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Second community workshop

Wed 2 May, 2012

All six Heritage Sandbox teams gathered together for the second work in progress sharing and community workshop last week. This meeting had a particular focus around audiences, modes of visiting and user experiences.

We kicked proceedings off with a short sharp burst of project updates, sharing progress to date and the concerns each team have looking ahead. Here’s a quick round up, but you can read updates in more detail on each project’s journal too:

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Bringing Properties to Life

Thu 19 Apr, 2012

Designing experiences that will connect audiences with places is at the heart of what the National Trust does. Since I joined the NT 7 years ago I think its fair to say we have developed a richer understanding of these audiences, their interests, motivations, drivers, and barriers.

Posted by Jo Lansdowne
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Heritage Sandbox Starting Out...

Thu 5 Apr, 2012

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Thriving in a sandbox

Mon 2 Apr, 2012

We have just kicked off the first Heritage Sandbox meeting, which is pretty exciting, hearing about the project's plans for the next three months. As part of the introduction, I shared what I thought the manifesto for a flourishing sandbox project might be:

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Commissions announced

Mon 26 Mar, 2012

We are really pleased that today we can finally announce the recipients of Heritage Sandbox. The six projects unlock histories, hauntings and happenings in all kinds of UK heritage attractions, unraveling rich accessible experiences through the use of cutting edge technologies.

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Networking

Mon 19 Dec, 2011

We had a lot of requests from Ideas Lab attendees for a way to discuss ideas online and locate potential partners. In response to this, we've set-up a Heritage Sandbox online network. To work, the network relies on Ideas Lab participants logging in and inputting a few details about areas of research or interests. We hope this will be a useful tool to help people connect. Visit the network here

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Exeter Ideas lab

Tue 6 Dec, 2011

Lots of ideas bubbling up at our first ideas lab in Exeter

Posted by Clare Reddington
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Prompts to help you progress your idea

Tue 22 Nov, 2011

 Our long standing friend and collaborator Seth Honnor is working from Exeter University to help people across the region develop their ideas to submit them to Sandbox. All the REACT team are experiencing a need for researchers to think more about the potential audience/demand for their ideas, so Seth has written up a series of useful prompts for academics thinking of applying:

What is the knowledge you want to transfer?

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We are recruiting...

Tue 18 Oct, 2011

REACT is recruiting two Producers who will play a key role in curating, producing and managing the Sandbox projects, helping to catalyse and support dynamic collaborations between arts and humanities researchers and creative economy partners. For more info visit http://www.watershed.co.uk/ished/get-involved/opportunities/2011-11-11/react-producer/

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Intellectual Property & Confidentiality at Sandbox events

Fri 14 Oct, 2011

iShed's aim is to facilitate a collaborative and supportive environment in which ideas can be shared and developed with trusted colleagues.

Respect for participants' intellectual property and confidential information is a crucial part of this collaboration and so iShed asks all participants to adhere to the following principles when attending the Heritage Sandbox Events:

 

The Sandbox Principles

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