David lamp (30 Years Of)

30 Years of.. is a new creative heritage project for the ex-mining community in St.Helens.

This activity combines heritage and creative technology, it is suitable for people of all ages, from 8 to 98.

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.

This week creative technologist Adrian McEwen & artist Neil Winterburn will be showing us how to transform everyday objects into enchanted objects that respond to things happening on the internet. For example a poker that glows when people talk about St. Helens and mining on Facebook.

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 a