Tag: Blog
Ideas starting to fizz
MX100 Directors Blog 4.10.22 We’re underway again! The launch for our new project ‘100 Years of Mile Cross’ saw 35 citizen researchers sign up to begin the process of finding stories from the last century of the country’s oldest purpose built social housing estate. From now until the end of the year we will be …
Come Yew In! Legacy – Free Educational Resources on Stories Of Migration
For some reason I’ve found myself agreeing to a three week deadline for a 4000 word article about Come Yew In! for an academic journal [Book 2.0]. They are after “a simple reflection on the process” and have tried not to scare me off by assuring me that lots of erudite argument and complicated referencing …
ANGLIA SQUARE: A Love Story
Nearly 3 years ago – when The Common Lot and I were having that brilliant year with the RSC on their Dream 2016 project (http://www.dream2016.org.uk/amateur-group/the-common-lot/) they asked us to fill out a little profile questionnaire for their website. What is your Wildest Dream? they asked us. Not imagining it would happen any time soon I answered “To stage a monumental piece of multi-collaborative outdoor community …
ANGLIA SQUARE: Curiosity, Questions and Summoning a Sense of Place
This morning the schools director Duncan and I took Wensum Junior’s year 6 kids on a guided walk around the square and surrounding area, hoping so to bring alive some of the history that is currently being unearthed by our small army of community researchers. Rather brilliantly Wensum School are spending the whole term working …
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