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Lima recently delivered design and build services for The Ropery Gallery at the Historic Dockyard Chatham.
Our interpretative approach places ropery workers at the heart of the experience. Visitors explore rope and rope-making techniques through low-tech tactile interactives, giving them an appreciation of the skills of the workers alongside a glimpse into their lives through personal stories, tools, machinery and artefacts from the collection.
Evocative in its scale, smell, sounds, materials and atmosphere, the experience transports visitors instantly to past times, communicating the rope-making processes and machinery still in operation today.
Working in partnership with the University of Kent, we created an audio-visual presentation to form a sensory gateway to the gallery. Projected on to rope, a range of illustrative and photographic archive material is woven together to represent the workers over time accompanied by an atmospheric soundscape.today.
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