Tag: hackathons
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CHI 2018: Everybody’s Hacking: Participation and the Mainstreaming of Hackathons
We’ve had two papers accepted into CHI 2018 based on the Ardler Inventors project, the first of which is based on fieldwork at six hackathons. I’ll write about this one first because chronologically it was the first piece of work done on the project, which informed the design of our Inventor Days at later stages. You…
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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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Ardler Inventor Day #1: Getting To Know You
When you’re doing research with communities, the first event is always the most nerve-wracking. You’ve made all the contacts, been to the community festival, dished out a small forest’s worth of flyers and posters, bought plenty of biscuits. But will anyone actually turn up? Repurposing Hackathons for Everyone The Ardler Inventor Days are being run…
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Launching: Hacking for Situated Civic Engagement
In November, we kicked off Hacking for Situated Civic Engagement, a project funded by EPSRC to explore how hackathons can be used to design civic technologies with communities. Over the course of the project, we’ll be running a series of hackathons with the Ardler community in Dundee to identify and attempt to address some local issues with…