coped with the sinking, and its impact on business.

Gallery 8 - Myths & Legends

Gallery 8 takes visitors into the realm of myth and legend that surrounds Titanic. As soon as she sank, the ship was mythologised, memorialised and fictionalised, and the real Titanic quickly became obscured.

In the mid-1980s, when Robert Ballard discovered the wreck, the real Titanic came back into focus once more.

Gallery 9 - The Immersive Theatre

Gallery 9 represents the culmination of the visitor experience. They have witnessed the city out of which Titanic grew, the building, fitting out and sinking of the ship and her tragic end. They have seen how the legend of the ship grew in the 70 years after the sinking and they now arrive at the discovery of the wreck on the sea bed. Whilst this really marks the end of Titanic’s story, her discovery has opened up myriad opportunities for the exploration of our seas and oceans.

The theatre experience is entered on level three and uses the full height and volume the space to platform the high definition (HD) footage that Robert Ballard has taken of the Titanic wreck. Not only is this material unique in its own right, but it offers a visitor experience that is second to none in terms of experience and impact.

Building Construction progress photographed by Donal McCann

NHM 18+ Sexual Nature Concepts

NHM Dino Touring Concept

Massar Childrens Museum - Damascus

Cardiff Castle

Massar Childrens Museum - Damascus

Massar - Regional Development Centre - Homs Damascus

Singleton Environment Centre

Isaac Newton Centre - Ladrooke Grove

Vision Works Material Science - Tower of London

Oxfam Generation Now