About

This site, set in the imaginary future of 2030, is a collaboration between StoryStorm and Open Plaques.

Storystorm

The ‘StoryStorm Network’ (Nov 2013 - Mar 2015) was funded by AHRC CCN+ with the aim of developing collaborative, co-creative workshops to explore the ways stories are increasingly supported and shaped by digital technology.
In collaboration with Open Plaques, we've been working on the StoryStorm Plaques, challenging the conventional blue heritage plaques that pepper the UK landscape with officially validated narratives. StoryStorm Plaques provide a way to generate reflective, nano-stories, capturing future hopes, needs, and goals for individuals and communities by populating the physical environment with plaques.
This week we're at Research Through Design, where we invite you to be part of the story! Share your experiences and co-create stories with StoryStorm by taking part on a tour during the conference and completing and installing your own blue plaque on site.
Sign up for a StoryStorm tour here.

Open Plaques

Open Plaques is 'the museum of the street'.
It is a community-based project started in 2009 which documents, catalogues, and promotes commemorative plaques (often blue and round) installed on buildings and landmarks throughout the world.
The service brings the history that plaques encapsulate to life - and to a larger audience - by building the definitive and most comprehensive resource about these historical markers. The data and resources generated by the project are free to use under a Public Domain declaration. We aim for wide distribution and re-use.
These plaques are a physical representation of the past. StoryStorm are working with Open Plaques on this takeover to make plaques of the future.

How can you add plaques and photos?


Individuals can add a plaque directly to the site and add photos to the listings via Flickr or Wikimedia Commons. Follow a "Your photo. How to add it" link on any plaque for more details.

What kind of plaques can be contributed?


Open Plaques generally connect a specific location (eg. a building) to people or events from the past. StoryStorm want you to imagine the plaques of the future.