Working with Universities

UAL: Central St Martins

Tim and Alison are resident lecturers on the MA Narrative Environments course at UAL: Central St Martins. Working with multiple student groups, they deliver the course intruction and support students to repspond effectively and creatively to the briefs that are set for them by the Industry Partners. You can find out more about the MA Narrative Environments course, here.

Loughborough University London (LU LDN)

Since 2015, Peter has been an Industry Partner on the MA Collaborative Projects and Collaborative Dissertations programmes at LU LDN. Each year, we set a challenge for between 25-40 MA students based on current // future trends and challenges in the real world, From Digital Democracy to Heritage Crafts. Over ten weeks, we support student groups to develop creative and effective responses to the briefs, and to take these ideas further by supporting project-based Collaborative Dissertations. You can explore the 2018-2019 projects exploring the concept of HOME, here.

UCL’s Bartlett School: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)

In 2018, we brought CASA into the early research and discussion stages of development looking at the fututre of ‘mobility’ for the Mobility Theme Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. In January 2019, we were one of five companies to be selected for the Virtual Hisotirc Dublin City Project, exploring the potential of different types of data to create valuable and value-adding visitor experiences in a heritage context, working with the Office of Public Works (IRE) and Enterprise Ireland.

Max Planck Institute

In June 2018, Tim was invited to present a guest lecture at the prestigious Max Planck Institute, in Germany, to speak about museum practise and TGAC’s work developing the interpetation of cuneiform tablets for the the new Middle East Galleries at Penn Museum, PA. You can listen to a full recording of this lecture, Translating the Past, here.

Florida State University (Sarasota)

Tim and Alison were invited to deliver a guest lecture and run an intesive creative sprint with postgrad students at Florida State University in Sarasota - home to the incredible Ringling Collection - exploring and experimenting with the relationships between narrative, objects, space and storytelling.

Palazzo Spinelli (Florence)

Following the imense flooding of Florence in 1966, the city established Palazzo Spinelli to develop conservation and restoration skills in-country to care for the nation’s unique and iconic collections. Tim and Alison delivered a series of guest lectures around museology and interpretation, as well as setting the brief and overseeing a 3 day creative sprint project with MA students from the college. Two students from the college went on to do internships at TGAC, Carmen Sarmiento and Chiara Santi, before moving out into the cultural sector.

University of Malta

During the development of Fort St Elmo, Tim and Alison were invited to deliver a series of guest lectures at the University of Matla sharing industry trends and best practise around museum development and heritage interpretation for complex cultural projects.

R&D and Collaboration in 2020 and beyond…

In 2020, we are exploring new levels of collaboration, research and development with LU LDN and others, including the University of Cardiff - responding to COVID-19 and the emerging social, political and professional culture shifts, as well as broader challenges and opportunities of our time.

Our current interest and activities for Arts, Humanities and Digital research include; creative community engagement, community building and collaborative problem-solving; narrative-led approaches for visioning and team building; knowledge exchange experiences, processes and platforms; building and supporting active collaborative and cooperative networks; working towards action-based outcomes, outputs and collective evaluation; narrative integrity and the experience of transformation.

If you’re a researcher working in these fields, or a university looking to develop ambitious and creative industry partnerships, then please feel free to reach out at any time, here.