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...
BANG! CRASH! All change
We love our studio here at the Canal Warehouse but for the last year we’ve had a rather stinky problem. Calling an 18thC warehouse our home certainly has its benefits but around a year ago we discovered that one of our lovely exposed 200 year old brick walls had a problem. A leak…from the canal…into the studio. This has meant heaps of damp, mould and general mankiness. It has taken months of wrangling to get the problem seen to but finally some rather major renovations are taking place.
March and April News
There’s lots going on in LR towers (and beyond) over the coming few weeks:
At the end of March, Dom is travelling to Aarhus in Denmark to present and lead a workshop at CounterPlay, a huge gathering focussed on Playful Cities / Playful Citizens. Dom will be talking about LR’s work including Open Citizens and playtesting a brand new deck of ideation cards that we have developed for a huge soon to be announced project later this year.
Virago LIVES
After a week of late nights and early mornings in the space, our new touring show ‘Virago’, a collaboration with Sonia Sabri Co, opened at mac on Saturday.
This has been a complex creative journey, with a host of technical dilemmas and challenges. We are, however delighted with the final piece.
You can get another chance to see the show at the Wolverhampton Arena on March 29th. Tickets and info here
Beautiful pair of @leafcutterjohn handmade contact mics arrived today
Beautiful pair of @leafcutterjohn handmade contact mics arrived today
Post-interview (with beer
Post-interview (with beer
To tell a story
We’re very excited to announce that we are about to begin work on a new collaboration with Sonia Sabri Company to develop a new touring performance piece for 2017. The show, produced in partnership with The Old Rep, will be an exciting combination of contemporary Kathak and new technologies and will tour nationally after opening in March at mac in Birmingham…
Painting with Light
This weekend we are at the Warwick Arts Centre Family Weekend doing free drop-in workshops with light painting. This is all part of our Random String partnership with the arts centre. We have all sorts of different LED lights for you to get creative with. Come down...
Autumn adventures
This month we are lucky to be travelling all over, meeting new friends and playmates, checking out festivals and events and sharing the work we’ve been doing on the Random String Fellowship programme…
