Projects 2012 > The Ivory Bangle Lady > Journal
There is so much to tell about the mysterious Ivory Bangle Lady, so many stories that branch off in many varied and diverse directions. We need to be careful to remain focused on our main aims in order for the project to be a success. In our very first meeting we talked through the main objectives and defined them to the following:
Focused objective
We want visitors to the Yorkshire Museum to emotional engage with the story and questions surrounding the Ivory Bangle Lady.
Broad objective 1
We want to engage people with the importance of studying human remains.
Broad objective 2
The science behind studying human remains has implications across many other fields of interest.
We intend to delve into these in more detail and start to formulate an objectives grid against which any solutions will be judged. The objectives grid will start to split out the visitor objectives into desired emotional, behavioural and learning outcomes.
Posted by Paul Davies
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Hi! Very interested in the idea of emotional engagement across centuries and cultures - your focussed objective here. Quite a lot of work going on in the history field at the moment on historical approaches to emotion - given common language (we all know what we mean by 'fear', 'love', 'anxiety') but difficulty of transposing these concepts across time and culture. Interested to see how 21st century emotional engagement works itself out in your project when the triggers are generated by research into a life experience we cannot 'know' in an empirical sense... Do you know the Queen Mary centre?: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/emotions/
Posted by Steve Poole | 14 Apr 2012 at 09.06