‘Open up’Unlocking the

potential of

archives & collections

through creative

collaboration

Alisdair Aldous and Katie Mills, Knowledge Transfer Consultants University of the Arts London (UAL)

UNIVERSITY COLLABORATION

Universities offer a range of approaches to knowledge transfer:

Special Projects Research Events

KTP/Shorter KTP Sponsored PhDs Workshops

Consultancy Studentships Exhibitions

Bespoke solutions KT Fellowships Talks

Student Commissions

Competitions

Client Projects

Ideas generation

THE SUPPORT WE OFFER

OPEN CONVERSATIONWe engage in an exploratory conversation to identify your organisational needs, and to propose potential solutions that the University could provide.

FUNDING BODIES We can help identify the appropriate funding for your project e.g. JISC, AHRC, and shape the project to meet funding criteria.

LEVERAGING MATCH FUNDINGBy demonstrating the business benefits, we can help you gain financial support from within your organisation to help lever significant match-funding.

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER PARTNERSHIPS (KTPS)Help organisations with limited budgets gain access to valuable university expertise and services by accessing external funding.

OUR EXPERTISE, YOUR PRIORITIES

• Archives and collections management (80+ collections)

• Conducting research

• Developing new/existing audiences

• Developing an educational offer

• Creating an on-line/digital presence

• Generating revenue from the collection

• Increasing access to the collection

• Designing exhibitions and engaging audiences in new ways

• Taking innovative approaches to interpreting and curating

• New approaches to marketing and communication

• Creative Interventions and artistic responses

Developing and diversifying an educational offer through user needs analysis and design

Bridgeman Art Library KTP

Outcomes: - Development of e-commerce service targeting the educational sector

incl. improved management of the company’s website- Creation of educational web pages and seminars in collaboration with

educational bodies and institutions- New process developed to improve digitising efficiency- New search categories created (e.g. Graphic Design, Fashion) to

expand Bridgeman’s sales potential in the Education market- Exploration of new business models for licensing images

“It is helping Bridgeman Education reach the next generation of graphic designers and picture researchers, and creating a new income stream for the business.”

- Pandora Mather-Lees, Managing Director, Bridgeman Art Library

Increasing visitor numbers and audience diversity through interactive experiences

Southbank Centre KTP

“KTP is a really creative and powerful way of the Southbank Centre furthering its own ambitions and its own ideas about itself in collaboration with another intuition and another individual who has very different skills to that of the people who work here.”

- Shan Maclennan, Creative Director of Learning and Participation at Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre.

Outcomes- An increase in visits to the Southbank’s

flicker site from less than 10 per day to over 5,000

- Approx. 11,500 individual interactions with the photo booth

- KTP also delivered interactive installation, audio tours, spatial redesign and training workshops

Photo copyright: Southbank Centre

Image copyright: Summer Snapshots, Southbank Centre

Creative Interventions, Responses and Campaigns

V&A Museum

Photos: copyright V&A

“Live performance within the collections challenges the common assumption of the museum as a passive place. Responsive and interventionist performance have the ability to reactivate both the artefact and the space.”

- Peter Farley, Senior Academic Lecturer, Wimbledon College (UAL)

Delegate Packs

Katie Mills, k.mills@arts.ac.ukAlisdair Aldous, a.aldous@arts.ac.uk

Group Discussion

Using someone in the group’s archive/collection as an example, select one of

the 3 priority issues on your handout and:

1. Describe 1 or 2 creative or strategic projects that have been done or could be done to achieve this goal

2. Describe what expertise or support a university collaboration could offer to help achieve or enhance this

3. What could the archive/collection offer that would be of value or benefit to the university?

BEYOND THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT…

Archives and collections management Archive and collections research Audience developmentDeveloping education and learning materialsCataloguing and indexingCommercialising content e.g. licensing Connecting collections (physical and virtual)Conservation and preservationCreative Interventions and artistic responsesCreating interactive and engaging environmentsCuration including new and innovative practicesDigitising collectionsInteractive websites, and virtual galleries and learning environmentsOnline metadata and taggingObject and image interpretation Photography and photographic archivesOral histories and pod castsProduct, display and exhibition designWidening participation and access

Artists and artists work Artists' Books, Camberwell College of Arts, Artists' Books, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Artists’ Books,

Printing Historical Collection, Artists’ Multiples, Bow Gamelan and Paul Burwell Archive, Contemporary Collection, Dom Sylvester

Houedard Archive, Dorothea Rockburne Archive, Ephemera Collection, Facsimile Sketchbooks, Fine art, Prints and Drawings

