In this talk, Studio Residents Lily Green & Tim Kindberg will be talking us through how their project Grapevine works, how you can get involved and some insight into the process of transforming an R&D project into an inclusive company.

Got a way with words? How might you bring your unique wordsmithery to the world if you tell stories in local languages, or write songs with your family history, or your marginal experience isn’t “on trend”? Print publishing can seem exclusive and expensive. Self-publishing online can seem like a black hole of content. What if there was an inclusive infrastructure that could host quality writing, storytelling, comedy, poetry, music and more both digitally and physically?

Enter Grapevine, a new set of tools for creative and inclusive content distribution developed by Lily And Tim. Grapevine enables storytellers to connect digital audio with physical artwork which listeners unlock and share through some of the world's most popular apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal and Telegram. Posters, murals, postcards, billboards, photographs and textiles become your new book covers.

If you’d like a demo of the first ever Grapevine prototype, please fill in this Survey and the Grapevine team will send you a Grapevine-enabled postcard to try out.

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