Our Tower Wordless [Public Research Exhibition at Discover Children’s Story Centre, London]

The research shown here was publicly exhibited as a large‑scale installation at the Discover Children’s Story Centre, London, August 2022. Using traditional qualitative research methods, I gathered responses from groups of children who participated in the project. Through workshops and interviews, I explored how they engaged with a pictorial text presented in an unconventional spatially designed format—different from a standard picturebook, though using similar illustrative material.The question prompts encouraged the children to think metacognitively about how they interpreted the images, and how they could work together to build a story. This stage of my research applied elements of an emerging theoretical model to a major practical output. Its aim was to see whether children would read the installation as a narrative text, and if so, which design features helped them to interpret and discuss the story in new ways, through a group reading experience.Johnson, R. (2022) Our tower wordless [Exhibit]. Discover Children’s Story Centre, London. August 2022 - January 2023.Richard Johnson is identified as the copyright owner of this work. The imagery is produced with the permission of Frances Lincoln, Quarto Group.Coelho, J. and Johnson, R. (2022) Our Tower. Frances Lincoln, Quarto Group.© Richard Johnson