In recent weeks, the Studio has been an obstacle course of plinths, stands and signs in preparation for taking some marvelous projects out into the world to be discovered. REACT’s Objects Sandbox is being showcased at Christie’s and the V&A as part of London Design Week, and Shadowing has been released onto the streets of Bristol.

This week, REACT are showcasing the six IOT projects that have emerged out of their Objects Sandbox Scheme. These six very different projects exploring the Internet of Things have set out to shape new experiences relating to industries as disparate as music, healthcare, archaeology and Doctor Who. The projects will be showcased at Christie’s until 21 September, and their prototypes will be exhibited just around the corner at the V&A as part of their Digital Design Weekend.

Outside the V&A, in the John Madejski Garden, Studio resident Heidi Hinder will be also be exhibiting. Her interactive wearable donations system, entitled Money No Object was partly developed in the Studio while Heidi was on a craft and technology residency here in 2013. The work will be showcased alongside some amazing artists and projects, all of which form part of the V&A Digital Design Weekend, and the London Design Festival. Get yourself up there! There is so much to see. You can browse the full event programme here.

The DCRC have gone to London for the Creative Citizens conference (another London Design Week event!). The conference is exploring how phenomena like creative activism, creative local networking and hyperlocal publishing can bring positive changes to communities, and how social media has redrawn the map for community media, art and design.

All 8 Shadowing streetlights have now been revealed across Bristol. Until the end of October, you’ll be able to leave your shadow for someone else to find a number of places scattered around the city. We have already been hearing some wonderful stories from people who have stumbled across Shadowing. This tweet from Helen Manchester is a good example: “Came across #shadowing last night at Easton underpass- danced with a South American woman and was ranted at by a bloke about surveillance”

The Studio is home to Dorkbot once a month. Most weeks, the mad scientists from Bristol Hackspace bring weird and wonderful contraptions over to be explained, discussed and played about with. This week, Richard Sewell brought ‘Tune on a Stick’, an otherworldly rotating device straight out of the Clangers, which plays different melodies depending on how close people stand to it. Nikki also gave a brilliant presentation about her Colony creatures. This meet-up is open to the public, so if it sounds up your street, come along to the next one at 7pm on 21 October.