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News from the North
2013 is beckoning so it’s a good time for an update from the Greater Manchester team about developments on the project. It’s particularly exciting that we now have Dr Karen Smith in post in SURF, who...
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Manchester Connections
Hello. I’ve got a desk at the SURF office and am starting to make new contacts and think about connecting back with some amazing individuals who have creatively worked in and around Greater Manchester...
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RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 28-30 August 2013
Hello, I just wanted to draw attention to a session a couple of the team are organising as part of the RGS-IBG Conference in London. Please get in touch if you’re interested in taking part whether...
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Multitouch table outputs
One of the planned outputs from the project is a multitouch interface for displaying the project data on large screens/tables. Richard Clay and Russell Beale are leading on this end of the project and...
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City Reflections
We’ve hit the ground running in 2013 within our governance workpackage with interviews, desk research and dialogue. In the last few weeks I’ve had some fascinating discussions and also attended some...
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The cultural value of finding time for research…
Of course, as scholars, we do have other lives/commitments outside of this project. Recently, in my Department here at the University of Birmingham, we’ve had a number of staff move on to other posts....
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Imagining Possibilities Conference
Creative Futures Institute, University of West Scotland, Paisley, 1 March 2013 I haven’t checked in for a while however the project has continued to move at a pace. On Friday I attended a conference...
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Cultural Intermediation’s photostream
Cultural Intermediation’s photostream on Flickr. Imagining Possibilities: group planning and key note speech
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Big Story Interviews
One of the things I’ve been working on alongside Natasha are films of Big Story interviews with key ‘movers and shakers’ from Birmingham’s creative and cultural economy. The aim of the interviews has...
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Connected Communities Showcase
On Tuesday I was at the Connected Communities Showcase event down in London. This was an opportunity for people involved in the exceedingly varied Connected Communities projects to talk to people...
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Project Continuity Day and other meetings
A busy week of workshops in the run up to the Easter break. On Monday myself, Saskia and Kerry were invited to a workshop run by Catherine Durose of INLOGOV here at the University of Birmingham. The...
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The Big Tent Activate Summit, Delhi, India
Organised by Google, The Guardian and MediaGuru. 21 March 2013. In March 2013, I was invited by United Kingdom Trade & Investment to attend a summit on the future of digital and media in India as...
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From Cape Town to London via Leeds and Birmingham
So much for sustainability, I seem to have spent a lot of time recently in transit, one way or another. In March I was fortunate enough to travel to Cape Town with one of SURF’s other streams of work –...
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Laura’s travel diary
The last few weeks have been an exciting, stimulating and educational time for me as I have embarked on the early stages of my PhD journey, quite literally! The first adventure was at the...
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6th Annual Experience the Creative Economy, University of Toronto
18-21st June 2013 I received good news recently. I’ve been selected to take part in a forum for early career scholars who are engaged in research related to the creative economy. The conference hosted...
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Parades, Making and Wellbeing
Last Sunday 2 June saw the fourth Manchester Day Parade animate Manchester City Centre with a striking procession of people and artworks created by community groups, artists and volunteers. Hundreds of...
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Theory, practice and dilemmas
The other day I was at a symposium at Leeds Metropolitan University called ‘Protests as events/Events as protests’, listening to the dilemmas of some academics who are or have been activists and how...
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Reflections on the ECE 6th Conference, University of Toronto, and Artscapes,...
At the end of summer term the academic calendar segues into conference season. First was the ECE 6th Conference at the Martin Prosperity Institute (MPI), University of Toronto from 18-21st June. A...
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Edinburgh Showcase 4 July 2013
Last week the AHRC were running a series of events in Edinburgh as part of the Connected Communities theme. I was there for two of these, a networking day on the Wednesday and the Showcase on the...
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Middleware and open data
Just a quick one. Last week the project multitouch group met to discuss moving forward with the development of the project website and multitouch interface. The upshot of the conversation was that...
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