About Us
From dinosaurs to digital heritage, we’ve been working at the forefront of cultural development and interpretive design for nearly 30 years.
UK National Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai exploring the future of life on earth, in space and the role of AI. (project delayed until 2021)
Mobility Theme Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai early stage visioning and narrative development workshop with leading SMEs exploring the future of ‘mobility’. (project delayed until 2021)
Transplant and Life UK exhibition at the RCS Hunterian Museum in 2017 - giving voice to the patient experience of organ transplantation
The UAE National Pavilion at Expo 2015 Milan explores the nation’s vision for a more sustainable future and their role in helped to achieve it.
Director, Tim Gardom, was awareded an MBE for his work with UK faith communities to create the Millnnium Experience’s Faith Zone, in 2000.
Dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum in London (1994) is visited by more than 1m people each year and continues to bring these aminals to life in the public imagination.
Tim Gardom Associates are leading consultants for culture, based in the UK.
Our team has more than 30 years’ experience working across the UK, Europe, the USA, the Middle East and in Asia.
We are highly experienced in (end-to-end and rapid) masterplanning, team building and creative direction for complex projects, including Tone of Voice development, design coordination, research, content and scripting, and digital.
We specialise in high level creative consultation and development for narrative-led and cultural projects, working with national and local governments and their agencies, businesses, museums, cultural and community organisations.
We also support organisations through practical and project-based training, observation, mentoring and knowledge exchange, to develop leadership and in-house skills at all levels, as well as to offer clients lasting social and in-country value integrated as part of project delivery.
Our team works with a range of graduate and post-graduate univerisites, as resident and guest lecturuers and tutors, to commission original research and through industry partnerships.
“ Museums tell the world’s most important stories. Either the stories are of world importance, or they are the most important stories in the lives of the people telling them. ”
‘Do It Yourself: Growing Creative Ecosystems in and for the Gulf’. Paper presented at the Museums In Arabia Conference in 2019. Director, Alison Grey, MA, PGCE.
More than ten million people a year engage with the narratives and experiences we’ve helped create - from ancient to digital, from intimate to immense.
Since 1993, we’ve been known as part of the ‘radical interpretive tendency’, operating at the forefront of creative museum and cultural practise.
Our experience of developing and delivering complex projects and working with diverse teams of clients, stakeholders, audiences and specialist delivery partners, has taught us that the only thing that can bring everyone together and keep them on the same path is the core narrative.
We support clients to (re-)articulate their vision and purpose, to find ways of expressing that to engage stakeholders, core and target audiences, as well as developing the strategy and means for acting out their narrative in the world.
Our role is to bring client, stakeholder and delivery teams together to develop a set of shared goals and principles and to safeguard those throughout the complex process of creative development.
You are the experts in you. Our role is to be expert in helping you find new ways of seeing yourself, understanding what makes you unique, and sharing your story.
Clients include:
Diriyah Gate development Authority, Historic England, National Trust, Saudi Aramco, Heritage Malta, Motorolla, KPMG, Natural History Museum, UK Department for Internation Trade, Deisgn Museum London, Macallan, Dubai Culture, Kingdom of Bahrain, Ministry for Gozo, Qatar Museums Authority, Aerospace Bristol, Bacardi Global Brands, Stagecoach Performing Arts, and many more.
In 2006, Tim and Alison co-authored, Saying It Differently: A Handbook For Museums Seeking To Refesh Their Displays, in collaboration with the London Museums Hub. You can download this for free - here.
In 2018, Tim was invited to speak at the Max Planck Institute, Germany, about our work interpreting cuneiform tablets at the new Middle East Galleries an Penn University Museum, PA - here.
In 2019, Alison was invited to present a paper at the Museums in Arabia Conference held in London, speaking about the need to develop creative eco-systems to support cultural sector and social development on and for the Gulf Peninsula - here.
In other parts of the forest:
Tim and Alison are Resident Lecturers and Tutors on the MA Narrative Environments course and UAL: Central St Martins in London.
They also deliver guest lectures and workshops at other univerisities, including;
Florida State University, University of Malta in Valetta, and Palazzo Spinelli in Florence.
Peter is an Industry Partner at Loughborough University London working with tutors and groups of students to deliver the MA Collaborative Projects Module and support MA Collaborative Dissertations.
