Creative 3D Digital and the Future of Income for Cultural Organisations and Independent Creatives

This project will bring Culture Coventry, custodians of the Coventry Transport Museum, the Herbert Art Gallery and Coventry Archive, and Coventry Biennial, the bi-annual showcase for independent artists, together with communities, academics and local 2D and 3D scanning companies to explore how to foster an eco-system for creative sector to enable digital revenues and greater public reach.

On a full day during the FOSS week, we will showcase digitisation of 3D and 2D objects to a public audience at The Box in Fargo Village, with a plenary debate on what it will take for creators and copyright owners of cultural assets to digitise and organise assets and begin to generate revenue from them and to better engage the public with them.

We hope that this day and its sessions will highlight the need to support the local creative sector through being involved, the work that is ongoing in this area to develop a sustainable creative ecosystem (such as CreaTech Frontiers, CWX or at a community level) and to discuss a roadmap where everyone benefits from digitisation and organisation of cultural data.

Dr Ben Kyneswood

Annebella Pollen is Professor of Visual and Material Culture at University of Brighton. Her research areas include mass photography and the popular image, and histories of art, craft, design and dress, especially marginal, alternative and non-canonical forms. Instagram @annebella_pollen

Tom Flynn works in the field of cultural heritage specialising in 3D digitisation, online publishing, open access, storytelling, and interoperability. He has provided expert advice to UNESCO, The European Commission, Oxford University, Creative Commons.

Linda Spurdle is a freelance consultant and producer in the Culture and Creative Industries. She has twenty years of experience as a digital leader within museums.

Derek Lawrence of Twindl (formerly of Arup) is Chartered Building Services Engineer advising organisations on the benefits and practical implementation of reality capture, AR (Augmented reality), VR (virtual reality) and photogrammetry technologies.

Martin Deveraux has worked in the Cultural Heritage sector for over 25 years. As a qualified archivist, Martin has experience of cataloguing historic collections, particularly business archives.

Dr Hua Guo (Horry) manages the AME metrology laboratory, along with other research facilities in the Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME). He takes responsibilities for developing and delivering academic-industrial collaborated projects.

Genus works alongside libraries, archives and museums offering state of the art imaging and digitisation services for rare, fragile and specialist heritage collections.

SolidPrint3D offer businesses honest, impartial advice coupled with best-in-class 3D printing, 3D scanning and workbench manufacturing solutions.

Culture Coventry attractions proudly tell stories of Coventry’s unique history to over 800,000 visitors per year from around the world.

Coventry University Archives houses the history of Coventry University and its predecessors, and collections relating to the city and people of Coventry.

Everyone

The day connects to personal, business and community cultural interests, particularly those with an interest in making cultural objects available and usable by the public

*Schedule change - now one day event on 4 November, running from 10-5.

No deadline