Adrian Davis from the Museum Design team came to talk to us about his role with in the museum. He started by telling us about his background and his route into the job. He showed us some of his University degree work from his theatre design course and a portfolio of bits he had done afterwards he also gave us advice about how to get into a similar role.
Although he leads the design team Adrian said that a lot of his job is project managment but he works alongside specialist staff in the museum as well as freelance designers, artists and makers.
He then told us a bit about the varied role of the design team, he is currently working on a redesign for aspects of Wollaton Hall. To give us an idea of the sort of thing he did he gave us a design problem to solve. He handed out a family tree about the owners and occupiers of Wollaton hall and asked if we could come up with a visual "info graphic " to convey the important information on it.
We are hoping some of these ideas make it into the final redesign !
Here we are having a play with the app. Which can be downloaded here.
It was a fascinating session, Adrian gave us lots of thoughtful advice about developing the opportunities and skills to find work we are interested in and gave us an insight into the work of the design team.