Produced by the Creative Research Assistants at L This showcase celebrates the work of the ORIGIN project. Young co-designers and cultural partners who have explored archives and museums across the UK to create stories that support mental wellbeing.

If you can’t make the opening, don’t worry, the exhibition will be open until Saturday, August 30th at Old Post Hall, Fitzalan Square.

Produced by the Creative Research Assistants at Lab4Living, this exhibition takes you on a journey through the archives to uncover hidden, representative stories for mental health.

Join us for the Beyond the Archives Exhibition Opening Night 🎉 📍 Old Post Hall, Sheffield Hallam University 🗓 Wednesday 27 August 🕔 5PM – 7PM

ORIGIN looks at co-designing an online museum as mental health support for young people. You don't need any prior experience in research, your own lived experience is your expertise. Join up through this survey:

Are you UK-based, 16 - 24 and keen on story-telling, museum, arts and culture? We would love for you to be a Peer Reviewer and tell us what works well with the stories and content being curated for Work Package 4 of the ORIGIN project!

We're proud to be part of that work. 🌈

That's why the ORIGIN Creative Research Team have been working on stories that highlight LGBTQ+ experiences, voices & histories—often overlooked, but never forgotten. Pride is about visibility, but also about listening, learning & making room for stories that need to be told.

🌈 It's Pride Month, & we're taking time to honour LGBTQ+ trailblazers & allies who've made a difference in public health & wellbeing! 🌈 At Lab4Living, we believe that care & creativity go hand in hand, & that everyone's story deserves space. #pridemonth #lab4living #origin

📚 Head on to our website or read the full update here:

New updates from the ORIGIN Programme! Our latest blog post shares exciting updates on story production, co-design workshops, & a behind-the-scenes look at how young people are helping shape the 'digital museum' we've been helping to create over the last eigth months.

To see the needlework she created whilst in workhouse in person was an emotional experience, truly speaking to the importance of both art and museums.

But the best part of the museum for sure was seeing Lorina Bulwer’s embroidery in person. Lorina was incarnated in a workhouse in the late Victorian era and Sophie and Kerry had been working on a story for the ORIGIN programme about her.

They had a great time hunting the museum for stories, including an exhibition on Blood: Ties and Tensions. There were lots of brilliant artefacts in the museum, like a banner in tribute to the NHS and an X-ray machine used in shoe shops in the 1950s!

On Monday, Lab4Living’s Sophie and Kerry paid the Thackeray Museum Medicine a visit as part of researching stories for the ORIGIN project.🏛️🩺

Give us feedback through this survey: https://t.co/xzXQvsTGvO #ORIGIN

We want the online museum to be as engaging and representative as possible. You don’t need any prior experience, only your own lived experience and interest in either research, story-telling, arts and culture, museums or narratology for mental health.

WP4 of the ORIGIN Research Project looks at co-designing an online museum as a mental health support for young people.

We would love for you to be a Peer Reviewer and tell us what works well with the stories, what could be improved and what ideas you have to make the stories more impactful, interesting and representative to young people aged 16-25.

Are you UK-based, 16-24 year & are keen on research, story-telling, arts and culture, museums or narratology? 🗃️🏛️