My Family and Other Objects is a project by our Learning Programme inspired by A Lifelong Passion for Design: Ken Stradling at 100, which tells the story of Ken Stradling’s life and times through 100 objects selected from the Stradling Collection.

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Students from Castle School, Thornbury, The Bristol School of Art and Cardiff School for Art and Design were asked to select something(s) from their own possessions, which they think tells a story about themselves, or their family, culture or community. Using their chosen object as inspiration they have made work that tell the students’ own stories.  The sharing of stories was the most important aspect of the project; young people revealing personal thoughts, feeling and values to others, which was so important after isolation during the Covid lockdown. The project then required them to make something reflecting or expressing those stories.