Phil Aldrich

Phil is a widely recognized expert in institutional and interpretative planning with decades of experience in the development of cultural attractions. He brings valuable perspective, sound knowledge and creative energy to each project. With excellent leadership and facilitation skills, Phil enables groups to work together to quickly create ideas, resolve conflicting perspectives or effectively advance strategic plans. Phil has customized the workshop process for diverse groups of clients, stakeholders and designers to assist the development of successful outcomes. He applies a holistic and collaborative approach to help clients think strategically, see relationships among ideas, make sense of the design process and build commitment.

Education
· Certified Professional Facilitator, International Association of Facilitators
· Certified ToP Facilitator Designation, Institute of Cultural Affairs, Toronto, ON
· Advanced Facilitation Certificate, Institute of Cultural Affairs, Toronto, ON
· Bachelor of Arts (Urban Studies), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Professional Affiliations
· American Association of Museums
· Association of Children’s Museums
· Association of Science Technology Centers
· Canadian Association of Science Centres
· Canadian Museums Association
· Interpretation Canada
· Institute of Cultural Affairs Canada
· International Association of Facilitators
Group Facilitated Strategic Planning and Concept Development
· West Vancouver Arts, Culture and Heritage Facility Development Study, West Vancouver, BC
· Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, Santa Cruz, CA
· Williams Lake Tourism Discovery Centre, Williams Lake, BC
· Dawson Creek Visitor Centre, Dawson Creek, BC
· Sea to Sky Adventure Centre Concept Development Workshop, Squamish, BC
· National Maritime Museum of Canada - Creative Concept, Vancouver, BC
· Capilano College Program Development, Squamish, BC
· Valles Caldera National Preserve Interpretive Master Plan, Los Alamos, NM
· Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre Master Planning, Concept Development, Osoyoos, BC
· Pushpa Gujral Science City Master Planning, Chandigarh, India
· Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Master Planning, Batavia, IL
· Great Canadian Science Adventure Travelling Exhibit: Canadian Association of Science Centres
· Las Vegas Springs Preserve Interpretive Master Planning, Las Vegas, NV
· Desert Living Center Concept Development, Las Vegas, NV
· Dynamic Earth Thematic Development Sudbury, ON
· Lacerte Children's Zoo Master Planning and Concept Development, Dallas, TX
· Woodland Park Zoo: Family Science Learning Center Concept Development, Seattle, WA
· Toronto Zoo: Children’s Discovery Zone Communications Planning, Thematic Development, Concept Development, Toronto, ON
· Interpretive Center and Trails: MacMillan Provincial Park Communications Planning, Vancouver Island, BC
· Minnesota Zoo Master Planning, Apple Valley, MN
· Vancouver Museum Research and Concept Development, Vancouver, BC
· Kidspace Museum Communications Planning, Concept Development, Pasadena, CA
· San Francisco Zoo Project Organization, Concept Development, San Francisco, CA
· Alaska Islands and Ocean Center Architectural, Interpretation Program, Homer, AK
· Cape Girardeau Nature Center Architecture, Site, and Interpretation Master Planning Cape Girardeau, MO
· The Tech Museum of Innovation Concept Development, San Jose, CA
Zoos and Aquariums
· BC Wildlife Park, Kamloops, BC – 2006
· Woodland Park Zoo: Family Science Learning Center and Zoomazium phases, Seattle, WA – 2006
· Vancouver Aquarium, Vancouver, BC – 2006
· Gorillas in the African Rainforest / Lion Exhibit at Whipsnade Wild Animal Park, London, England – 2004
· Lincoln Park Zoo: Regenstein African Journey, Chicago, IL – 2003
· Victoria Open Range Zoo: Lions Safari, Werribee, Australia – 2002
· Ocean Park: Wave Cove, Hong Kong – 2000
· Myriad Gardens, Oklahoma City, OK – 2000
· Dallas Zoo: Lacerte Family Children’s Zoo, Dallas, TX – 1997
· Jurong Bird Park Nocturnal Pavilion, Singapore – 1996
· Brookfield Zoo: Wonders at the Coast, Chicago, IL – 1994
Interpretive, Visitor and Cultural Centres
· USS Arizona Memorial, Honolulu, HI - Current
· Heritage Park Historical Village, Calgary, AB – Current
· Kodiak Refuge Visitor Center, Kodiak, AK – Current
· Squamish Adventure Centre, Squamish, BC – Current
· Mascot Gold Mine & Snaza’ist Centre, Hedley, BC – Current
· Desert Living Center, Las Vegas, NV – Current
· Canaan Valley Institute, Davis, WV – 2006
· Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre, Osoyoos, BC – 2006
· Dalinor Nature Reserve Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region – 2005
· Stanley Park Nature Interpretive Centre, Vancouver, BC – 2005
· American Memorial Park, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, USA – 2005
· Cape Girardeau Conservation Campus, Cape Girardeau, MO – 2005
· Alaska Islands and Ocean Center, Homer, AK – 2003
· Edmonton International Airport: Patterns in the Landscape, Edmonton, AB – 2003
· Great Rivers Resource Center, St. Louis, MO – 2003
· Las Vegas Springs Preserve, Las Vegas, NV – 2003
· Vancouver Port Corporation, Vancouver, BC – 2003
· Sullivan Mine Interpretive Center, Kimberley, BC – 1998
· Capilano Salmon Interpretive Center, Vancouver, BC – 1999
· Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, GA – 1997
· Wickaninnish Visitor Center, Pacific Rim National Park, BC – 1996
· Gulf of Georgia Cannery, Steveston, BC – 1994
· Sharing Traditions: Aboriginal People of the Commonwealth, Vancouver, BC – 1994
· Rocky Reach Dam Visitor Center, Wenatchee, WA – 1994
· Manning Park Visitor Center, Manning Park, BC – 1988
· The Energeum, Calgary, AB – 1982
Museums
· Museum of the Regiments, Calgary, AB – 2003
· Kidspace Children’s Museum, Pasadena, CA – 2003
· Museum of Discovery and Science, Fort Lauderdale, FL – 2000
· Children's Museum of Richmond, Richmond, VA – 1999
· The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA – 1998
· The Jewish Museum of Western Canada, Winnipeg, MB – 1994
· The Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA – 1988
Science Centres
· Mauna Kea Astronomy Education, Center Hilo, HI – 2006
· Pushpa Gujral Science City, Chandigarh, India – 2004
· The Nature Exchange: Science North, Sudbury, ON – 2000
· Science City at Union Station, Kansas City, MO – 1997
· Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR – 1996
· Northern Freshwater Ecosystems: Science North, Sudbury, ON – 1995
· Dinosaur World Tour for the ExTerra Foundation, Edmonton, AB – 1994
· The Alberta Science Center, Calgary, AB – 1992
Themed Attractions
· EXPO 86 World’s Fair: Expo Center Futures Theatre, Norway Pavilion, Norwegian Explorers Pavilion, Spanish Pavilion, Aviation Theme Plaza, BC Pavilion, Alberta Pavilion, Coquihalla Highway Project, Vancouver, BC – 1986
Articles, Papers and Workshops
· Western AZA Regional Meeting, Vancouver, BC: Workshop Facilitation “New Ideas for Visitor Engagement and Changing Behaviors”, 2006
· Simon Fraser University: ORID Focused Conversations, Dialogue Methodology Showcase, 2005
· SEAZA Conference, Hong Kong: Inspiring Stewardship Through…? with Studio Hanson-Roberts, 2004
· Interpscan: Things that Go Ping, Shock, Amaze and Delight, with Bufo Inc., 2004
· Simon Fraser University: Tools for Implementation in the Urban Design Process, Guest Lecturer, SFU City Program, 2003
· Interpretation Canada Conference, Banff, Canada: The Design of Exhibits for Interpretation, 2001
· Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design: Using Facilitation in Exhibition Design 1999
· Informal Science Review, July/August: Why not let theme parks take over informal education? 1998
· International Zoo Design Conference, Paignton, England: Growing Together with Nature: New Approaches to Meeting the Needs of Young Children in Zoos, 1998
· TiLE Conference, Singapore: Science Centers vs. Theme Parks: What’s the Difference, 1996
· ASTC Conference, Portland: Everything Counts-Serving Up Science Successfully, 1994
· ASTC Conference, Boston: Visitors as Scientists-A Case for Involvement, 1992
· Muse Magazine: The Role of Design in a Museum, 1991Communication Arts:

