The Pararchive Project

  In an update on her Pararchive research project entitled Back to the Future: When Wearable Technology Meets Archive Content, we learnt how Michelle – a member of the MadLab Manchester Arduino Group and Founder and Director of Made With Glove Ltd – is designing fashionable heated gloves for women who suffer from the Raynaud’s…

Come and join the Pararchive team at the Connected Communities Festival 2014 in Cardiff on Tuesday 1st & Wednesday 2nd July. We are running a range of exciting activities, all of which are free and open to all (see below for details).  Both the Breakout session and the Gladstone 2013 – Fired Up! Workshop will…

When we hear of wearable technologies that help create new, innovative and often intuitive products that improve our wellbeing in all sorts of life situations, not many of us would instantly think about how archival material would fit in this whole process. This is precisely what Michelle – a lawyer by trade, member of the…

As I’ve discussed on a couple of occasions already with Daniel and Imran, it’s becoming clear that a parallel process of Pararchive is to record our stories of exploration, development, and community discussion. As well as blogging about our community research process and progress, I’m generating the documentation required to rebuild my project in the…

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve had an idea in mind to explore archive material related to Manchester by walking through the streets themselves. After deliberating over a few methods of doing this, I’ve decided that the interface of a portable radio is a great way to do this: you walk around the…

One of the aims of Pararchive is to bring together community groups, members of the public and cultural institutions to collaboratively engage with our shared cultural and historical heritage in order to ensure its ongoing relevance. This partnership is enabling project members to interact with the diverse assets and collections of our project institutional partners…

Having toyed with the idea of spatial exploration for accessing archive material since the initial Pararchive meeting I attended in December, I pitched the idea to Arduino Manchester members at our last meeting to some positive responses. Initially, I thought this might involve handling objects or walking ‘through’ a story in a gallery space, but…