What does home mean to you? It’s a purposefully broad question that this interactive, fact-finding exhibition asks visitors to respond to in a range of ways. Making Home: a Place to Be invites asks broad questions about the nature of home and invites responses from the public – written, multiple choice stickers or filming their ideas and thoughts in a purpose-built recording booth.

These questions aren’t simply being asked for the sake of it. They all relate to a range of research questions being asked by academics at the University of Birmingham – from homelessness and public to social care and pharmacy. The University is asking visitors what they think about these topics in a pilot exhibition – under the broader theme of ‘home’ – and then intends to use the findings in a fuller exhibition next year. I was pleased to be a part of the interpretation planning team that formed this experimental way of gathering exhibition content. We’re pleased with what we’ve created, but the most exciting stage is ahead, when we see what the public think and say.