Community Workshop – VisionFountain

Community Workshop

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 […]

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Kings of the Underground – Project Details

in 3D, Amgueddfa Cymru, Big Pit, Community Workshop, Digital Installation, Education, Heritage Lottery Fund, museum, National Lottery Heritage Fund, National Museuem Wales, Oral History, Photogrammetry, Rhondda Heritage Park, South Wales Miners Museum, VR, workshop

Kings of The Underground by Vision Fountain An exhibition of three-dimensional (3D) portraits of Welsh Miners called “Kings of the Underground” opens at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, Wales 07th […]

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The Festival of Archeology – Virtual Fossil Room

in 3-d Render, 3D, Carboniferous, Community Workshop, Educators in VR, Exhibition, fossil, fossils, Miners, museum, Outreach, paleontology, Participation and Interpretation Officer, Photogrammetry, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Rhondda Heritage Park, UK Geology Project, Virtual, Virtual Reality, VR, Welsh Government

Vision Fountain were invited to introduce and user test a new virtual reality experince; “The Fossil Room” (beta) we are creating in collaboration with Rhondda Heritage Park . The experience […]

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More Oral Histories from the Afan Valley

in 3-d, 3-d portrait, 3D, 3D portrait, Afan Valley, Community Project, Community Workshop, Heritage Lottery Fund, interviews, National Museuem Wales, Oral History, Recording Oral History

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 […]

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Rhondda Digi-Fest 22

in Community Interest Company, Community Workshop, Digi-Fest, DigiFest22, Education, Educators in VR, Recording Oral History, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Rhondda Heritage Park, Virtual Reality, VR, VR for education

Rhondda Digi-Fest22 enabled our team to demonstrate story-telling in a virtual reality environment with a host of primary schools, high schools and youth groups in the Rhondda Valley. Around a […]

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RHONDDA DIGI FEST22

in 3D, Audio Visual Education, Community Workshop, Creative Opportunity, Digi-Fest, DigiFest22, Exhibition, Heritage Lottery Fund, Photogrammetry, Rhondda Heritage Park, School, Virtual Reality, VR, VR for education

Vision Fountain are very pleased to be taking part in Rhondda Digi-Fest22. Vision Fountain / Rhondda Heritage Park will bring along 10 x Oculus Quest 2 Virtual Reality headsets and […]

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Exhibition Opening; “Last Voices of The Rhondda”

in 3-d portrait, 3-d Render, 3D, Audio Visual Education, Community Workshop, Education, Exhibition, Gallery, Heritage Lottery Fund, Last Voices of the Rhondda, Photogrammetry, Rhondda Heritage Park, School, Uncategorised

Last Voices of the Rhondda opened at Rhondda Heritage Park 22nd Feb 2022. We were able to invite most of the miners and other members of the community who took […]

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3D Portraiture & Photogrammetry

in 3D, 3D portrait, Big Pit, Community Workshop, Heritage Lottery Fund, Last Voices of the Rhondda, Photogrammetry, Rhondda Heritage Park

An important part of the over-all project is to ensure that as wide a range of people as possible are engaged with their community’s heritage. To enable and heighten engagement […]

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Heritage Workshops

in coal, Community Workshop, Education, Heritage Lottry Fund, Last Voices of the Rhondda, Miners, Outreach, Rhondda Heritage Park, School

An intergral part of the project, in addition to capturing the oral history and 3D portraits, is the the outreach with schools and youth groups. We worked with outreach officers […]

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3D Portraits of Miners

in 3D, coal, Community Workshop, Exhibition, Heritage Lottery Fund, Last Voices of the Rhondda, Photogrammetry, Portraiture, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Rhondda Heritage Park

Through out September, October and November, with the help of our partners, we contacted ex-miners and some miners’ wives, from the Rhondda valley area. Katherin Lewis, the outrach officer from […]

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