Posted on Fri 30 May 2014
This week, we’re slowly shuffling to the edges of our seats as we approach the announcement of this year’s Playable City Award winner, the Studio was home to a brilliant discussion about creativity and citizenship, we had a good crop of Studio affiliates speaking at San Francisco’s tech…
Posted on Fri 23 May 2014
Today, the faint sound of tapping feet and harmonious synth is drifting through the Studio, as Guerilla Dance Project’s Laura Kriefman rehearses Kicking the Mic, folding Nth Camera into the mix. Wires and PCBs pile up around Kaspar, who is working on a robot kit for kids, our producers are…
Posted on Fri 23 May 2014
Composer, performer, roboticist and current artist in residence at the Studio, Sarah Angliss gave a fascinating work in progress demo in the Studio last Friday. Her project, Trace, is an exploration of poetic approaches to robotics on stage. She has been working with our Creative Technologist,…
Posted on Thu 22 May 2014
Last Friday, David Coyle, Bristol Univeristy’s Senior Lecturer in Human Computer Ineraction, came to the Studio to talk about his new company Handaxe Limited and their flagship game Pesky gNats. In February of this year, David and Clinical Psychologist Gary O’Reilly set up Handaxe Ltd, a…
Posted on Tue 20 May 2014
On 9 May, Studio residents, Tom Metcalfe, Tim Senior and Simon Moreton gave a lunchtime talk about user experience within the Internet of Things. Designer, Neuroscientist and Geographer by training respectively, Tom, Tim and Simon currently all work as part of REACT, a 4 year AHRC funded initiative…
Posted on Fri 16 May 2014
This week, in the heat of it all, we have carried on shouting from the rooftops about Play Sandbox and this year's Artist Residency, we hosted some brilliant talks given by Studio Residents, and we announced the launch of graphic novel, Indigo Babies.Last Friday, Studio residents Tom Metcalfe, Simon…
Posted on Thu 15 May 2014
Ingigo Babies, a graphic novel which follows the story of a group of youngsters in Bristol, aka the Purple City, has just been published by creative youth network and UWE research partners, South Blessed. The project emerged out of the AHRC and EPSRC funded Creative Citizens research project,…
Posted on Tue 13 May 2014
Molly Price Lunchtime Talk Write-upLast Friday, Molly Price, who recently joined the Studio, gave a lunchtime talk about the potential of smart fabrics, her past work with Jason Bruges Studio and her current work as UK based associate with Diffus Design, a Copenhagen based design company, who…
Posted on Fri 2 May 2014
Last Friday, Studio resident Paul Archer spoke to us about his mischievous mobile games, and trying to blindly find a fit for a business that doesn’t fit. Paul came to the Studio after a world record breaking 15 month round the world taxi expedition, on which he came up with an idea for a business…
Posted on Fri 2 May 2014
We have been showered in surprising and delightful applications to our Playable City Award, and we now have a shortlist! We also observe some lovely projects being soldered/stitched together, and read Victoria’s wonderful blog about the legacy of the Recife: The Playable City cultural exchange.It…
