Heritage & Leisure's Director Martin Cooke has undertaken the Project Co-ordination of this exciting and high profile project with Dorset County Council's Arts Team and the Durlston Rangers. This artist/scientist collaborative project has received funding from Arts Council England, Dorset AONB Partnership through its sustainable Development Fund, Fine Family Foundation and the Jurassic Coast Trust and has the support of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team and the Natural History Museum.

The Project was about exploring the multi-dimensional natural world and the relationships between the elements within it. It encouraged co-operation and partnerships between specialists. The opportunity exists in the 21^st century to take forward the Victorian desire for discovery that is evident at Durlston.  

Artist Abigail Reynolds worked with a Micropaleontologist, Samantha Gibbs from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton and a Mathematician, Björn Sandstede from the University of Surrey to highlight the amazing microscopic story of the rocks in and around Durlston Country Park that form part of the 185 million years of geological time along this World Heritage Site coastline. See the project blog at http://durlstonshapeshift.blogspot.com

There was an exhibition of the project's work during July and August at Durlston Castle with the installation viewed by over 4,500 people.