The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the exceptionally ethical Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday February 11th, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt as usual.
It will be introduced by Andy Wistreich from Essential Education, who has kindly offered to raise the topic of ‘Ethics’. [...]
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Food project case studies is the first web service to come out of the Transition Web Project. Transition Network Web Co-ordinator Ed Mitchell gives us an outline and invites you to participate.
This is a brief report on our Bristol Knowledge Cafe on ‘Reslience’, kindly introduced by Phillipa Bayley, keenly discussed by about 30 of us, space kindly lent by the ever effervescent Pervasive Media Studio.
Ciaran, Tim, Michael and Philippa kindly wrote up some of their reflections which I include along with my own.
Phillipa gave an excellent [...]
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The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the uber-resilient Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday September 17th, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt as usual.
Our introductory speaker is Philipa Bayley, acting head of the Centre for Public Engagement, Bristol University (and full on neuro-science doctor geek [...]
We’re getting our local Transition initiative, Transition Montpelier, off the ground (have a look at the Transition Towns website or Rob Hopkins blog for an idea about the movement).
We have had two open meetings to date, several small projects under our belts, a range of new ideas and related groups emerging; it’s all good. We [...]
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This is a report on the BBC Learning Unplugged event in Bristol, 26 June 2009.
James Richards (BBC Learning Development) and Myles Runham (BBC Learning) co-hosted the event with Clare Reddington (Ished); I designed and facilitated it with help from Jack Martin Leith. There were approximately 65 attendees, made up of 15 BBC folk and 50 [...]
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Transition Montpelier is a new-ish Transition initiative in my neighbourhood. I am involved and excited.
These things are challenging to get off the ground, but Dan Weisselberg and the other early members are putting a lot of effort and inspiration into it, having already organised a neighbourhood clean up (particularly fine thank you poster), found some [...]
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February’s Bristol Gurteen Knowledge cafe was a heart warming eye in the storm of some very exciting UK winter weather.
Steve Bridger gave us a great presentation around and about the subject of Generosity which left us with plenty to think about, personally, publicly and professionally. And Jesus’ social network, but that’s another story…
After a whistle [...]
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I’m thinking a lot about distributed networks at the moment, decision-making, conversations and how much community ‘platforms’ have moved on.
I’m not sure I even believe in the ‘platform’ concept any more as it so loaded a word with so many centralised implications. As well as this inherited value, so much of our activity is now [...]
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On Monday 15/12 we had the ideas lab launch event for Media Sandbox 2009. I designed and facilitated the event partnered with Victoria Tillotson of iShed overseen by Clare Reddington of iShed.
It was fun. We worked hard and focused and produced some interesting stuff. David Wilcox did some fantastic social reporting, the attendees captured their [...]
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