Collection, Ian Hamilton Finlay Archive, Japanese Print Collection, Jean Spencer Archive, John Schlesinger Library, Lawrence

Weiner Archive, Lethaby Collection, Mariko Mori Archive, Peter Liversidge Archive, Photographic Exhibition Poster Collection,

Stephen Willats Archive Asian and black history African-Caribbean, Asian & African Art in Britain Archive Bookbinding Charles

Pickering Collection, Decorated Books from the Netherlands, Talwin Morris Collection, Teaching Books Collection Contemporary art

Artists’ Multiples, CAB Gallery Archive, Camberwell Collection, Contemporary Art Slide Scheme, Contemporary Collection, Dom

Sylvester Houedard Archive, Dorothea Rockburne Archive, Ephemera Collection, Jean Spencer Archive, John Schlesinger Library,

Lawrence Weiner Archive, Mariko Mori Archive, Peter Liversidge Archive Fashion Business Archives Council Collection, Cooling

Lawrence & Wells Collection. Cordwainers College Archive, EMAP Archive, Ethel E Cox Collection [London College of Fashion

Archive], Gala Collection, Hat Collection, Hayes Collection of Textiles, Hester Borron Collection, Historic Shoes Collection,

International Wool Secretariat Photographs [The Woolmark Company], Jenifer Rosenberg Collection, Korner Collection, London

Alliance of West End Cutters Collection, Louis Bund Collection, Paper Patterns Collection, Tailoring Archive [Rare Publications

Collection], Tailor and Cutter Academy Archive, Women’s Home Industries Archive Fashion, retail C&A Archive, Louis Bund

Collection, Paper Patterns Collection Film and cinema Film Script Collection, German Film Poster Collectionm, John Schlesinger

Library, Stanley Kubrick Archive, Thorold Dickinson Collection Foot ware Cordwainers College Archive Graphic design C&A

Archive, Charles Pickering Collection, Comic Book Collection, German Film Poster Collection, John Westwood Collection, London

College of Communication Archive, Photographic Exhibition Poster Collection, Tom Eckersley Collection Illustration Comic Book

Collection, Fine art, Prints and Drawings Collection, Japanese Print Collection, Lethaby Collection, London College of Communication

Archive, Rare Illustrated Books Collection, Talwin Morris Collection, Tom Eckersley Collection, Walter Crane Collection Institutional

records African-Caribbean, Asian & African Art in Britain Archive, Artist Placement Group Archive, Bow Gamelan and Paul Burwell

Archive, C&A Archive, Camberwell College of Arts Archive , Camerawork Archive, Chelsea College of Art and Design Archive,

Cooling Lawrence & Wells Collection, Cordwainers College Archive, De Appel Archive, Delfryd Celf Gallery Archive, Ephemera

Collection, International Wool Secretariat Photographs [The Woolmark Company], Inventory Archive, London Alliance of West End

Cutters Collection, London College of Communication Archive, London College of Fashion Archive, London College of Fashion

Digitised Archives, Materials and Products Collection, Museum and Study Collection, Kurt Schwitters Collection, Tailor and Cutter

Academy Archive, Tailor’s and Outfitters’ Assistants’ General Friendly Society Collection, Teaching Book Collection, Women’s Home

Industries Archive, Women’s International Art Club Archive Make-up Mary Quant Poster design German Film Poster Collection,

John Westwood Collection, Tom Eckersley Collection Printing Bess Frimodig Collection, Catherine Arthur Collection, Charles

Pickering Collection, Fine art, Prints and Drawings Collection, Japanese Print Collection, John Westwood Collection, Printing

Historical Collection, Robert Fenton Archive, Talwin Morris Collection, Rare books and journals Camberwell College of Arts Rare

Books Collection, Decorated Books from the Netherlands, Historic Journals Collection, Printing Historical Collection, Rare Illustrated

Books Collection, Rare Materials Collection, Thorold Dickinson Collection, Walter Crane Collection Textiles Fine art, Prints and

Drawings Collection, Hayes Collection of Textiles, International Wool Secretariat Photographs [The Woolmark Company], Louis Bund

Collection, Materials Collection, Materials and Products Collection, Textiles Collection Theatre and film design Jocelyn Herbert

Archive, Stage Costume Collection, Stanley Kubrick Archive, Theatre Costume Design Collection Typography Charles Pickering

Collection Edward Clark Collection, John Westwood Collection, Robert Fenton Archive 3D art Artists’ Multiples, Camberwell

Collection, Gala Collection, Materials and Products Collection, Museum and Study Collection