Posted on Mon 10 Feb 2014
We are delighted to open our second call for submissions for the Playable City Award 2014. Artists and creatives from around the world are invited to propose new ideas that will challenge the screen-based clichés of a smart city, and respond instead to cities as playable, open, and configurable…
Posted on Thu 6 Feb 2014
Last Friday the Studio hosted a talk about Bitcoin; an online currency that has been attracting comment and debate right across the mainstream media. Sam Phippen came in to explain some of the ins and outs of this peer-to-peer cryptographic system, and to debunk some of the myths surrounding it.
Posted on Fri 31 Jan 2014
We are very excited to announce Being There; a three year EPSRC funded project exploring how cutting-edge robotics can enable people to participate in public spaces, as a place to meet and share ideas. This project will see Watershed partnering with researchers from the Universities of Bath, Exeter,…
Posted on Mon 27 Jan 2014
Things are bubbling under here at the Studio, as we take a moment to catch our breath after part one of Recife: The Playable City and anxiously count mounting votes to ascertain Hello Lamppost’s position in the running for an Internet of Things Award. This week also saw the launch of Calvium’s…
Posted on Thu 23 Jan 2014
At last week’s Lunchtime Talk slot, we were treated to a showcase of the ideas emerging from the first part of Recife: The Playable City, which took place in the Studio over the preceding fortnight. The project is being run in collaboration with Brazilian Technology Park, Porto Digital and the…
Posted on Mon 20 Jan 2014
It has been a busy week in the Studio as the Recife: The Playable City workshop participants sprint through their last week and prepare for their showcase. Read on to find out more:The Recife: The Playable City project is in full swing, and ideas are ricocheting off the walls. A number of mysterious…
Posted on Fri 17 Jan 2014
Drawing on her experience of working as a Producer and New Media Consultant for Channel Four,Hide&Seek and Storythings, Kim Plowright came to the Studio to talk to us about the life cycle of projects - from development to post-release. Kim had been working on web based and 'trans-media projects'…
Posted on Fri 10 Jan 2014
After a quiet Christmas interlude, we have returned to the Studio, which is brimming with ideas and full of wonderful creatives from the UK and Brasil as part of Recife: The Playable City. We are gearing ourselves up for an incredibly busy few months, with members of the iShed team flying out to…
Posted on Mon 23 Dec 2013
It’s been a whirlwind of a year in the Studio - we’ve hosted magicians, makers, programmed installations, run countless workshops, launched awards, supported a kickstarter which is set to launch spacecraft to the moon and saw the first AlphaSphere ship from the Studio. Read on to catch up on the…
Posted on Wed 18 Dec 2013
Last Friday, Tom McDonagh came to the Studio to treat us to a demonstration of his wonderful shadow puppetry. As well as these wonderful visual demonstrations, Tom talked to us about his investigations into how we can combine new technologies with this ancient form of entertainment in order to…
