Partners & collaborators
Cradle of English works with media, technology, education, and cultural partners to capture, show, and tell the stories of historic London.
SOJEN
Narrative AI
SOJEN is an AI-powered world-building platform. With Cradle it is shaping Immersive London: a digital hub that turns 3D scans into interactive walkthroughs, with Guildhall 3D as the first spatial backbone.
Read more →Europeana
Digital heritage
The Guildhall 3D model is the first UK 3D cultural-heritage object harvested by Europeana in the post-Brexit era — a guest contribution to the European Commission’s TwinIt! campaign and the EUreka3D data hub.
Read more →The Spatial Heritage Review
Media partner
The Spatial Heritage Review, published by Thomas Flynn, is Cradle’s media partner for Guildhall 3D — documenting how the Great Hall was captured, annotated, and published as open-access heritage.
Read more →The Open University
Education
Cradle and Thomas Flynn took Guildhall 3D into the Open University’s virtual-production studios at Milton Keynes — Unreal Engine, green screen, LED volume stages, and 4D volumetric capture — to test the scan as an educational asset, not only an online model.
Read more →Teleport by Varjo
3D reconstruction
Teleport is Varjo’s cloud pipeline for automatic 3D Gaussian Splatting. Cradle used it to reconstruct the Great Hall of London’s Guildhall from more than 100GB of photographs — a high-fidelity splat in under a day, without tying up a local GPU.
Read more →Dr Johnson’s House
Fleet Street
Dr Johnson’s House is the surviving eighteenth-century townhouse at 17 Gough Square, just off Fleet Street, where Samuel Johnson compiled his Dictionary of the English Language. It is an outstanding address in the neighbourhood Cradle exists to celebrate.
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