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One to One Development Trust is an award-winning arts organisation who use digital technologies to work with communities/organisations producing innovative and immersive creative projects about the environment, heritage and health and wellbeing.

09/04/2026

Back from Pittsburgh's Sona Immersive Storytelling Festival and can reflect on bringing our Revealed projects (Pit Camp, Triptych & Rollerbird) to the US.

The themes of our work resonated strongly with audiences and we were particularly impressed how the work was presented with the Triptych projection being screened in an intimate sound proofed projection space which worked really well.

The VR Lab was excellent with Pit Camp being one of several selected experiences audiences could chose to watch on VR head sets, the team running the VR Lab were super efficient and it had great kit. It was SOLD OUT for all 3 days!

Chloe - our lovable augmented reality canary from the Rollerbird video game made some good impact too with appearances throughout the Festival, selfies with audiences, and also popping up at local heritage sites. It was even suggested by an attendee (with lots of audience support) that we make her into a 'plushie' to help market the game and raise funds.

The best bit of the festival was meeting the other artists, seeing some amazing work and getting to know people from other creative organisations in the city and beyond.

Winning the History and Heritage Storytelling Award was a lovely suprise.

We used the opportunity of being in Pittsburgh to explore the labour history of the area through the mining and steel industries, with meetings with different people and visting lots of places.

Our trip to the Festival was made possible with a travel bursary from Creative Export a funding strand of West Yorkshire Combined Authority supported by the Mayor of West Yorkshire

05/04/2026

We are proud to share that 'Revealed Triptych' has won the Sona Immersive Storytelling Festival 'Award for History and Heritage Storytelling' 🎉🎊

A big thank you to the Sona Festival team in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University for supporting this project from the Yorkshire coalfields and exhibiting all three parts of the project so well - an immersive projection, virtual reality experience and video game.

03/04/2026

Being in Pittsburgh at the Sona Immersive Storytelling Festival with 'Revealed: The Pit Camp' VR experience, 'Triptych' a large-scale projection installation and 'Rollerbird' a video game - all paying homage to the 1984/85 Miners Strike - is really amazing.

We are connecting with American and International audiences who are interested in the stories from the Yorkshire Coalfields about the Strike and its legacy up to date. The support and solidarity is amazing. Pittsburgh built on the steel and coal industries shares a lot of history.

We have met people whose family members were miners, from the US and Russia & Poland. It is humbling to see how the films from our archive including extracts of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign film and With Banners Held High are inspiring and evoking such fantastic responses and encouraging discussions on solidarity, the importance of trade unions, and the legacy of telling stories of communities undergoing social change.

Chloe the canary – the symbol of our project and star of the video game is also a great hit 😊

31/03/2026

We are particularly proud that our 3 interconnected projects commemorating The 1984-1985 Miners Strike are being exhibited at Sona Festival in Pittsburgh, US and we will be presenting the work.

"Experiences exploring heritage and history inspire a new awards category this year. No work in the program makes that case more powerfully than Judi Alston and Andy Campbell’s Revealed series of experiences, including a VR film, installation, and Augmented Reality game. Their work on the British miners’ strikes of 1984 – 1985 period takes us back into memory; it is a rich, textured experience, not just nostalgia for community, for industry, and the union, but a clarion cry to a return of the solidarity that brought people together, to fight for their survival"

Stephan Casper
Director
Sona Immersive Storytelling Festival

27/03/2026

We are delighted to have been awarded a WYCA Unlimited Micro Capital Grant grant for investment into accessible digital equipment that will strengthen our inclusive creative programmes across Wakefield in 2026 and beyond. The new technology, including adaptive gaming controllers, VR headsets, touchscreen display, projection equipment and lightweight filming tools, has been carefully selected to increase participation, creative independence and audience access for disabled artists and participants.

Made possible by an Unlimited Micro Capital Grant thanks to funding by West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

17/03/2026

A really interesting day filming for the Norman Cross Napoleonic Prisoner of War Camp project yesterday.

