Leading reminiscence workshops around creative play today a Coventry Life Festival
It’s time to get our tech-hats on!
With the Open Citizens prototype exhibition now over - the team now have to face the hard task of whittling down the ideas that the people of Coventry have proposed over the last 2 months. There are so many exciting concepts that have been proposed - how can we...
Lots of thought provoking conversation about our City!
It's been great to see people wandering around the Open Citizen exhibition at the CET building over the last 2 weeks - there's been lots of thought provoking conversation about our City, what it would mean to be City of Culture 2021, and how play can create better...
Prototyping more milk frother hacks for our buzzbot raceway workshops this weekend at Godiva
A print hall so BIG you could easily fit a swimming pool (or two) in there!
It's also systems go in the LR camp this week - we've been exploring the bowels of the old Coventry Evening Telegraph building, getting ready for our exhibition opening this Saturday 1st of July! The space is so exciting - there is a boardroom upstairs that's clad in...
From disco bus stops to information posts that give off scents, and everything else in between…
This week has been a whirlwind of workshops - we've been at Drapers Bar & Kitchen (workshops are always better with beer in hand!), shared a pizza with some great guys at The Foyer, experienced a beautiful exhibition of African craft whilst workshopping with the...
A smart bit of tech that challenges social exclusion – now you’re talking our language!
We’ve been hammering the workshops and public consultation this week, hitting the ground running between the popping exhausts and squealing tires at Coventry Motofest. There have been lots of super exciting ideas in response to ‘How can we make Coventry a more...
Some amazing ideas coming out of Open Citizens workshops this week already. Speed responsive rainbow lamp posts, talking solar bins & waterfall disco underpasses
City of Culture…City of Play
The news is out! We’re screaming from the rooftops. We have been selected as Digital Artists in Residence for Coventry’s UK City of Culture 2021 bid.
We’ll be hosting a series of workshops in the next few weeks, working with different community groups to imagine playful interactive artworks that could make the experience of travelling through Coventry a bit more fun. Then this autumn, we’ll be turning a handful of Coventry’s ideas into reality.
Shrunk it down for our tent at #covmotofest talking play in public space for #opencitizens
The people are the city
If the last few years have taught us anything, it should be that democracy is more complicated than asking people a binary question. That creates instability, uncertainty, and a dangerous space where bad ideas rise to the top. We need every citizen to understand issues, interrogate policy, question authority, and find local solutions to global problems. This week, I spent a couple of days working with Ludic Rooms, to look at how their Open Citizens projects start to find ways to create such an enabled, empowered and emboldened citizenship..
Work with us – Creative Internship
Ludic Rooms has an opportunity for a bright, motivated, self-starter to work with us on a major interactive art project taking place across Coventry from June to October 2017. Ludic Rooms is a postdigital organisation that creates art and technology projects that...