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One element of Edinburgh's Hogmanay festival is often a piece of street theatre designed to capture the audience's imagination, provide a spectacle and some encourage some re-imagining of the city as a cultural, creative space. Some of Edinburgh's...
A trip to Inspace is always a treat ??? they put on a series of events that are broad in their scale, ambition, range and content, yet always intimate. Back in November I went along to an event which was being produced as part of the West Port Book ...
Back in September we welcomed Dr Simon Gage to Edinburgh Napier University, part of a rolling series of public talks by the directors of Edinburgh's foremost festivals and other guest speakers. Simon heads up the Edinburgh International Science Fe...
Here are some notes on two projects I???ve recently been involved with ??? shame on me for not getting this onto the blog before now. On consecutive weekends I attended Culture Hack Scotland (Glasgow) and Citizen Relay training (Edinburgh). From Cultu...
As today's guest lecturer from the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab is unable to join TSM10107 and me (due to a dental emergency not conducive with public speaking) I'm using the blog to plan, set out and run an alternative session. Why shoemake...
It was very good to see a large audience for the 2011 'Digital Audience Development' session at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. Run by Inner Ear Ltd. again on Thursday 4 August, this was the second time I've seen them present ideas and case studies ...
In The Observer on Sunday 12 June, Eli Pariser sets out a vision of the web which is heavily influenced by the information we submit each time we visit a site, carry out a Google search and otherwise give away a little bit more of ourselves and ou...
video platform video management video solutions video player via festivalsedinburgh.com Edinburgh has the best evaluated festivals: yesterday saw the publication of a major impact assessment report on Edinburgh's twelve main festivals (those who m...
via guardian.co.uk This article (click the guardian.co.uk link above) was punted my way by Bob (legendary friend from school days of yore, you remember Bob?). It's an optimistic view of our online future, principally seen from the user's perspecti...
Yesterday was Twestival, in cities across the globe. I've written about my involvement in Edinburgh's Twestival before, so a quick follow up post is in order.First up, here's the event's site: http://edinburgh.twestival.com/The big numbers: over 3...
Inspace, housed within the University of Edinburgh, has hosted a number of events that I've enjoyed over the past year ??? from mushroom-inspired improvised music to film screenings. On Wednesday 23 February I attended an 'openness' discussion: open...
I'm involved in two very interesting projects at the moment and this post is to introduce them both and record where we're up to just now with them.___First up is Edinburgh Twestival 2011. Every year cities around the world put together an event f...
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...
Recently, in the past few weeks, I was informed that I'm a member of the Festival Fringe Society in Edinburgh. There are a couple of hundred members, with varying degrees of contribution to the society and festival it supports, and they are the fo...
6 September has long been nestled at the back of my mind like a cosy cuckoo, waiting to waken up and consume all the time I may have had lying around. 6 September is the date this September's students are due to start at Edinburgh Napier, except o...