What do you get if you cross social media and arts audiences?
Event linked to the EPSRC Research cluster on Innovative Media for a Digital Economy. This one’s home grown. The second day of my event.
The Innovative Media for Digital Economies research programme is in conjunction with the Oxford University E-Research Centre, the Work Interaction and Technology Group at King’s College, London and the ImaginationLab at Lancaster University
Q: What Do You Get If Your Cross Social Media with Arts Audiences?
A: Find out by joining us for an IMDE workshop on the 16th March 2009 at FACT, in Liverpool. Limited Places, For more information, visit: http://whatdoyougetif.wordpress.com or contact Dr Andy Miah email@andymiah.net
Mobility futures workshop 17th March 2009
MODE: Mobility futures in a Digital Economy
We would like to invite you to attend an ‘imagination lab’ on ‘Mobility futures in a Digital Economy’. The lab is part of the EPSRC Digital Economy funded pilot study MODE (Mobilitiy futures in a digital economy), funded by the EPSRC Innovative Media for a Digital Economy cluster. The aim of the workshop is to generate scenarios for future urban mobility systems and to investigate possible opportunities for further research.
Current debates, and especially Dennis and Urry’s thesis in ‘After the car’ (Polity, forthcoming), suggest that the current automobility system of privately-owned, fossil-fueled vehicles is outdated. Dennis and Urry observe the development of a digital nexus system. We will discuss and generate scenarios around emerging visions for the digital nexus system, exploring a diverse range of issues in terms of what citizens/stakeholders/organisations experience and value. These could include: efficiency, sustainability, cost, safety, comfort and privacy.
The workshop will take place on
Tuesday 17th March 2009, 10:30 – 17:30
Lancaster University
Institute for Advanced Studies, IAS, Meeting Room MR3
The workshop is run by the Centre for Mobilities Research, the mobilities.lab and ImaginationLancaster.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/cemore/
http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/
and part of the IMDE EPSRC Digital Economy cluster
http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research/digital-economy
The scenario generation process will be
- facilitated - with tools and methods from social science, art & design
- inspired – by Kingsley Dennis’ and John Urry’s development of Foresight scenarios in their book ‘After the car’ (particularly their ‘digital nexus’ scenario); technologies and observations of emergent practices in the digital economy; avantgarde art and design approaches
- ‘grounded’ - through ethnographic video and interview data with stakeholders, citizens in, and visitors to Manchester
- post-disciplinary – the lab is designed to not only bring together people with expertise in everyday practice, engineering, IT, art, design, social science, economics, public policy, urban planning, and more; but also to create opportunity, incentives, ‘anchors’ and avenues for ‘deep’ collaboration, connections, and creativity
There is only space for 25 participants. We would highly value IMDE cluster participants’ expertise and would be delighted if you could attend. Please could you let us know by 23 February, by sending an email to
with best wishes
the MODE research team
Monika Buscher, Daniela Sangiorgi, Julien McHardy, Gareth Matthews, Martin Pedersen, James Tomasson
Promoting creative collaboration workshop 19 March 2009
PACT: Promoting Art and creative industries collaboration
We would like to invite you to attend an ‘imagination lab’ on ‘Promoting Art and creative industries collaboration’. The lab is part of the EPSRC Digital Economy funded pilot study PACT ( Promoting Art and creative industries Collaboration), funded by the EPSRC Innovative Media for a Digital Economy cluster. The aim of the workshop is to generate scenarios for the design of environments and ‘climates’ conducive to collaboration across the boundaries of art, craft, community, industry and the academy and to investigate possible opportunities for further research.
Current debates highlight the value of creative enterprise to the UK economy and culture. Synergy between often intrinsically anarchic, experimental, individualistic, intellectually and aesthetically ambitious publicly funded art, commercially oriented creative industries, and creativity in the academy and in the community, seems critical to developing creativity as the engine of economic growth for towns, cities and regions, but it is ill understood. What is the role of the built environment? What kinds of practices, services, infrastructures - ‘climatic’ and cultural conditions are needed? What is the role of digital social technology systems in this process, and particularly in approaches of leading through practice? How can one design and implement technology for improved synergy?
Researchers at Lancaster University are working with the Storey Gallery in Lancaster to investigate collaboration and synergy between publicly-funded arts organisations, commercial creative businesses, and the wider community. The development of the new Storey creative industry centre in Lancaster provides an opportunity for an exemplar study of such activities.
The workshop will take place on
on Thursday 19th March 2009, 10:30 – 17:30
Lancaster University
Venue The Storey, Lancaster
http://www.storeygallery.org.uk/
http://www.lancaster.gov.uk/General.asp?id=SX9452-A780B8E5
The workshop is run by the Centre for Mobilities Research, the mobilities.lab and ImaginationLancaster.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/cemore/
http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/
and part of the IMDE EPSRC Digital Economy cluster
http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research/digital-economy
The scenario generation process will be
- facilitated - with tools and methods from social science, art & design
- inspired – for example, by Douglas and Fremantle’s framework for ‘Leading through Practice’; technologies and observations of emergent practices in the digital economy; avantgarde art and design approaches
- ‘grounded’ - through ethnographic video and interview data with practitioners, stakeholders, citizens in, and visitors to a series of ‘creative hubs’ throughout the UK (e.g. Access Space, Sheffield, Spike Island, Bristol, Salford Media City)
- post-disciplinary – the lab is designed to not only bring together people with expertise in everyday practice, engineering, IT, art, design, social science, economics, public policy, urban planning, and more; but also to create opportunity, incentives, ‘anchors’ and avenues for ‘deep’ collaboration, connections, and creativity
There is only space for 25 participants. We highly value your IMDE participants’ expertise and would be delighted if you could attend. Please could you let us know by 6 March, by replying to
j.southern3@lancaster.ac.uk
with best wishes
The PACT research team
Jen Southern, HyunJoo Lee, Monika Buscher, Daniela Sangiorgi – Lancaster University
John Angus - Storey Gallery, Lancaster
The Innovative Media for the Digital Economy Springboard Event
… will be held:
26th – 27th March, 2009
Commonwealth Club, 25 Northumberland Avenue London WC2N 5AP
Day One:
Welcome
Keynote speaker: Charles Leadbeater
Panel discussion: Social networking technologies and critical practice
Lunch
The IMDE roadmap + Presentations from IMDE funded projects
Next steps
Dinner
Day Two
Presentations of papers for a potential special issue of the Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work
A call for papers to the whole IMDE community will be issued shortly.
The workshop will present the roadmap for research into innovative media. An important focus of the event will be to deepen the discussion about the role and value of innovative media in the digital economy.
Andy Miah
Andy Miah, IMDE Research Cluster participant appeared on Andrew Marr’s Start the Week, talking about the book Human Futures. Listen to the podcast on the Radio 4 website.
Facebook users hit by virus
This news item from the BBC confirms that we aren’t safe from people trying to get hold of our personal details on Facebook and other social networking sites. An interesting and urgent question for us in IMDE: how to design for a secure and sociable system?
