Storytelling in major projects: The art of communicating archaeology

Summary

Storytelling enables nuclear, transport and other large infrastructure projects to communicate their challenges, progress, and experience. What does this look like in practice?

Everyone loves a great story and in our profession, we are fortunate to have so many to tell. The challenge discussed in this webinar on Thursday 20 October, was how best to pitch that story to the audience. It’s not always a keen local society or a group of school students; sometimes it’s a hard-pressed developer or a client with competing demands. I want to share some of the ways that HS2 and its amazing supply chain has sought to communicate the nature, excitement, and challenges of our works. Helen highlighted examples of current best practice, ways to reach a wide audience and how to help celebrate the benefit that archaeological practice brings in so many ways.

This the first in a joint Nuclear Institute and APM Project Management SIG three-part webinar series on the theme of from Lessons Learned to Shared Knowledge.