Stories
In this story we are exploring how museum spaces translate to digital spaces.
This story explores how the song connects to various historical collections and online datasets.
How many life memories are enclosed in our clothes? In how many places, encounters and special moments our garments accompanied us? And how other stories are waiting to be discovered, and can connect us with our garments' past, the people who created, designed, and brought them into the market? I...
I visited Bradford Industrial Museum with the intention of recording Greg Kotovs demonstrate some of the textile machines in his care. We focused on the can-gill machine – an unassuming mechanism that starts 'drawing' combed wool into roving. Drawing sits somewhere in the middle of process for man...
The story of Italian Sisters: Dora and Margherita Mackin - with references to Velia Campbell, (all nee Ricciardo).
The idea of connecting collections is really fantastic, but often, collections can only be connected through data that doesn't feature in heritage collections. There are great connections to be made between the Bradford Industrial Museum collections and the Saltaire Collections, but in this example,...
Sounds are often considered secondary properties of the objects, and are not usually archived and preserved alongside images and material elements in museum collections. But sound is one of the most powerful medium to transport us back in time. It can offer an entirely new way to connect with the pa...
This reflection examines the potential of combining data, stories and histories to explore the links that emerge from crossing data streams.
The Congruence Engine is a three-year research project starting in November 2021 that will use the latest digital techniques to connect industrial history collections held in different locations.