Samuel Jones

Samuel Jones is a researcher at Demos, a think tank in the UK. His current projects include an investigation into young people's creative production, Making Good Work, and he has recently published As You Like It, a study into the future the English language and its implications for policy-makers. He has also written, Talk Us Into It a pamphlet that reconsiders the role of conversation in the modern world.
Working on the idea of cultural literacy, he has written on the importance of creativity and visual development in young people's education. He is also a co-author of the influential pamphlet, Cultural Diplomacy and has developed work on the international role of cultural organisations. Sam contributed to the Demos collection, Production Values, which features his piece on 'The New Cultural Professionals'. He has spoken at various events on culture, conversations and the English language.
Elsewhere, Sam sits on the UK Executive Board of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). He has also worked with the BBC to investigate TV arts audiences, and has three years experience of brand and consumer consultancy. With this experience, he brings an understanding of people as people and how culture might fit into their lives more generally. He has a double first in History from the University of Cambridge and an MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Nigel Murphy

Nigel Murphy is a sixth-generation New Zealander of Irish-German-English descent and a librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library/National Library of New Zealand. He has studied Chinese New Zealand history for over 20 years and has been involved in the Chinese New Zealand community for nearly as long. He has been secretary of the Wellington Chinese Association and is currently chair of the Wellington Chinese Language School. He has published and lectured widely on the history of the Chinese in New Zealand, and on racism and White New Zealand. His most recent publication Aliens at My Table: Asians as New Zealander see them, co-authored with Manying Ip, was published in 2005.

