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Interview with Heath Whitaker - Concept Development Director

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BS in a more general sense, how would you characterise your relationship with the exhibit team now?

HW I used to say that dreaming up stupid ideas and dropping down into lots of trouble. Because I've done the job, and I know the responsibilities for it, and because Darren and I have worked very closely together for a long time, it works. I think as a structure it might not work nearly as well. What I wanted, I mean, with things like the Hub area here, we try to make a bridge between the programmes side of things, which is dynamic and changes very quickly, and the exhibit side where the - investment in R&D is so great, to get an interactive exhibit right that it takes a very long time to do it. So we have the Hub area where you're, you're able to, to put simpler exhibits that maybe require more supervision or more consumables together. The content development role to an extent, has this long distance overview of things. So, so I'm constantly jumping from taking an overview, of the thing to looking at the minutiae of it. Darren has to fill in all the bits in between.