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…
Posted on Wed 18 Dec 2013
Last Friday, our new residents, Amy Rose and May Abdalla, who together form ANAGRAM, gave a lunchtime talk at the Studio. ANAGRAM is a collaboration formed in order to explore new methods of immersive documentary making. Their current project; Door Into the Dark is at its beginning stages, and Amy…
Posted on Tue 17 Dec 2013
Here at the Studio we’ve been treating ourselves to festive spectacles including SquidSoup’s new light show and Tom McDonagh’s wonderful shadow puppet demonstration. Verity gave a talk at the Wearable Futures Conference in London, and we announce some of the speakers for the No Boundaries…
Posted on Mon 9 Dec 2013
The Christmas Decorations are slowly creeping out of the cupboards as we get ready for the last few weeks in the Studio before the Holiday. Sadly, we have had to say goodbye to our wonderful magicians in Residence, who will be sorely missed. On a happier note, we have welcomed two new residents into…
Posted on Fri 6 Dec 2013
Last Friday, Patrick Stevenson-Keating, founder ofStudio PSK, came to PM Studio to discuss one of his latest projects; Parasitic Products. Studio PSK is made up of a small handful of people who, despite having had formal training, have decided to tread a their own path in the design world. The ethos…