In 2002 he was seconded to the Office of Ethnic Affairs as a researcher and historian to support the Chinese poll tax apology reconciliation process. One outcome of this process was the National Library exhibition ‘A Barbarous Measure: the Poll Tax and Chinese New Zealanders’ which he curated. The exhibition was held at the National Library in Wellington in 2003 and toured New Zealand between 2004 and 2005.

He has recently completed a Masters of New Zealand Studies, his thesis being ‘Racism and Empire: Discourses of Race and Empire in the Formation of New Zealand’s National Identity 1890-1907’.

Katherine Goodnow

Katherine Goodnow is Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is also a documentary film-maker and has produced a number of individual works and series for the national broadcasters in Norway. Goodnow is Co-series Editor for the UNESCO series Museums and Diversity and has published numerous works on museum content and design.

Jack Lohman

Jack Lohman was appointed Director of the Museum of London Group inAugust 2002.Of Polish origin, Jack Lohman was educated at the University of EastAnglia where he studied Fine Arts. He was awarded a scholarship to readArchitecture at the Freien Univeristat in Berlin and later obtained aMasters degree in Architecture at the University of Manchester. He wenton to win a British Council Fellowship Award to study History of Art atWarsaw University. He received Honorary Doctorate from the University ofWestminster in 2004.Before taking up his present appointment, Jack Lohman was the ChiefExecutive Officer of Iziko Museums of Cape Town, an organizationconsisting of fifteen national museums including the South AfricanMuseum, the South African Maritime Museum and the South African NationalGallery. Here he led the creation of a new museum institution and thetransformation of the national museum sector.Between 1985 and 1994, he worked for English Heritage, developingmuseums and exhibitions both nationally and internationally.Jack Lohman is Professor of Museum Design and Communication at theBergen National Academy of Arts in Norway (since 1995), Chair of ICOM(International Council of Museums) UK (since 2002), Chair of RothschildFoundation Europe (since 2007) and a member of the UK NationalCommission of UNESCO (since 2005). He is a Board Member of Warsaw Museumand Editor-in-Chief of UNESCO's publication series 'Museums andDiversity'.

Beth McKillop

BETH McKILLOP, Keeper, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum


Education

MA (Glasgow) Italian and English, 1972
MA (Cantab) Chinese Studies, 1975
Certificate of Postgraduate Studies (Peking University) (British Council Scholar), 1977
M Sc Information Science, University College, London, 1999-2004

Previous Employment

BBC Monitoring Service, editor, Summary of World Broadcasts, 1978-80

British Library
curator of Chinese , 1980-1990 (collection development, cataloguing, reference work)
curator of Korean, 1985-present
curator of the Samsung Gallery of Korean Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1990-93, (curating a gallery and building a database of the museum’s Korean collection)
exhibitions and loans officer for Oriental Collections, 1996-2004
budget manager, 1995-2004
Head of East Asian Collections, Asian, Pacific and African Collections, 2001-4

London University, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the British Museum
Occasional lecturer ‘Arts of Asia’ courses, on the book history of Korea, 1995-present
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Guide to the British Library's Korean Collection, 1986
China (Great Civilisations series), Franklin Watts, 1988
Translation of "The Graduate" by Lu Wenfu in The Gourmet and Other Stories, Readers International, 1988
Contributor to Dunhuang Manuscripts in British Collections, Sichuan People's Press, China, 1990-95
Travellers' Chinese (phrasebook), Pan Books, 1991
Korean Art and Design, Victoria and Albert Museum Publications, 1992
Korean Material Culture (Papers of the British Association for Korean Studies, 5) 1993 (editor, with G.L Barnes)
‘Books and prints, Korea’ (co-author, The Dictionary of Art, 1996)
‘A Korean Buddhist Illuminated Manuscript’ British Library Journal (24:1) 1998
‘Presentations of odes, gifts of cloth and a banquet in 1809’ in Patrons and Art in Korea, Pak and Whitfield ed. London: Saffron Books, forthcoming Joint editor and contributor for ’North Korean culture and society’ British Museum Research Publication 151, 2004
Contributor, exhibition catalogue, Chinese Printmaking Today. London: British Library, 2004

