This week, Anagram won the Tribeca Storyscapes Award, Daredevil Project launched their Duel app on the app store, Hello Lamp Post goes live in Tokyo and we catch up with Nikki Pugh to find out about her recent project, Where the Sky Widens.

We are very proud of residents Amy and May (Anagram), who won the Tribeca Film Festival Storyscapes Award last night. Their immersive documentary, Door Into the Dark was commissioned as one of five Storyscapes interactive installations to be presented at the festival, each chosen for their groundbreaking approach to storytelling and technology. Anagram’s work went down a storm, making its way onto the front page of the NY Times art supplement. Have a look at these articles by PBS, NY Times and The Verge, to find out how festival goers felt when they became lost the labyrinth…

Daredevil Project launched their competitive photo-sharing app, Duel on the App Store today. We have all been playing with it incessantly, from recreating classic album covers to hiding mini bigfoots in pot plants, the app has been a source of playful procrastination for us all! It is a bit new and glitchy still so all feedback will be much appreciated as they can fine-tune it before a full launch to the world in the next few weeks. Contact jon@duel.me with your feedback. Here are a couple of Studio Duels from this week:

Clare is currently in Tokyo with Ben Barker and Sam Hill of PAN, who co-created the 2013 Playable City Award winning project, Hello Lamp Post. The installation, which invites the public to strike up conversations with street furniture, will be installed in the Roppongi district over the course of Roppongi Art Night, an all-night art extravaganza that celebrates the enjoyment of art in everyday living. Playable City is continuing to spread worldwide, and we have just announced that applications for this year’s award have come in from 59 countries across the globe. 

Nikki Pugh returned to the Studio this week to continue developing strands of work that emerged out of the Place Interfaces Lunchtime Talk she gave here in 2013. Her current project, Where the Sky Widens, explores our relationship with distant places. Nikki has been organising day-long workshops, which begin with people cutting, sticking and constructing their own ‘pod’ out of paper. While making, the participants have a chance to discuss their relationship with technology and distant places. By the end of that process, people have a set of coordinates that they programme into the pod. It could be their place of birth, the location of a loved one or somewhere they hope to visit. They take the pod with them on a walk  around the city, when they walk towards their chosen distant place, the pod wobbles in their hands. Nikki spent 4 days walking around the Shropshire hills with her pod, which was programmed with the coordinates of her birthplace. If you are interested in Nikki's explorations of place and navigation, it is well worth looking at the ‘Splacist Manifesto’, a contemporary mode of practice proposed by Paul Conneally and defined by Nikki and Hannah Nicklin.

Resident Kev Kirkland and his company, Data Unity have got through to the final round of Jobs Open Data Challenge, a NESTA and ODI challenge that asks for innovative approaches to creating jobs using Open Data. Data Unity’s project helps people access and visualise the official jobs data from the Office of National Statistics. The next stage is a 'Challenge Weekend' to prepare a presentation for the judges. The winners will receive funding and support to develop their project further.