The Creative Economy Fellowships -

October 29, 2019

Role(s): Principal InvestigatorThe Fitzwilliam Museum

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This project which is generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) brings together three key actors in the heritage ecosystem:

  • the University of Cambridge
  • the Fitzwilliam Museum
  • two industrial collaborators - Museum in a Box and ThinkSee3D

When combined they provide three essential perspectives that will enable us to choose and drive forward four early career researcher (ECR) projects that will lead to enhanced collaborations that benefit the creative economy. The University of Cambridge is home to a nucleus of world leading collections under the banner of University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) and this project will aim to enable innovation across the group.

The efficacy of this type of partnership can be developed during this project to refine engagement models for the future. A particular challenge for businesses selling into the cash-strapped heritage industry is access to customers; in this project the Fitzwilliam Museum will be in the unique position of being both a research partner and the provider of invaluable input as a potential customer/end user for heritage industry products.

By providing a shared base within a museum and through partnership with industrial collaborators, the researchers will benefit from exposure to two new contexts in which their research could be used. The ECRs will also be able to apply their expertise to a live challenge and foster cross-sectoral information sharing and awareness-raising both during this project and in their future careers.

Our partners bring unique skill sets to the Museum. ThinkSee3D and Museum in a Box are innovators in joining heritage with digital. This site will document our 2019 journey of collaborations, events and products.

This project is grant AH/S012583/1 part of the Development Grants Scheme. It starts on January 1st 2019 and finishes on December 31st 2019.

How did it fit in with digital activity?

An overview of the linking of CEEF3D to projects
An overview of the linking of CEEF3D to projects

Outputs

The fellows created a wide array of outputs during their short 6-month stay in the Fitzwilliam Museum. These included:

Installation of Abi Glen's MIAB in the Feast and Fast exhibition
Installation of Abi Glen's MIAB in the Feast and Fast exhibition

Installation of travelling objects 3d prints in Antiquities case
Installation of travelling objects 3d prints in Antiquities case

  • An installation in the Feast and Fast exhibition
  • An installation in the Antiquities Gallery temporary case
  • Commissioned artwork with local artists in Cambridgeshire
  • 3D tactile prints for handling collections (printed by Steve Dey at ThinkSee3D, and Shapeways)
  • Publication relating to the project
  • A fully catered one day conference at the Judge Business School attended by 100 people
  • Pop up museum segments for the Egyptian Coffins project
  • Several workshop talks for academics and students
  • A wooden replica of a box coffin from Egypt
  • A derived 3d model from DICOM data of an Egyptian coffin

3D models

The embed below shows all the 3d models that the team created in their short period of time.

Audio files

These are all CC-BY licensed.

1 - Mr Pinchy - Abi Glen (MIAB - Feast and Fast)

2 - Hares Roasting A Hunter: Narrative - Abi Glen (MIAB - Feast and Fast)

3 - Hares Roasting A Hunter - Abi Glen (MIAB - Feast and Fast)

4 - Fat Kitchen - Abi Glen (5 - MIAB - Feast and Fast)

Thin Kitchen - Abi Glen (MIAB - Feast and Fast)

1 - Winifred Lamb Introduction - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

2 - Dear Colleague - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

3 - Like Frogs - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

4 - Islands are key - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

5 - Lamb Excavating - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

6 -The Islands of Thermi - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

7 - The discovery of Thermi - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

8 - A plan of Thermi - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

9 - The Lamb redisplay - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

10 - The Lamb poem - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

11 - A poem about the hills of Greece - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

12 - Terracotta Boat - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

13 - Limestone male statue - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

14 - Syrian Horse - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

15 - Skyphos cup - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

16 - Minoan Double Axe - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

17 - Dolphin Stone - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

18 - Charming Octopus Pot - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

19 - The Fitzwilliam Goddess - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

20 - Male Worshipper Figurine - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

21 - Portrait of Winifred Lamb - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

22 - Lost at Sea (part 1) - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

23 - Lost at Sea (part 2) - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

24 - What do you think? - Jennifer Wexler (MIAB - Travelling Objects)

People I worked with

  • Abi Glen
  • Joanne Vine
  • Jennifer Wexler
  • Catriona Cooper
  • Melanie Pitkin
  • Hannah Platts
  • Kathryn Fry
  • Steve Dey
  • George Oates

Institutional Partners

  • ThinkSee3D
  • Museum in a Box (MiAB)

Funding

  • AHRC
  • Grant amount: £201,557
  • Grant number: AH/S012583/1

Publications

  • D Pett, C Cooper, AL Glen, M Pitkin, J Wexler (2022) Fad Touch: Creative Economy Engagement in Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science, 431-448
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