#TORCHGoesDigital and @OxRBL joins!

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As part of this week’s #TORCHGoesDigital! theme of Storytelling, the TORCH Heritage Programme is taking the opportunity to celebrate with us our ongoing ‘Histories, Mysteries and Future of Oxford Broad Street’s Heads’ project. Find out about how we revealed the lost history of one of the most noticeable Oxford monuments. Learn about the wide range of research topics we are tackling such as built heritage preservation and perception, and exploring extended ‘built heritage services’ with focus on bio-receptivity, diversity and well-being. The project was made possible with funding from the Oxford University Diversity Fund and van Houten Fund, KE SEED Fund and the Heritage Seed Fund. We are actively collaborating with the History of Science Museum and one of our ongoing projects investigates ‘Oxford’s stone built-heritage as a proxy for historical air quality’.

Oxford’s Broads Street Heads – History and Mysteries visual impressions. a) View of one of the two temporary set of sculptures of the Tomorrow’s Oxford Heads – Diversifying Public Sculpture project in front of the History of Science Museum. A gypsum bust made by Alex Wenham mirroring the shape and size of the historic Broad Street Heads, but adding to the canon of values such as BAME and gender equality (© Keiko Ikeuchi); b) exhibition poster “Oxford’s Stone Heads – History and Mysteries” at Blackwell Hall, Weston Library (© Dot Little); c) Public engagement with research at the “Art Rocks” event in May 2019 with Madeleine Katkov and Susan Squibb story telling the history and mysteries of the Broad Street Heads (© Keiko Ikeuchi); d) “The Pink Head” one of the two temporary set of sculptures of the Tomorrow’s Oxford Heads – Diversifying Public Sculpture project in front of the History of Science Museum (© OxRBL 2019).