Archive for the ‘Creative Techniques’ Category
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
We're now looking for participants for this year's Crossover programme.
Crossover is an extraordinary series of ‘innovation labs’ for creative professionals from a diverse range of backgrounds: game developers, tv and film producers, web designers, animators, theatre practitioners and others. Each Crossover lab is an immersive, five day incubator fostering new ...
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
The Content 360 pitching competition at Milia had much in common with the BBC Innovation Labs: some of the same commissioners, some of the same briefs and even some of the same companies. And Matt Marsh of First Hand Experience, one of the Lab mentors, joined me to give some ...
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Saturday, March 31st, 2007
The extended labathon, which started with the Hi8us/UK Sound TV workshop in January, finally ended yesterday where it had started in at the Spread Eagle in Midhurst. The 10 companies selected for the BBC’s Southern England Innovation Lab pitching to BBC commissioners yesterday.
Taken collectively they were the most engaging, creatively ...
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Saturday, March 24th, 2007
One of the major challenges for mentors on this week’s BBC Innovation Lab has been to get some of the participants to ‘kill their darlings’.
The ten teams for the Lab were selected on the basis of proposals submitted in response to a set of briefs from the BBC. Two people ...
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
This year’s sequence of BBC Innovation Labs started at Forest Hills Hotel, north of Glasgow, last week - 4 days after the end of Crossover in Adelaide. From temperatures of over 40 in the Australian summer to three inches of snow in the Trossachs.
The Scottish Lab included teams who were ...
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
There has been a lot of very positive feedback about Crossover from the participants. Michael Cordell described it as “one of the most enjoyable creative and learning experiences I've ever had”. But there were times during the week when there was considerable scepticism about the value of the techniques ...
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
A couple of accounts of the Lab process. One was sent by David Kousemaker, one of the winners from last week's Mediaguild Lab. The other is about the last of the BBC Innovation Labs, a post by Rik Abel from Headshift I've only just come across.
This is what David found ...
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
The run of launch events for the BBC Labs has been interrupted by a week in Amsterdam where I was directing an Innovation Lab for the Media Guild. The event is described by Esther Weltevrede here. A prize of €10,000 was on offer for the winning project pitched on the ...
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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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Friday, October 27th, 2006
At the first of the BBC Innovation Lab Launch Days in Brighton yesterday, we used a version of 'appreciative inquiry' to explore factors which contribute to innovation. I did the same thing in collaboration with the philosopher Humberto Schwab at the workshop for the opening of the Media Guild last ...
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