Open Past - Making Humanity

Apply for this SGSAH-funded internship with Open Past, up to 12 weeks FTE, between January & October 2025.

The project is titled Making Humanity and will involve adding to the free resources of the Making Humanity project, either through research and social engagement or through the creation of artistic activities

Deadline for Applications is 15th November 2024.

Location

We anticipate this being remote but given that applicants can have great latitude in developing what they do for the project – this is open to being adapted.

Project

We are running a project, Making Humanity, which provides free art activities for anyone to use around the theme of ‘caring’. There have been colouring sheets, themed around historical or archaeological subjects of people caring for one another. TikTok videos based on the research for the colouring sheets and storytelling workshops based on locations and museum items. You can learn more about the project on the website:
https://making-humanity.org/

Outputs

The goal of this residency/internship will be to add to the free resources of this project. There are two avenues to do so, applicants are free to choose which one they would like to undertake:

1. Research and social engagement. We need to provide short briefs on the topics to the artists. This strand would be creating those briefs i.e. conducting research, finding reference images, etc. Also, the promotion of the existing and new resources. Past interns have worked on creating a podcast, creating TikTok videos/YouTube Shorts, etc. We are open to any ideas of promotion.

2. The creation of additional colouring sheets or broaden out the project to other artistic activities e.g. TikTok videos, story telling workshops, digital games, etc. We are open to proposals in this regard, and you can propose anything, as long as it provides free activities with themes of history, heritage and archaeology.

Please specify in the applications which route you would like to undertake – both will be treated equally when evaluating applicants.

Timescale

Application Deadline: 15th November 2024

Start date (or must start by): Flexible

End date (or must end by): Flexible

Project can be worked full time, part time or flexibly in blocks

Benefits to the Researcher

Give the flexibility in how the intern/resident can contribute to this project there is a range of benefits depending on what they are interested in:

For those with artists skills/aspirations
- an opportunity to hone skills;
- gain practical experience in particular methods;
- learn new methods;
- be inspired in their other work;
- exposure - the website gets about a quarter of a million views a year and could lead to commissions, artists are given their own page to promote links to their other work;
- add material for their professional portfolio.

For those with history/heritage/archaeological skills/aspirations
- it will broaden their knowledge into different historical/archaeological events, possibly ones outside their current area(s) of study;
- experience with public engagement and communication;
- learning knew skills such as the use of specific social media tools, content creation i.e. blogs, podcasts, videos, etc.

For everyone
- experience in undertaking public engagement work;
- experience in create remote public engagement activities;
- knowledge about a range of historical/archaeological events;
- give their CV examples of public engagement, art creation and more;
- contributing to the betterment of society and making a difference in the lives of others.

Key Relationships

Given the what the intern/resident can do is very open they could end up working with a range of people/organisations. For example, they could:

- work with members of the public to develop some of the resources;
- coordinate with museums to take photos of objects;
- speak with professionals about how to undertake certain activities, etc.

This will be determined by what their interests are and what they
want to do for the internship.

Person Specification

Apply here

Return to the Internships & Artists Residencies 2025 page to see other internship opportunities.

First published: 4 October 2024