The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces – and its legacy today
If you’re a people-watcher, this film was made for you.
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On death and Daimlers: Memories of a family business
The Multi-Sensory Memories project was to collect memories and ideas to tell the story of Coventry Transport Museum’s commercial collection. That included: post vans, tractors, buses… and a 1960s Daimler hearse.
Co-creating “We Love Coventry”: an exhibition of the everyday
This on-going Projects series aims to give a “behind the scenes” look at my work with people and communities. Check out the Projects page or the Archives for more. Feel free to leave a comment, or drop me a line via the Contact page. The “We Love Coventry” exhibition is all about Coventry as a city today, and […]Read Post ›
Places for people: User-centred design
Redesigning public spaces provides an ideal opportunity to not only improve the look of the space, but also to make it more user-friendly. How do we know what “user-friendly” means? Well, the best way to get the full picture is to ask the users themselves: the public. The idea of the public being involved in designing public spaces is […]Read Post ›
Photos from the East: Nihon through a lens
I recently visited Japan and had great fun exploring Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. I also managed to capture a few of the sights along the way… Please hover over to see the captions and click for a larger view.
Furoshiki: Japanese wrapping cloths
In December 2014, I headed over to the Rugby Art Gallery and Museum to see “It’s a wrap: Japanese furoshiki past and present“, a colourful history of Japanese wrapping cloths. The exhibition covered the traditional furoshiki, through to modern-day versions with popular manga characters. There was even a section that showed how furoshiki are being embraced […]Read Post ›
Coming Soon…
I’m currently working on the first posts for Sharing Worlds, Sharing Cultures… If you’re on Twitter, why not follow me @lmusgrave in the meantime? Please pop back soon!
