Daredevils, Venturefest and the World's First Magic Hack

Posted on Tue 15 Oct 2013

It’s been a spellbinding week in the Studio as we played host to the world’s first Magic Hack, one of our New Talent and Graduate residents started and lots of our lovely Studio residents headed to Venturefest. Read on to find out more:On Monday we were joined by Josh Barnes, a recent graduate…

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Mad Hatters & Daredevils

Posted on Fri 11 Oct 2013

This week we have been preparing to tumble Down The Rabbit Hole for Watershed’s Studio inspired family friendly events, been dazzled at a fantastic Lunchtime Talk by our magicians in residence and are looking forward to the first ever danceroom Spectroscopy Festival! Read on to find out more:As…


Lunchtime Talk: Richard Adams on the Illiterate of the 21st Century

Posted on Mon 7 Oct 2013

Richard Adams, the Senior Academic Program Manager at Microsoft, came to talk to us at the Studio about the future of education in a time where we have a world of information at our fingertips. Due to the vast pool of knowledge that is the Internet, our world is rapidly transforming, and the…


Magicians, Danish Apps and Peruvian Field Recordings

Posted on Thu 3 Oct 2013

It has been a very busy week in the Studio, with an influx of new people and new ideas. We have been getting acquainted with the participants of the Future Documentary Sandbox and their fascinating projects, as well as welcoming our new magicians in residence, Stuart and Kieron. We also have Nan Guo…


Lunchtime Talk: Alex Bentley - 'I’ll Have What She’s Having'

Posted on Fri 27 Sep 2013

On Friday 20 September, Behavioural Scientist, Professor Alex Bentley came to the Studio to talk about his recent research into collective decision making. He and his colleagues have been developing a map of decision-making patterns that helps us to plot out and understand social behavior in an era…

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Brazil, Billboards and Mixed Reality Bugs...

Posted on Wed 25 Sep 2013

Weekly blog - 16/09/2013 - 20/09/2013From selecting the robot design finalists, to meeting our Brazilian Playable City counterparts, this week has been one of preparing for exciting new things. On top of all this, the Studio is getting ready to welcome our resident magicians next week, so we are all…

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Wired Watershed & This Happened

Posted on Fri 20 Sep 2013

It’s been an exciting week in the Studio with Studio residents entering the Guinness Book of Records and speakers confirmed for This Happened – a fantastic series of events focusing on the stories behind interaction design. Read on to find out more: Dan our lovely creative technologist has been…


Job opportunity: Creative Technologist

Posted on Fri 20 Sep 2013

Position: Creative Technologist (Full Time, Permanent)Grade: 3 (£25,000)Responsible to: Head of ICTPurpose of Job:As a member of the ICT team, you will have particular responsibility for providing technical inspiration, collaboration and support to iShed projects and Pervasive Media Studio staff,…


Guest Blog: Sex & History, playing with the past: Lunchtime Talk

Posted on Thu 19 Sep 2013

On 13 of September we were joined in the Studio by Sophie Sampson to give a Lunchtime Talk about her REACT funded project Sex and History: Playing with objects. The following is an extract from the write up she posted on her website – ‘Looking at your own society from outside.’ She has kindly…


Narrative, Nth Screen & Creative Technologist Needed

Posted on Fri 13 Sep 2013

Weekly Blog: 02/09/13 - 06/08/13This week we saw Hello Lamp Post come to a close after a brilliant eight weeks, we’re on the hunt for a fantastic individual to be our new Creative Technologist and we have been preparing to present Submergence; a beautiful light installation by Squidsoup to…