Museum of London
Project
Our Time - Museum of London
Client
Museum of London
Project Team
Asif Khan Architects
Location
City of London
Through a special commission by the Museum of London, we were tasked with designing a series of creative engagement workshops working with the museum’s partnership, curatorial, audience and interpretation team.
Our brief was to facilitate themed insight and exploration workshops with several key creative partners and future audiences identified by the Museum, to challenge and advance the museums thinking as they work with Asif Khan Architects to design a key part of the New Museum called Our Time.
The workshops were integrated into RIBA stage 2 concept design, with the outcomes shaping the developing design and future plans for engagement. Our engagement workshops explored, Collections and Aspirations, Opportunities and Constraints, Objects and Media, Performance and Events and Futures Audiences.
CREATIVE PARTNERS WORKSHOP SERIES
We designed and facilitated a series of workshops working with LGBTQIA+ arts organisation Duckie; New media publication company Gal-Dem, committed to telling the stories of people of colour from marginalised genders; Islington Play Association, which focus on adventure play for children; Nutkhut who create imaginative, stunning performance and installations, re- imagining the told and telling the new, combining dance, circus, and film, and inclusive circus performance company Diverse City.
We used our signature creative engagement approach to draw out key insights whilst simultaneously producing creative mediums to help shape the concept design and aid further conversation and dialogue (such as the Zine below).
The Museum of London has embarked on an epic journey to create a new museum renamed The London Museum. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to re-imagine what a museum for London can be.
Housed in astounding, but currently dilapidated market buildings in West Smithfield, the newly named ‘London Museum’ will stand in the heart of one of the city’s most historic and creative localities, centred on the 1883 General Market.
Their ambition is to create a museum that is truly London, that represents the openness of the city to all, and that is appealing and meaningful for the diverse population of London and for visitors from many different parts of the UK and the world. The London Collection will sit at the heart of it all, representing more than 10,000 years of history.
Internationally renowned design team led by Stanton Williams Architects with Asif Khan Studio and Julian Harrap Conservation Architects has been working with the museum team since 2016.
FUTURE AUDIENCE WORKSHOP SERIES
Additionally, we designed a series of focus group workshops for the Museum of London, engaging with two key demographics: those 55+ and those 16 -25 years of age, both of whom were identified by the Museum as least engaged the museum.
Taking place over three sessions across three consecutive weeks, we focused on facilitating key discussions that allowed the design team and the museum to hear directly from the target audience groups, learning about their wants, needs and aspirations for the new museum and specifically the Our Time space.
Additionally, we designed a series of focus group workshops for the Museum of London, engaging with two key demographics: those 55+ and those 16 -25 years of age, both of whom were identified by the Museum as least engaged the museum.
Taking place over three sessions across three consecutive weeks, we focused on facilitating key discussions that allowed the design team and the museum to hear directly from the target audience groups, learning about their wants, needs and aspirations for the new museum and specifically the Our Time space.
