Rachel Briscoe

Rachel Briscoe is a writer and producer making participatory artworks with interdisciplinary studio Fast Familiar. Fast Familiar combine expertise in narrative design, facilitation and creative coding to make projects which bring groups together to explore questions that are too big or complicated for daily life.

Rachel is fascinated by museums as sites for collectively imagining radical change and Fast Familiar have worked with organisations including NHM, Museum of London, the National Trust, Reading Museums and BMAG to explore playful approaches to the stories that get told.

Rachel Briscoe will be speaking at the Creative Museums Summit 2026 :

Getting creative to go Wild: a case study

Manchester Museum and digital studio Fast Familiar, both award-winners in their field, teamed up to take a creative approach to a final reflective moment for the Wild exhibition. The brief was to create space for audiences to digest some challenging and potentially divisive content… with a short dwell time… while looking stunning… and ideally while finding out what they’d thought of the exhibition. This is a behind-the-scenes look at a creative collaboration which asked audiences to think critically and creatively about what they’d just experienced, and gathered data to inform future programming.