I was a little less than prepared (I blame last weeks knee injury) but I presented at This Happened last night.
We opted for a little bit of tech presentation and I tried to make it as accessible as possible but I did find myself rambling a little bit (during a 10 minute presentation is not a good idea). The audience response was very kind and people asked some great questions. So thank you everyone who attended and listened and for Chris for arranging. Also I forget to thank Petra for all her hard work during the project but the timer was scarily ticking down to zero and I was really quite keen to get finished.
Michael Salmond – had some interesting links to ours in trying to view the city in different ways from a double decker bus and the juxtaposition of ideas of colonialism and cultural diversity.
Paul Rodgers and Ewan Winton – might be of interest to some of our colleagues on the JISC RI funding programme, as it explores the connection between the tools of social media and the actual use in the creative industries.
Anab Jain – her talk was about a project see undertook with 8 people to explore the idea of the future and peoples desires, needs and expectations of the future. It’s a really interesting project exploring the aspirations and consequences of a group designing for the future.
Sarah Drummond and Laurie Currie presented mypolice which is quite simply a really brilliant idea. Allowing anyone to engage with the police in both formal and informal ways using social media. The idea being that people can celebrate interactions with the police where they have had positive experiences, to reinforce good work. It also allows a dialogue when the service has been less than brilliant, allowing people to have a democratic voice to highlight flaws but also get some feedback to hopefully feel they are being listened too. The work came out the Social Innovation Camp in Glasgow, which unites nerds and non nerds to produce interesting work in 48 hrs. It’ll be really interesting to see how they bring the idea to market.