A quick note to highlight some places I’ll be this week, in the hope that you’ll come by and say hello if you happen to be there too…
Tomorrow I’ll be taking part in a workshop event leading up to the btween conference in Manchester. I’m very flattered to find myself invited along to play geek architect of the group. Here’s the premise:
The workshop is the first stage of a project designed for Beacon to develop collaborative proposals for on online service that will map connections between people, place and knowledge, and creative activity across Manchester
A process of scoping, seed idea proposals, selection and development will lead to ideas pitching and final selection of one concept to be commissioned to answer Beacon’s needs effectively
The workshop will generate ideas and questions that will form the heart of a story cube collaboration that will run throughout b.TWEEN 08 on the 19th and 20th June
Story Cubes – a consultation tool developed by Proboscis. I’ve been a fan of their work for a long time so I’m looking forward to meeting the people behind the projects.
On Wednesday I’ll be at Urban Vision North Staffordshire for the last in their series of green design seminars. They’ve decided to end in a slightly more lighthearted way and run a Dragon’s Den style event following a morning design workshop. I’ll be playing one of the dragons alongside 3 others from UVNS, CABE and Open University.
My only concern is that I’ve never actually watched an episode. Are there any catchphrases I need to learn? Colleagues tell me that TV dragons are arrogant and full of themselves. I’m sure I’ll fit right in.
“You come here asking for money, but you don’t even know what your [X] or your [Y] are!” and “I’m out.” are the signature performatives I believe.
Hi, this is going to be a comment about things that I haven’t attended, but I’ve failed to find an email address for you, so hope you don’t mind me abusing the comments of this entry…
I didn’t make it to btween or UVNS, and I didn’t make it to the Extenv workshop either. However, I have been playing with my Arduino to get it to monitor my power usage and (thanks to your delicious link for EEML a while back) have been looking into that too.
Are you interested in what happened at that particular workshop, or in Arduino-y sensor stuff more generally?