Happy Habitats 

I was commissioned by the University of Dundee to host a family workshop in the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, to coincide with the Decade of Design exhibition running during the summer.

I developed a workshop in which participants could pick a creature from the zoology museum and create a 3d habitat for it to live in. The session started with a scavenger hunt around the museum, looking for something small, big, with lots of teeth, and something that lives in the sea, forest and a cold place.

I spoke through my development process for making illustrations and interactive pages, and then showed how to create a diorama and triorama as a base for the creations, showing examples I’d made earlier too. The finished results were created using a mix of collage, pencils, pen, different sticky materials and captions to show the different elements of the home.

Feedback 

“it was amazing I loved being so creative”

“edward age 8: really fun activities lets our creativity flow and a really great museum around it, superb overall / no downs!!!”

“we enjoyed the 3d model making the best! amazing selection of materials. you were super friendly and interactive. thank you”

“great workshop, staff very friendly and helpful, particularly patient with two vocla six year olds. thanks ”