The Festival: 28-29 April 2014
The final event of the Transforming Thresholds Festival took place at the end of April. The first day of the Festival took place at the University of Leicester. The second day was hosted at the Y Theatre in Leicester.
We were delighted to bring together some of the participants from the Network's previous events with new presentations from speakers about museums who had not been part of the project, and about threshold spaces which move beyond the museum (including libraries, railways and playgrounds).
We also hosted four workshops, each of which focused on the different conceptual frameworks we had used in our case studies: retail (led by Tracy Harwood, De Montfort University), gaming (led by Erik Kristiansen, Roskilde University), media (led by Angelina Russo, Canberra University) and performing arts (led by Nathan Human, Citizen598).
Over 50 museums were represented by delegates who attended the event. Please take a look at the photographs for a flavour of the events.
The aim of the Festival was to help museums apply our work on the threshold space to their own context. The resource book provided for the Festival contains both summaries of the presentations and some materials to help you begin that process.
You can use Erik Kristiansen's resources for Playing the Lobby to try out solutions in your own museum threshold.
We were delighted to bring together some of the participants from the Network's previous events with new presentations from speakers about museums who had not been part of the project, and about threshold spaces which move beyond the museum (including libraries, railways and playgrounds).
We also hosted four workshops, each of which focused on the different conceptual frameworks we had used in our case studies: retail (led by Tracy Harwood, De Montfort University), gaming (led by Erik Kristiansen, Roskilde University), media (led by Angelina Russo, Canberra University) and performing arts (led by Nathan Human, Citizen598).
Over 50 museums were represented by delegates who attended the event. Please take a look at the photographs for a flavour of the events.
The aim of the Festival was to help museums apply our work on the threshold space to their own context. The resource book provided for the Festival contains both summaries of the presentations and some materials to help you begin that process.
You can use Erik Kristiansen's resources for Playing the Lobby to try out solutions in your own museum threshold.