1. Understanding Complex Structures: the conservation, display and interpretation of lace and natural objects What you pick up walking down lace street.

2. Partners: Nottingham Trent University Victoria and Albert Museum Natural History Museum Nottingham City Museums and Galleries

3. lace and natural objects Other complex structures?

4. What we are hoping for Inter-disciplinary: scientists, conservators, multimedia and animation specialists, SMEs, designers, museum curators and researchers in contemporary and historical material culture and the heritage of science Inter-institutional: universities, museums, archives, SMEs Beneficiaries: Ourselves and those for whom we conserve/ display/ interpret

5. What we are hoping for A network – A cluster among clusters To understand the potential for collaboration through new partnerships Identify new research questions relevant within and without academia – collaboration into the future To communicate – face to face and online

6. complex structures Machine lace to make complex structures

7. url for message board www.ntu.ac.uk/science_heritagewww.ntu.ac.uk/science_heritage/

8. Dates: Workshop 2: 11 th May Victoria and Albert Museum Workshop 3: 12 th June Wollaton Hall, Nottingham

9. Workshop outline Presentations Natural objects Lace conservation Physics collection tours discussion and feedback