About
Community-driven digital archiving
Things+Time is a grassroots artist-run initiative that facilitates memory-keeping by providing 3D scanning services and tools for community use. Our mission is to democratize archiving and preserve cultural histories that might disappear in the near future.
Founded in 2021 with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the project emerged as a care-based artistic response to the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the accelerating loss of places and objects that hold importance in our lives. We seek to center anti-colonial and accessible practices while empowering regular folks to self-archive and preserve their cultural legacies digitally.
Things+Time facilitates the creative, community, and archival use of 3D scanning, a technology that has become increasingly accessible through mobile devices and scanning applications. Through our platform and services, we help artists, organizations, and communities document spaces, objects, and stories in interactive digital forms.
We are based in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal.
What We Do
Our web platform allows users to upload 3D scans and transform them into rich multimedia storytelling environments by adding annotations such as text, audio, video, images, map points, and external links to scanned objects and spaces.
Alongside the platform itself, we offer tailored services that support artists, communities, organizations, and institutions. A core part of our long-term vision is to sustain accessible and community-oriented archival initiatives, including the future development of free services such as emergency archival support. Visit Services to learn about our current services.