Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre has been selected by Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), through the Department for Culture, Media & Sport’s Create Growth Programme, to deliver ‘A 3D-5D Learning Revolution: Sculpture as a Tool for Wider Learning’ - a nationally significant Industrial Research project that will prototype a new model of STEAM education rooted in Coventry and Nuneaton, North Warwickshire.

The programme, which began in Autumn 2025, will run until March 2026 and bring together three schools, Coundon Court (Coventry), Keresley Grange (Coventry), and Camp Hill (Nuneaton, North Warwickshire), delivered in close collaboration with The Futures Trust, Pangaea’s major education partner for this research phase. The programme is further supported by industry collaborators including Shining3D, Penta Patterns, Marchant Cain, and a wider ecosystem of universities and education specialists.

Working collaboratively with teachers, pupils and artist-educators, the programme will test how sculpture-led, cross-curricular learning can connect creativity, sustainability and emerging technologies such as AI, VR and 3D scanning.

Lucy Tomlins, Founding Director of Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre, said: “We’re delighted to be working with Innovate UK on this next phase of development. Sculpture provides a uniquely powerful bridge between creative thinking, engineering, sustainability and digital innovation. By co-designing with schools and industry partners here in Coventry & Warwickshire, we’re creating a model that is grounded, inclusive and ready for national scale.”

Building on earlier pilots in Coventry, Hinckley and Warwickshire - praised by Ofsted as “innovative and impactful” - this phase will:

• Prototype three modular STEAM schemes of work adaptable to different school contexts.

• Develop two national CPD pathways for artist-educators: 
  1) specialist training to deliver in schools, and
  2) mixed-reality making using hybrid analogue - digital sculpture tools.

• Deliver embedded artist residencies in local schools.

• Produce a full suite of delivery toolkits, evaluation data and market-ready models for wider roll-out.

Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre continues to work with The Futures Trust and regional partners to secure the final match funding that will enable full delivery.