Category: Blog
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Joseph Wright – A Blacksmith’s Shop
Hannah Fox of Derby Museums gave a wonderful talk last night about the rebirth of the Silk Mill. She showed some of the collection, including this picture from their collection of Joseph Wright works. I couldn’t resist posting it here: such a beautiful image of material, and the heroic maker who works it.
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Loughborough Market Town
I spoke today at an event organised by Loughborough University Arts, as part of their Market Town programme. I promised I’d post my slides, and some useful links, and so here they are. Makerspaces on the High Street There is a great deal of interest in the rise of makerspaces and other sites of autonomous…
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My slides and notes from Made North
Hello Sheffield! If you were at the Made North conference, and want to refer back to anything I said, here are my slides, and a few links for reference.
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Makers, come together
For several years now, I’ve been turning over the idea of a gathering of makers. Not a Maker Faire, that aims to bring new people into the fold, but a coming together of people who are already makers, or who are interested in making as a practice, a progressive movement; an energy that demands critical…
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Speaking at Made North
I’ll be speaking, and on a panel talking about the New Maker Economy, at the Made North Conference on 18 June, which is part of Sheffield Design week.
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Wevolver | Makermap
Nice to see Wevolver using our open data set of UK makerspaces for their Maker map. Source: Wevolver | Makermap
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Nesta Makerspaces research complete
I’m pleased to say the research project I’ve been working on with Nesta is now complete. Together with Hannah Stewart, I’ve been collecting data to build a picture off the state of makerspaces in the UK, and we have published a structured data set under an open Creative Commons licence here, together with a handy…
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From Britain to British Guiana
This is the second of two posts that record stories told by my great grandmother of her life in British Guiana. For an explanation, and background, read the first post. My From Britain to British Guiana Mary Christina Spence A short time ago I told you about my life and experiences in British Guiana, but…
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A life in British Guiana
Trace it back far enough, and my family has – collectively – experienced a huge diversity of living conditions, cultures, events, and geographies. Some of them have been recording these experiences, and others investigating and preserving them.
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Story Making: a talk for the Sandberg @ Mediafund Masterclass
On Saturday, I gave a presentation to participants in the Sandberg Instituut’s “Unmapping Europe” masterclass. As part of this, 16 documentary makers, artists, programmers, researchers and designers work in small teams on innovative projects, and to kick things off, came to Brighton for a ‘sensing weekend’.
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