Archive for the ‘Creative Labs’ Category
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 16th, 2006
Today is Thursday, so it must be Oxford.
It's the ninth of thirteen Launch Days for the 2007 Innovation Labs. The agenda for each day is pretty much the same: presentations by Matt Locke and one or more of the BBC commissioners followed by a structured discussion about innovation processes, current ...
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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 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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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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Friday, July 14th, 2006
I was really nervous about this one. I'd expected the tv producers from BBC Comedy to be sceptical, cynical and resistant to structured creative exercises. Some of them had had their arms twisted to participate and at least one arrived at the Spread Eagle distinctly unamused at being made ...
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Monday, July 10th, 2006
Back at the Spread Eagle in Midhurst for the BBC Comedy Lab with a mix of writers, script editors, producers and new media/interactive TV people; some freelance, some BBC staff.
The purpose of the 3 day Lab, commissioned by interactive Drama and Entertainment is to brainstorm ideas for cross-platform interactive comedy ...
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
Looks like the Comedy Lab that we're working on with BBC Interactive Drama and Entertainment will be happening in early July - sometime after the World Cup but before the holidays.
We're going to experiment with a different format from the Innovation Labs earlier this year, inviting individuals instead of teams ...
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Saturday, April 29th, 2006
Marleen Stikker, Director of the Waag Society in Amsterdam was knighted yesterday!
As far as I can work out being invested as a 'ridder' is the equivalent of being awarded the MBE but the Dutch translate it as being made a 'lady-knight'. I've known Marleen since 1991, I think, when she ...
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