Lumps of Coal & Fossils
Channel: David lamp
Date: 11/11/2014

Ex coal miners describe finding fossils miles underground.


Re-Dock and MCQN ltd are working with the ex-mining community in St.Helens to transform mining artefacts into an interactive exhibition of enchanted objects, telling the story of the past 30 years.
This project was commissioned by St. Helens Arts Service as part of the second Cultural Hubs programme and is supported by public funding from the Arts Council of England. Delivery is a collaboration between Re-Dock, St. Helens Arts service and Internet Of Things experts MCQN ltd.
This year it is 30 years since the 1984 miners’ strike, which opposed the government’s policy of pit closures. Re-Dock & MCQN ltd., are working with the ex-mining community of St.Helens to create an interactive exhibition of intelligent mining artefacts and we want YOU to help us create it. Once we have collated all of the objects we will be making an interactive exhibition that will transform this collection into enchanted objects that glow, vibrate, move or trigger sounds and videos, when people talk about them online.

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