Posted on Fri 13 Feb 2015
As we get ready to revel in birthday celebrations, we gear up for the 3rd year of the Playable City Award, welcome new residents to the Studio and see David, our Creative Technologist getting stuck into a lot of exciting project-tinkering.Hello Lamp Post went live in Austin Texas yesterday. Pan…
Posted on Fri 6 Feb 2015
From Rainclouds to photo-sharing apps, satellites to mind-controlled beer robots, a plethora of weird and wonderful prototypes were born in the Studio this week…
Posted on Wed 4 Feb 2015
Written by Jess, our projects coordinator at the time, who guest programmed the talk.Last autumn, resident Rosie Poebright introduced the fascinating premise behind the work of Splash & Ripple, who's mission is to make beautiful, genuinely moving experiences that put the participants at the…
Posted on Tue 3 Feb 2015
On 19 December, we were joined by Davy & Kristin McGuire, Sarah Ellis, Matt Hayler and Karin Brown, who gave a Lunchtime Talk about their REACT Prototype funded project, Theatre Book.
Posted on Fri 30 Jan 2015
This week, we catch wind of more stunning work coming from residents Circumstance, we marvel over new iterations of Di Mainstone’s wearable musical devices and ‘bridge dongers’ for the Human Harp project and we raise a congratulatory toast to Chloe Meineck, who has been selected to got to…
Posted on Fri 23 Jan 2015
This week, we have been zipping ourselves into Teleportation Tents and working out how to strike a balance between storytelling and play, we played with prototype robots that had been designed to demystify computing concepts for 13 – 14 year olds, and we were host to a brilliant Urban Interaction…
Posted on Tue 20 Jan 2015
We are on the cusp of a lot of exciting new research this month, as academics prepare to investigate locative media and site-specific history, the neuroscience of taste and the process and benefits of co-developing projects with children. Victoria Forrest has also launched her brilliant Apps for the…
Posted on Mon 19 Jan 2015
On 28 November, Ed Rogers and Steph Tyszka came to the Studio to talk about the recent decline in Braille literacy and their work developing affordable and accessible refreshable Braille devices. Here are a few of the key points I took away.A decline in Braille literacy - Braille is…
Posted on Mon 12 Jan 2015
On 26 September, our Studio Producer Verity McIntosh and Creative Technologist David Haylock gave a brilliant Lunchtime Talk about this year’s Playable City commission, Shadowing. Here are a few key points I took away:That depictions of future ‘Smart Cities’ may have left something out……
Posted on Fri 9 Jan 2015
Plunging into 2015, we are very happy to be joined by some brilliant new people…We are delighted to have two new members of the Studio team. Hilary O’Shaughnessy has joined us in the role of Watershed Producer, and will be Producing the 2015 Playable City Award and some other special projects.