EXHIBITIONS

V & A Museum, Korean Gallery, 1992
British Museum, 1997 and 2000, substantial sections on books, maps and manuscripts in the Korea Foundation Gallery of Korean Art, permanent display
British Library (King’s Library and St Pancras), exhibits and displays about China, Korea and the Oriental and India Office Collections, including the 1997 photographic exhibition ‘Tomb Paintings of Koguryo’ in the King’s Library, and co-ordination of Oriental and India Office Collection exhibitions in the British Library and at external venues


SELECTED CURRENT PROJECTS

With Professor Fujimoto Yukio, describing and researching early Korean books in the British Library, to produce the first systematic survey of the BL’s Korean holdings, completing in 2007.
Leading the Asian Department’s contribution to a new V & A sculpture gallery project, in the garden galleries, planned for 2008.
Korean ceramics research for the V&A Ceramic Galleries renovation, completing Phase One in 2009.
Editing the exhibition book China Design Now, Victoria and Albert Museum Publications, 2008.

REPRESENTATION

Secretary and past president of the Council of the British Association for Korean Studies
Convenor of the Korea Library Group
Member, British Council-sponsored delegation to libraries and museums in Peking, Chengdu and Kunming, 1982
Council member and secretary, including conference organiser, for the British Association for Chinese Studies, 1985-88
Member of British Museum and Library joint delegations to the DPR Korea, March 2001, May 2002; editor of papers from conferences arising from these visits
Guest lecturer, British Museum Traveller group to Korea, September 2001, and to China, October 2004.

Jane Portal

Jane Portal studied Chinese at Cambridge and then Chinese Archaeology at Beijing University. She has worked in the British Museum since 1987, where she is Assistant Keeper in the Department of Asia, responsible for the Chinese and Korean Collections. She worked on the redisplay of the Hotung Gallery in 1992 and the accompanying British Museum Book of Chinese Art. She then studied Korean at SOAS and Yonsei University, Seoul, gaining a BA Hons in 1996. She curated the Korean Gallery, which opened in 2000 and is now working on the British Museum’s relations with China, including arranging British Museum exhibitions in China and Chinese exhibitions in the British Museum. Her next big project is the First Emperor loan exhibition from Xi’an, opening in September 2007.

Publications:

‘Decorative Arts for Display’ pp 168-211 and ‘Luxuries for Trade’ (with Jessica Rawson) pp 256-292 in Jessica Rawson (ed) The British Museum Book of Chinese Art (London: British Museum Press, 1992). (Winner of the National Art Book Prize in 1993)

‘Korean Celadons of the Koryo Dynasty’ pp 98-103 in I. Freestone and D. Gaimster (eds) Pottery in the Making: Ceramic Traditions (London: British Museum Press, 1997)

Korea: Art and Archaeology (London: British Museum Press, 2000)

Chinese Love Poetry (London: British Museum Press, 2004)

North Korean Culture and Society. British Museum Research Publication 151 (ed, with Beth McKillop) (London: The British Museum, 2004)

Introduction to Qu Lei Lei Chinese Calligraphy. Standard Script for Beginners (London: British Museum Press, 2004)

Art Under Control in North Korea (London: Reaktion Books in association with British Museum Press, 2005); American edition (University of Chicago Press, 2005); Korean edition (Keelsan Books, Seoul, 2005)

Chinese Art in Detail (with Carol Michaelson)(London: British Museum Press 2006)

Forthcoming:

The First Emperor – China’s Terracotta Army (Ed.) (British Museum Press 2007)

Claire Roberts

Claire Roberts is Senior Curator, Asian decorative arts and design at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney and a Research Fellow in the Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. She was educated in Melbourne, and studied Chinese language, painting and art history at the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 1979-81. She has a Master of Arts in Chinese language and art history from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in Chinese art history from the Australian National University. She was curator at the Museum of Chinese-Australian History in Melbourne (1986-1988), and since 1988 has been employed at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum as curator of Asian decorative arts and design.

Claire has written widely on Asian art and material culture and curated many exhibitions. Her projects include The Great Wall of China (2006), Other Histories: Guan Wei's fable for a contemporary world (2006), China, China: recent works in porcelain by Ah Xian (2001), Earth, spirit, fire: Korean masterpieces from the Choson dynasty (2000), Rapt in colour: Korean textiles and costumes of the Choson dynasty (1998), Evolution & Revolution: Chinese dress 1700s to 1990s (1997), In Her View: the photographs of Hedda Morrison in China and Sarawak 1933-67 (1993), and Post Mao Product: New Art from China (1992).

Claire was a curatorial adviser to the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in 1993, 1996 and 1999. She played an active role in the formation of The Asian Arts Society of Australia and is currently a member of the Australia-China Council.