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Overhead photo of a workshop table during a live graphic recording session by Buttercrumble. A large in-progress illustrated map of the Midlands sits in the centre, with hand-drawn outlines and photos taped on marking museum locations, including Bassetlaw Museum, Tamworth Castle, Pen Museum, Selly Manor Museum, and Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. An illustrator works on a drawing tablet in the bottom left, sketching part of the map. Around the table, participants' hands hold pens as they annotate printed worksheets with reflective questions about museums and communities. The table is scattered with workshop materials — pens, scissors, glue sticks, notebooks, a flask, phones, and a packet of shortbread biscuits. The Museum Development Midlands logo is visible on the printed map

Creating a sense of place: using creative facilitation and visual notetaking with Museum Development Midlands.

Creative studio Buttercrumble worked with Museum Development Midlands to close out its Sense of Place Programme, using creative facilitation and visual notetaking to capture the region’s museum impact. Through a co-produced memory map, practitioners reflected on their communities’ past, present and future, turning intangible themes into something visible and memorable. The session created space for ... Read more


Published: 2026 | Resource type: Case studies

A crowded city square with people milling in front of an impressive, columnated building.

Evaluation report: Birmingham 2022 Festival

An overarching evaluation report of the key findings from the Birmingham 2022 Festival. This report represents the culmination of 12-months’ work collaborating with the Organising Committee for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games (the OC) to evaluate its cultural programme, the Birmingham 2022 Festival.


Published: 2023 | Resource type: Evaluation reports

Front cover illustration by Nicole Mollett

Persistent Encounter: social capital and Creative People and Places

Drawing on a range of discussions this think piece explores the language, relationship and potential impact of Creative People and Places (CPP) in achieving and measuring developed social capital and social change. Written by Karen Smith.


Published: 2018 | Resource type: Article