Community Project

Collaborating with the Past: Native American Portraiture by Shane Balkowitsch

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Whilst in Oxford University’s quite mind-boggling and amazing Pitt Rivers museum/collection recently I stumbled across something that I could easily digest; a series of beautiful monochrome portraits by the American […]

Last Generation of Coalminers….Evaluation…..What they said…….

in 3D, 3D portrait, Amgueddfa Cymru, Community Project, Last Generation of Coalminers, National Lottery Heritage Fund, National Museuem Wales, Rhondda Heritage Park

We’ve been digging through pages (and pages) of evaluation records and data as we complete “The Last Generation of Coalminers” project. (AKA “Last Voices of the Rhondda” / “Kings of […]

Oral History in Rhondda Cynon Taf

in Community Project, Community Workshop, Exhibition, Miners, Oral History, Outreach, Recording Oral History, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Rhondda Heritage Park

Great to be back amongst the communities of the Rhondda where we are working with Rhondda Heritage Park / RCT along with various welfare halls and other community centres to […]

Kings of The Underground – Exhibition Official Opening 07th November

in 3-d, 3-d portrait, 3D portrait, Community Project, Exhibition, Heritage Lottery Fund, museum, Oral History, Photogrammetry, Recording Oral History

We are getting very excited………….. An exhibition of three-dimensional (3D) portraits and voice recordings of Welsh Miners called “Kings of the Underground” opens at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, Wales […]

Fossil Room – User Testing

in Carboniferous, Community Project, Education, Educators in VR, Exhibition, fossil, fossils, Oculus, Outreach, Rhondda Heritage Park, UK Geology Project, Virtual Collection, Virtual Reality, VR, VR for education, Welsh Government, workshop

We undertook user testing (UT) with the Fossil Room virtual reality experience that was introduced at the open day at Rhondda Heritage Park. Most participants were children, with a few […]

More Oral Histories from the Afan Valley

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We spent the day talking to locals and capturing 3D portraits at Glyncorrygw. Glyncorrygw is a lovely isolated village at the end of the Afan Valley and surely one of […]

Recording Oral Histories

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Recording Oral Histories of Rhondda Miners

Heath Park Project Makes Welsh and UK National Media

in 15-Minute Heritage, CADW, Community Interest Company, Community Project, Exhibition, Heath Park, Heritage Lottery Fund

Heath Park – A Park for Our Time managed to make a splash in the Welsh national media and also in the UK National Media. The Guardian featured the prohject […]

“15 Minute Heritage : Heath Park – A Park for Our Time”

in 15-Minute Heritage, Community Interest Company, Community Project, Exhibition, Film, Heath Park, Heritage Lottery Fund, Photo

We have been working on “15 Minute Heritage : Heath Park – A Park for Our Time” community Film project since Nov 2021. We had to stop everything in Dec […]