Archive for the ‘Creative London’ Category
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Children have always loved TV, but the days when passive viewing was their only option are well and truly over. Kids are finding other forms of entertainment and seeking out new platforms to access it. They’re media literate and demanding more sophisticated, interactive content which is fragmenting the market.
So what ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
The Play/Time Lab finished on Friday with seven pitches for games. These ranged from a competition to find the best playground game in the world to a simulation of a totalitarian takeover in the UK following a terrorist attack on London.
A couple of the participants in the Lab have written ...
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
UK Sound TV is a broadband channel set up by Hi8us, the most dynamic media training and production organisation working with young people in England, and Space Studios,. Over the past couple of days I’ve been facilitating a sort of mini lab at the Spread Eagle in Midhurst for the ...
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
We keep being told that the key asset in the knowledge economy is intellectual property: that rights will make you rich. But is making money from IPR a real option? Most companies are rooted in a "gun for hire" business model, selling ideas to clients and brand owners ...
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
The first of the two London launch events for this year's BBC Innovation Labs was held at Zero-One on Monday. Someone from Broadstuff has written a thoughtful post about the day here.
It’s interesting that he describes the session as being a ‘lab’ rather than just an introduction to the ...
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
10 of the projects developed in the pilot series of Innovation Labs are still in development with the BBC. One in three (there were 30 participants in the 2006 programme) is a much higher rate than I'd anticipated. It remains to be seen how many of them will go through ...
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
The second series of BBC Innovation Labs has now been officially launched.
We're doing four this year: one in Scotland, one in London and one each for the North and South of England.
We've set dates for the Launch events where Matt Locke and others from the BBC will explain the new ...
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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
Given that our first meeting was on July 5th, here, the London Games Fringe has been amazingly successful.
It's very difficult to make conferences and festivals in London work as immersive experiences. Cities like Cannes, Edinburgh or Leipzig can seem to be wholly focused on a single event. All the bars, ...
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
The keynote speaker at the Games Summit at the London Games Festival is Shaun Woodward, Minister at the Department of Culture Media and Sport. He makes it clear that the government recognises games as being an important part of the UK’s creative industries. He commits himself to doing what ...
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Pat Kane, author of 'The Play Ethic' is the opening speaker at today's InSync event for the London Games Festival Fringe. He talks about 'play' as being an increasingly appropriate response to and strategy for life in the 21st Century, a move away from the puritan 'work ethic' as a ...
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