DESIGN RESEARCH: Doing Design Research 

Location: DESIGN LAB, floor 2, Roland Levinsky Building Workshop leader: Prof. Leon Cruickshank, Chair in Design and Creative Exchange, Director of Research Imagination, Lancaster University. L.Cruickshank@lancaster.ac.uk Design Research Workshop delivered in collaboration with the Message and Design Knowledge Research Groups. Workshop:   Poster Session:  

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£1million for the Market Hall.

£1million for the Market Hall.

The Market Hall development in Devonport, Plymouth, received a significant funding boost today as Chancellor Philip Hammond announced £1million investment for the new ‘digital creative space’ in his Autumn Statement. The sum comes as part of the Treasury’s ‘Cultural Investments’ championed by Arts Council England.

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Colliding Worlds

Colliding Worlds

Cheltenham Science Festival Wed 8 Jun 2016 2:30pm – 3:30pm Helix Theatre. http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science/whats-on/2016/colliding-worlds/ In recent decades, an art movement has emerged that illuminates the latest advances in science. The Science Museum’s Roger Highfield joins science historian Arthur I. Miller, author of Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge

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Scott Fletcher

Scott Fletcher

Graduated Plymouth University with BSc (Hons) MediaLab Arts and Ma Digital Futures. Lectured there for two years while running his first company Limbomedia which was formed to deliver technical expertise in the burgeoning digital art landscape through collaborations, commissions or contract work. After Plymouth moved

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Flying High with Fulldome

Flying High with Fulldome

Our friends at SAT (with some cool video of the EMDL partnership) make the British Airways Highlife in-flight magazine. http://highlife.ba.com/articles/why-montreal-is-a-digital-art-capital/ Why Montreal is a digital art capital…? Cus we were there!

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MEDIACITY 5: 01-03/05/15

MEDIACITY 5: 01-03/05/15

i-DAT partners with the School of Architecture and Design to deliver the: THE FIFTH MEDIACITY CONFERENCE REFLECTS ON A SOCIAL SMART CITY. The conference addresses the approaches and the corresponding design responses that meet the challenges of social, citizen-centred, smart cities and communities. It will

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E/M/D/L workshops in Vienna, February 2015

E/M/D/L workshops in Vienna, February 2015

  We’ll be cultivating fulldome art in Austria in February, thanks to our partnership in an international fulldome network. We will be hosted by the Digital Art Department University of Applied Arts, Vienna, between the 1-12 Feb as the UK partners in the European Union-funded

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Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Conference 2014.

Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Conference 2014.

It is a pleasure to be able to contribute to the Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Conference 2014. Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 9:30 AM – Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 6:00 PM (PST). Johannesburg, South Africa. http://conference.fakugesi.wits.ac.za/ CONFERENCE LOCATIONS & HOTELS WITS ART MUSEUM WITS DIGITAL

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Fulldome UK 2014 success

Fulldome UK 2014 success

A festival of dome media co-founded by i-DAT and staged earlier this month was a resounding success – but there’s work to do to further the medium, according to Professor Mike Phillips. Fulldome UK took place at the National Space Centre in Leicester on November

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Artory

Artory

        The Artory pilot programme was intended to run from 17/01/2015 (iOS and Android Artory Apps were available on from 15/12/2014)for one year, but ended up successfully serving its collaborating culture organisations, their audiences and the City of Plymouth until October 2017.

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