Norman Cross, just outside Peterborough, is the first known purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp in the world, and our film and digital interpretation project with Nene Park Trust is exploring the significance and legacy of the camp including the beautiful crafts the prisoners produced through bone carving and straw marquetry.

Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery hold a fantastic collection of objects - but we are also interested in the objects that people have collected themselves or been handed down through their families.

Some facinating insights and stories were shared by Stewart Howe (Chair Friends of Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery & Discover Peterborough) and Professor Stephen Upex (Landscape archaeologist, historian, writer)

The project is supported by Historic England and The National Lottery Heritage Fund

05/03/2026

A very productive heritage filming day today - first off getting some beautiful drone shots for The Norman Cross project with Nene Park Trust in Peterborough. The early morning fog evoking a strange atmosphere on the former Napoleonic prisoner of war camp, but a great reveal when the fog lifted showing the new land recently acquired to preserve this important heritage site.
Good to check in with the display boards and their QR Codes linking to the digital interpretation work we did that was launched a few months ago.

In the afternoon we headed over to Taylor's Bellfoundry, Loughborough to do more work on our film and digital installation with Charnwood Arts
As well as filming a bell for a Dubai boat being cast, we interviewed one of the owners, the very interesting and knowledgeable David Potter about the extraordinary history of Taylors.

A fascinating day of bringing heritage alive.

22/02/2026

We are thrilled to share that 'Revealed: Triptych' has been officially selected for SONA Immersive Storytelling Festival in Pittsburgh this April 2026.
Through an international, competitive selection, SONA brings together leading voices in XR, immersive art and digital storytelling and we’re proud to be sharing a project rooted in the legacy of the 1984/85 UK Miners’ Strike at this exciting festival. Our first international and US screening of this project.

Taking 'Revealed: Triptych' to Pittsburgh carries particular resonance. A city shaped by its own industrial and labour history, it provides a powerful context for a story grounded in Britain’s coalfield communities exploring memory, solidarity and working-class resilience through immersive form.

'Revealed: Triptych' unfolds across three experiences:
* Revealed – The Pit Camp (Virtual Reality / 360 film)
* A triptych cinematic screen projection
* Rollerbird (mobile game with Augmented Reality)

We look forward to connecting with fellow artists, technologists and audiences in Pittsburgh and of course Festival Director Stephan Caspar

18/02/2026

Today at WX Wakefield we worked with 11 young people looking at 'content creation' including careers in the sector, user interface design, the importance of branding and in particular focusing on a real life challenge to improve the Wakefield summer s'cool website.

We knew our young creative's would be full of good ideas, but we were very, very impressed at the depth of ideas they had, the level of critical thinking they brought to the task and how they worked as a team.

Once they had formulated their ideas, agreed on a way forward as a team and made sure the ideas were achievable, they had to pitch their proposals to representatives from Creative Wakefield who were also very impressed at the level of detail the group got to in a few hours.

Studio dog Suzi was on hand if anyone wanted a quiet moment out.

17/02/2026

A diverse studio day today at The Art House Wakefield doing an audio dub for a current virtual reality English/Welsh language project launching next week - overseen by Suzi!

And an interview with Sophie Mei Lan Malin and the lovely Athena for the Yorkshire Post about our latest mining heritage film & XR projects - 'The Big K - The Pit that shaped a community' currently in production and 'Revealed - Triptych' which we will be announcing exciting screening news on soon...

And a couple of very good meetings to top off a very productive day.

13/02/2026

On this cold wet day there was no where warmer or better to be than the house of David and Tracey on Warwick Est Knottingley.

Joined by neighbours Sharon and Joyce they shared memories of their families moving in the 1960s from the North East to work at Kellingley Colliery.

Their stories share perfectly that coalmines weren't just places of work, they were the heart of the community and everything was built around them to serve the workforce and their families. The pit shop, pit club, Wallbottle pub, SYD (Scottish, Yorkshire & Durham) Club, health centre, leisure centre and much more... all gone now.

But wonderful hospitality, great banter and sharing of stories is very much still alive in this street.

The Big K - The Pit that shaped a community

Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

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