Abstract
With the help of our colleagues at the Watt Institution and Isabela Cabrera Lalinde, a Research Assistant at the School - our team developed an online exhibition - Remembering Sugaropolis - for the outreach part of the Visualising Sugaropolis project.
The Visualising Sugaropolis project – funded by British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust - is a collaborative network of heritage officers, scholars and GIS practitioners from the Universities of Edinburgh (School of GeoSciences), St Andrews and Abertay. The project is aimed at visualising and re-imaging how diverse agents involved in Greenock’s sugar industry inhabited spaces created by the capitalist sugar industry.
The project – which started in 2018 – began its preliminary archival research with a series of activities with visitors to the McLean Museum and Inverclyde Heritage Hub (now the Watt Institution) in Greenock, using methodological experimentation such as taste interviews and the co-design of story maps, game prototypes and virtual landscapes. By creating sensory narratives about the role of sugar in Greenock’s past, the project aims to develop inclusive and accessible explanations for sugar’s role in Scotland’s history.
The Visualising Sugaropolis project – funded by British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust - is a collaborative network of heritage officers, scholars and GIS practitioners from the Universities of Edinburgh (School of GeoSciences), St Andrews and Abertay. The project is aimed at visualising and re-imaging how diverse agents involved in Greenock’s sugar industry inhabited spaces created by the capitalist sugar industry.
The project – which started in 2018 – began its preliminary archival research with a series of activities with visitors to the McLean Museum and Inverclyde Heritage Hub (now the Watt Institution) in Greenock, using methodological experimentation such as taste interviews and the co-design of story maps, game prototypes and virtual landscapes. By creating sensory narratives about the role of sugar in Greenock’s past, the project aims to develop inclusive and accessible explanations for sugar’s role in Scotland’s history.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2020 |