St Andrew's Day round up of links and events: part 1.
This is my forking moment for the month. A couple of weeks' work on other projects, university business and time spent choosing a dining table has left me with a myriad different ideas, links, articles and events to try and rationalise... they are...
PhD ideas: 25 November 2010
It's a while since I posted an updated 'ideas' file, but there have been distractions since August. There may not even be anything particularly new here, although the file itself remains an important repository for ideas, notes, references and sup...
Silence reigned in EH14.
Alas and alack: snow scuppered my first chance to present my research ideas yesterday. It's St Andrew's Day and the UK is going into stasis, one county at a time. The campus was closed, the classroom's empty, but thankfully the email held up and t...
Please come to my seminar! Monday 29 November.
I've a week to put together an informal seminar about my PhD ideas, building on the more formal written proposal which is also being compiled in the coming days. The first step has been to prepare the following abstract for the seminar - please le...
Events in the connected city (part three): add ingredients and mix.
Sometimes, when I'm delivering a lecture, I start a sentence knowing that I've no idea how I'll finish it. I'd love to say this is game my tricksy mind plays with my weary intellect, though I suspect the truth is somewhat less constructive: a comp...
The RSA: membership organisations; Big Society; ...events?
With the podcast still playing, I want to note this RSA event: The Big Society: Challenges and opportunities for membership organisations. (I wasn't expecting to tag anything with 'Big Society', but as the term gains currency and becomes more clea...
Events in the connected city (part two): claiming space.
A considerable amount of research has been done in recent years to explore the European Capital of Culture initiative. Here's the European Commission's home page for the project. Here's a document setting out 'An international framework of good pr...
Events in the connected city (part one): alt focus.
I'm trying to develop a new driving idea for the PhD, giving it some grounding and possibly a unifying structure: a rallying call, if you will. It's early days, but I'm pondering a shift in focus - from both events and technology to the context in...
VIP Art Fair
via vipartfair.com The internet has the best festivals - arty ones at that. Should you click on the vipartfair.com link above you'll get to the 'VIP Art Fair', which from one angle looks like a shop window for artworks. There's more to it though, ...
RSAnimate: getting that message across.
I'm a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, but I've talked about that before. Why am I a fellow... it's partly to support work like this: The range of expertise that they attract to the RSA events is astonishing at times, tapping into a wealth of ...