Category: Public Engagement
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Notwestminster 2017: Remaking a Maker Day
When I started a survey of hackathons as part of the Ardler Inventors project last year, Notwestminster’s Maker Day was the first event I visited. Bringing together a mixed audience of councillors, local government employees, activists, coders and academics together to imagine different futures for local democracy was a perfect fit for our project. Afterwards,…
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Dundee x Mexico City: A Tale of Two Cities
For the last five years, the Small Society Lab has brought together Dundee academics, creatives and members of the public around various topics affecting the small city of the future. It was born of a feeling that small cities and large towns don’t get the attention they deserve, despite a large chunk of the UK…
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Unveiling Sagacity at Edinburgh Science Festival
For the past year or so I’ve been working with Aidan Moseby, Clive Gilman from DCA and my colleague Jon Rogers on a small project for New Media Scotland Alt-w fund. We were one of a number of projects comissioned to complement Ginsberg, a newly-launched app designed to improve health and wellbeing through mood-tracking and self-reflection.…