The Dome is now enjoying a wonderful second life as a major venue on the Greenwich Peninsular, on the banks of the Thames, in London - it is now known as the O2
I was lucky enough to be part of the whole process of assembling the celebration that was the Millennium Dome for the year 2,000. great memories including sitting around a table discussing what fabric to cover the thing in (the final choice was a white, Teflon coated 25 year fabric). It looked amazing when it was all clean shiny and new!
Our Tesco SchoolNet 2000 project (with pals Bob and Carole at Intuitive Media) was designed to "peak" at the millennium and indeed it became the Guinness Book of Records World's Largest Internet Learning project. TSN2K (as it became known) was showcased in the Dome.
These pages try to capture some of that initial Dome history. Looking back the whole country was very much focussed on a celebration of things past, rather than looking ahead at the remarkable decade to come. Perhaps in the work we did we were, at least in a small part, helping the Dome project to look forwards more than backwards
At any rate, we had a wonderful time. Below is a TSN2K page that linked to the beginning our our work there.
Our TSN2K kids poured into Greenwich to see their work "up in lights" on wonderful custom built stainless steel computers with huge inflatable white winged screens! Just amazing!
early images from the project - an empty Dome - the Dome would house Nelson's Column on end, or the Eiffel Tower on its side - it was huge!
school of the future activities for the Learn Zone - some good ideas here for any festival of learning
our letter asking to buy the Dome - we didn't get chosen, although we came close. Pity - it would have been a wonderful use for the thing.
The party inside on Millennium Eve was pretty good too - with the Queen, the Blairs, and heaps of the great and good - the security scanners at the two underground stations that the celebs all had to arrive from (we came from Stratford station) we working way too slowly - we were early, but I timed folk through and warned the security people it was a disaster but they carried on just as s-l-o-w-l-y and as a result most of the UK's glitterati spent most of the once-in-a-thousand-year evening in a queue underground! We were lucky to be inside the Dome early and I remember the challenge of only 8 of us in a room with 34 cases of vintage champagne. We did our best, but...
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