I am a big fan of the iShed‘s ‘Media Sandbox‘ programme. I have been lucky enough to facilitate some of their big events, which have been excellent learning opportunities as well as good facilitation excercises. The launch event for Media Sandbox 2009 included an exercise we called ‘Golden rules‘ which is now providing me with [...]
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BBC Learning Unplugged: event report
July 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Events, Facilitation, Technology
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 [...]
Tags:bbc·bristol·design·event·Facilitation·gig·innovation·lab·learning·media·pervasive·unplugged·watershed·workshop
The Five Golden Rules for multi-platform development
December 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Facilitation
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 [...]
Tags:advice·community·conference·design·event·Facilitation·golden·media·mediasandbox·multi-platform·participationpatterns·patterns·rules·sandbox·story·storytelling·watershed·workshop
Wanted: real questions for digital communications innovation lab
November 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Technology
Do you or your organization have a question about how to use digital communication technologies that you would like a room full of experts to workshop for free? Are there people you feel you could engage with in new ways with these new technologies? A campaign you want to support? A service you wish to [...]
Tags:bristol·event·Facilitation·launch·media·mediasandbox·sandbox·Strategy·work
Which Widget for What? Media Sandbox 2008 Report.
November 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Events, Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
Attached is the final report about the facilitation work done with iShed for the Media Sandbox 2008 development scheme. It covers all of our strategic planning, the tools we used, activities we pursued (and chose not to pursue), the lessons we learnt and the metrics we measured by. And there are some handy diagrams. Download [...]
Tags:blended·community·Facilitation·knowledge·lessonslearnt·media·mediasandbox·organisation·report·sandbox·Strategy·web2
igfest review
September 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation
This is a brief personal reflection on igfest, the three day games festival which took place in Central Bristol from 19th to 21st September. I was a voluntary member on the organising team, mentored some of the games, ran a game on the day, and generally helped out. I was immediately drawn to igfest as [...]
Tags:bristol·Events·festival·games·igfest·ished·media·pervasive
Igfest: 19-21 September, Bristol
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Events
If you are wondering what to do on 19-21 September, and can make it to Bristol, come along to igfest. With Simon games and iglab at the core and a group of us volunteers around it, the ‘Interesting Games Festival’ looks like it is going to be fantastic. Igfest website Since meeting at The Media [...]
Tags:bristol·festival·game·games·gaming·igfest·interesting·media·pervasive·simon
Pervasive Media Studio open on Fridays
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Good news; the iShed team are opening the Pervasive Media Studio up on Fridays to anyone who wants to come and work there. It’s a great place to work and there are lots of good people to boot. I’ll be there. Here’s the blurb: Open Studio Fridays iShed have recently taken over the top floor [...]
Media Sandbox final event
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation
We are planning for the final event to wrap up this year’s Media Sandbox commissions and give the community another boost with a physical gathering. For background, you can read about the launch event, and the high level case study about the blended facilitation approach we took to the project as a whole. Suffice to [...]
Tags:community·design·event·Facilitation·media·mediasandbox·pervasive
Media Sandbox case study
March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
(Most of the Media Sandbox projects) Introduction This is high level case study about the blended facilitation work ongoing with the Media Sandbox commissioning scheme managed by iShed. Here is the descriptive blurb: Bringing together leading technology, artistic and media talent, Media Sandbox is a new commissioning scheme to support South West companies/organisations to research [...]
Tags:bristol·event·Facilitation·ished·media·mediasandbox·sandbox·watershed·workshop
