Bowles Green has recently worked on two research projects – Design Your Day and Living Landscapes – which included focus groups and pilot projects (nature safaris, orienteering, woodcrafts and looked to identify effective ways to engage target audiences (young people aged 11-18, ‘young explorers’ and ‘explorer families’) in the landscape surrounding Hadrian’s Wall.
The work (which was supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund) is being used to guide the redesign of the Northumberland National Park Authority’s visitor centre at Once Brewed and other interpretation and communications activity.