St. Pauls Museum

Research aim: The conceptualisation of St. Pauls museum in the decolonised manner to enrich and involve local community members.

THE TEAM: Eléonore Champenois, Phillipa Beaumont, Georgios Charalampous, Anna Hribová, Callum Swift

Collaborators: Cognitive paths

We are a collective of five First Year Masters Architecture students at UWE who expressed interest in the topic of decolonisation and were consequently selected to run the community collaborative project to conceptualise a decolonised museum in St Paul’s. The project time frame ran between the end of October 2020 to mid-January 2021 and covered the first stages of conceptualising a museum, through a participatory process with the local community wherever possible.

Projects aims:

Providing support to empower the community, Boost economy and future growth, Sustainable Approach, Reclaiming the narrative of the cultural heritage with locals and visitors, Boost the activity in the area all year around, Voice St. Paul’s’ Stories, Conceptualise the De-Colonised museum as a building

The project is implementing the concept of a “De-Colonised Museum” in the area of St Paul’s and Ashley Ward, Bristol. A series of workshops, engagements with the local community, and public experiments, took place in order of realising, in one form of another, the museum. The provisional site, 31-32 Cave Street, for the museum comprises of a bomb damaged Georgian building, with extensive warehouses to North-West and South. At this stage of the concept of a “De-colonised Museum”, has created meaningful discussion with the community and collaborated with other interested organisations to help facilitate what concept will look like for the area. The outline brief from UWE and Cognitive paths is to develop proposals for a creative, aspirational museum for the locals and wider community.The proposal is reflecting the rich public discussion and further collaboration in the virtual and physical manner.

Project links:

Project proposal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nksuQnToGyQ&list=PLogAV27cYtJ4265XtZILjvfGJM_mmxuUa&index=6&ab_channel=RadioBabel

Website animation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQerZMuTLgo&feature=youtu.be

Mobile app animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11BtXQVucmE%0D&feature=youtu.be