Everyone loves robots…
August 5, 2008
Posted by Clare in: Events | Innovation | Robots | Add a commentEspecially robots that the Times reports ‘resembles the love child of a monkey and an iMac..’.
Meet Heart Robot, Noel Sharkey, chief judge of Robot Wars and
researchers from Bristol Robotics Laboratory for a glimpse into our
robotic future at the Creative Technology Network event Real Robots on
16 September 2008 at Watershed from. 18:30 – 20:30.
Bristol: Tech City
March 17, 2008
Posted by Clare in: Innovation | Technology | bristol | Add a commentHP Labs entrepreneurial research labs were covered in The Sunday Times yesterday in an article which set out to explore the secret of Labs' cutting edge research and what makes Bristol 'fertile ground for a host of other technology and media
companies'. Read the full article here.
Bristol visits SXSW
March 17, 2008
Posted by Clare in: Innovation | Ideas | Technology | bristol | Add a commentLast week I headed to the South by South West Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, with four other digital agencies from Bristol. The Festival celebrates the creativity and passion behind the coolest new media technologies and featured keynote talks and panel sessions covering everything from web design to bootstrapping to social networks.
Traveling with Mike Bennett of Bristol Media, Benjamin Hostler of Beef, Hazel Grian of Licorice Media and Andy Parkhouse of Team Rubber, our mission was to research new business opportunities, spot emerging digital trends and explore what Bristol can learn from one of the biggest international conferences and festivals of the year.
The hot topics at the Festival were mobile, creativity, collaboration and ARGs (with Hazel of Licorice being recognised across the Festival for her MeiGeist ARG). You can read our blog, which covers general impressions of the Festival and some detailed notes on events, here.
Building collaboration through web 2.0
March 15, 2008
Posted by Clare in: Innovation | Technology | Evaluation | Add a commentEd Mitchell and I have given a few talks recently about how we are using free web 2.0 tools to foster and support collaboration and community building in Media Sandbox. Read Ed's overview of our presentation here.
Watershed at the heart of Creative Britiain
February 22, 2008
Posted by Clare in: Watershed | Innovation | Technology | Add a commentThe Government today published Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy, its Creative Economy action plan in which the future development of, and investment in, Britain’s creative industries is debated. Amongst the many examples of excellence cited was the work of Watershed.
Led by the Department for Media, Culture and Sport, in partnership with The Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform and the Department for Innovation, University and Skill, Creative Britain explores how organisations like Watershed are playing a vital developmental role in the wider creative economy – an economy which contributes £60 billion to the UK economy, employs 1.1 million people and which is growing at twice the rate of the economy as a whole.
The plan highlights several initiatives that have developed from partnerships Watershed has forged to embrace the wider creative and technology communities including MeiGeist, SE3D and the ground-breaking Pervasive Media Studio.
Download the plan: Creative Britain - New Talents for the Economy PDF (1.2mb)
