Discover What's Possible. Create It Together.
I'm Ian Ravenscroft. Through Green Raven, I work across strategy, innovation, and R&D. From independent reviews and project scoping to creative development and production.
I look at what people actually do, challenge assumptions, and bring teams together across digital, interactive, immersive, creative technology, and audience-focused projects.
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How we can work together.
I draw on experience across production, development, strategy, and consultancy with people like the BBC, Science Museum Group, Arts Council England, creative studios, and cultural and creative programmes.
Understand the opportunities before big decisions.
You need a map before you set off on your journey.
Independent strategic reviews join the dots between evidence, insights, audiences, ambition and practical constraints before recommending routes forward.
Create projects worth investing in.
You have the vision, but have you explored the potential?
Project scoping shapes the purpose, refines the opportunity, improves the brief, and identifies ways to get more from your budgets, projects, programmes, and partners.
Learn by doing to uncover new ideas
You can discover more than you imagine.
I lead discovery and R&D to investigate challenges, develop propositions, and test ideas bringing creative and technical partners together.
Other ways we can work together.
Inside your studio
Good studios don't always have time to develop what's next. I can take on client discovery, new propositions, partnerships or project leadership as a retained or project-based collaborator.
Alongside your programme
I provide mentoring, coaching, and workshops for funded creative businesses on programmes, alongside sector engagement, assessments, and consultancy for funders, bodies, and initiatives.
Some of the work.
Science Museum Group.
A strategic review across four national museums, bringing together interviews, site research, evaluation, and organisational priorities to inform future approaches to technology and visitor experiences.
Manchester Libraries.
Helping shape and scope the Marcus Rashford Wall of Hope project for The Space, from an initial concept through to a commissionable digital experience.
Bloomberg Digital Accelerator.
Strategic advice for immersive and digital change projects dupporting organisations including RSC, Horniman Museum, Compton Verney, Blast Theory, and Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Juice Immersive.
Retained strategy leadership with an immersive studio, helping develop enterprise propositions, partnerships and client projects beyond technology-led pitches.
Notice Lab for original thinking.
Not all my work starts with a commission. Notice Lab is where I develop projects around collective creativity, participation, cultural discovery, and more.
My current projects include:
Magpie: Investigating taste profiles and cultural discovery.
Loop Room: An immersive experience for making music together.
Teem: Exploring how groups share agency when navigating together.
What are you working on?
A challenge, a project, an idea you can't quite shake? You don't need a finished brief to get in touch.
Who I work with.
Creative and
technology studios
Partners looking to investigate new opportunities, develop propositions, create original work or extend their capability without building a larger permanent team.
Arts & culture organisations
Teams with an audience, a venue, a programme, an experience, or technology challenge who need research, creative development and a credible route from ambition to delivery.
Funders, universities, and programmes
Partners funding, supporting, or exploring innovation by developing creative businesses, validating concepts, or bringing research into practical use.
What People Say
"Ian's understanding of the industry coupled with his vast experience as a producer and creator meant he was able to advise and guide us to solutions that otherwise wouldn't have been possible." - Birmingham Royal Ballet
"We were incredibly lucky to work with Ian. His experience, collaborative approach, and technical knowledge were invaluable to our team during the commissioning process, helping us to navigate a completely new area of work with confidence" - Manchester Libraries
"Ian's extensive experience across a wide variety of digital projects and experience in both arts and culture settings, as well as more corporate applications, was invaluable." - FACT Liverpool
Let's find something worth exploring.
You might have a problem that isn't properly understood, an idea that needs developing, or an opportunity that needs the right combination of people. I'm interested in all three. ian@greenraven.co.uk