This printed guide was the result of a series of co-design workshops with a group of young people.
The Assembly House Trust have long wanted to make the fascinating, gruelling, uplifting stories of the Assembly House more accessible. So alongside a group of children aged 7-14, I teamed up with facilitator and historian Roxanne Matthews to do just that.
The young guides worked & played hard to find the juiciest details from the House's past, to create their own guide. The group immersed themselves in tales and the remaining physical structures of the House, through drama, play and drawing. They created the character of Chestnut to take the reader through the history of the house.
I worked collaboratively with the group across two days to develop the children's writing, drawing, performances and games into a functional and accessible guide they could be proud of and present to the public at a launch event on Heritage Open Day. The guide is available now to to fellow young visitors to the house.
The content of the guide included riddles and a word search, a comic and a timeline.
