Participatory Cultural Storytelling

Help children become storytellers of your culture, heritage and place.

We design museum and heritage programmes that transform visits into books, exhibitions and lasting cultural memories.

+50 institutions14 languages+10000 student voices globally
"A scalable cultural participation infrastructure and youth engagement layer for heritage and arts institutions."
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The Participation Loop

One visit. Three chapters of wonder.

We design a continuous arc of engagement that begins before the visit and lives on far after the exit.

01 · Before

Before the Visit

Prepare young minds with story prompts, printable templates, and QR-activated activities sent to schools and families.

  • Story prompts
  • Printable templates
  • QR pre-visit kit
02 · During

During the Visit

Guide curiosity with exploration trails, scavenger missions and on-site capture moments through multimodality.

  • Exploration trails
  • Discovery missions
  • Capture moments
03 · After

After the Visit

Stories become objects: printed books, digital exhibitions, in-venue showcases curated by the museum— children become published authors.

  • Digital books
  • Public showcases
  • Living archives

Books by Young Authors

Real books. Real authors.

A small selection of books written and illustrated by children on our platform — tap any cover to preview.

Solutions

Built for institutions that protect memory.

One adaptable platform, configured to your audience, language and venue. From a single neighbourhood library to a national heritage agency.

Museums & Heritage Sites

Bring permanent collections to life through children's eyes.

  • Family trails tied to gallery objects
  • Co-authored interpretive labels
  • Annual junior curator anthologies

Arts & Cultural Institutions

Programmes that translate exhibitions into stories.

  • Artist-led writing residencies
  • Multilingual exhibition responses
  • Showcases in foyers and online

Libraries & Cultural Centers

Move beyond reading — invite community publishing.

  • Local memory collection drives
  • School holiday story labs
  • Student book displays printed and showcased

Cities & Tourism Destinations

Position your city as a place that listens to its youngest voices.

  • City-wide story trails
  • Enable children to tell their stories while visiting
  • Curate the best children's guide books

Selected Initiatives

Stories shaped with cultural partners.

A few of the named programmes our platform powers — each adapted to its place, language and audience.

Little Pilgrims' Story Journey
Heritage · Madinah

Little Pilgrims' Story Journey

A storytelling and literacy experience for young visitors in Madinah — children authored bilingual chapters inspired by the sites they visited with their families.

Young Storytellers of the Old City
Oral history · Saudi Arabia

Young Storytellers of the Old City

Children documented oral histories from elders, published as a bilingual anthology.

Heritage Through Young Eyes
Museum network · MENA

Heritage Through Young Eyes

A multi-museum programme where children reinterpret artefacts through illustrated short stories.

Coastal heritage · Red Sea

Young Red Sea Explorers

Marine and coastal storytelling expeditions producing children's field journals and exhibitions.

Art to Story
Contemporary art · Riyadh

Art to Story

Each artwork in the biennale became the seed of a child-authored short story, displayed alongside.

National programme

Saudi Through Young Eyes

A nation-wide initiative inviting children from every region to publish what 'home' looks like.

Platform Features

Storytelling Infrastructure to engage your audiences before, while and after the visit.

Your institution. Your content. Your stories.

Your visual identity, fonts, and language at every step.

Multilingual support

RTL-ready. 14 languages, expandable to local dialects.

QR engagement

Tag any object, room, or wall — turn it into a prompt.

Digital + physical publishing

Print-on-demand books, EPUB exports, web exhibits.

Analytics & reporting

Funder-ready dashboards by school, region, demographic.

Exhibition support

Toolkits for foyer displays, opening events, and tours.

Template libraries

Customize book templates based on exhibitions and share with visitors before the visit.

Global Language Support

14 languages, and counting.

Letter and syllable sounds, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech across fourteen languages — fully RTL-ready, and adaptable to local dialects on request.

RTL · LTR · Bilingual books
🇸🇦Arabic
🇬🇧English
🇫🇷French
🇩🇪German
🇪🇸Spanish
🇩🇰Danish
🇸🇪Swedish
🇳🇴Norwegian
🇳🇱Dutch
🇵🇱Polish
🇧🇬Bulgarian
🇹🇷Turkish
🇺🇦Ukrainian
🇷🇺Russian
+ your dialect

Impact & Reporting

Every institution receives a living archive.

Funder-ready dashboards, longitudinal reports, and a cultural record of what your youngest community members made — together.

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student voices globally

Children authored at least one story

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Schools & community groups

Across formal and informal settings

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Institutional partners

Museums, libraries, and city programmes

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Countries reached

From MENA to Southern Europe

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Books in the archive

Living cultural memory, openly accessible

What you can measure

Museum & heritage reporting dimensions.

Students engaged

Unique young authors participating in your programme

Books published

Finished, illustrated stories added to the archive

Schools reached

Partner schools and community groups onboarded

Languages used

Languages children authored in across your programme

Heritage topics explored

Collections, sites, and themes children wrote about

Repeat participation

Returning authors and multi-visit cohorts

Exhibition contributions

Student works featured in physical or digital exhibits

Current Partners

Trusted by leading institutions.

  • Medina Tech logo
  • Madinah Municipality logo

Education Team

Educators, authors and cultural practitioners.

Behind the platform sits a team that has spent careers in classrooms, museums and research literacy programmes.

15+ years in literacy innovation
1 million users — 10,000+ classrooms reached
Award-winning AI assessment
UNICEF recognition
Research projects with universities
Portrait of Babar Baig

Babar Baig

Founder & CEO

+14 years of Education technology experience. GTM strategy advisor for start ups and scale ups. Advisor for preserving cultural and language heritage.

Portrait of Manal Alassaf

Manal Alassaf

Museum Educator

Arabic language specialist with experience in literacy and cultural education. Worked across schools, museums, and cultural institutions.

Portrait of Janus Madsen

Janus Madsen

Education Consultant

Former teacher and award-winning author of learning resources. Developer and project leader of research literacy programmes.

Portrait of Katie Gardner

Katie Gardner

English as a Second Language Teacher

Featured presenter and workshop leader at international learning and technology conferences.

Get in touch

Start a Pilot
Programme.

Tell us about your institution. We'll design a small-scale pilot — one exhibition, one school, one season — to show you what's possible.

"It changed how we think about visitors."

— Curator, National Heritage Foundation

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