New Economics Foundations short series on the history of Neoliberalism. Tim Jacksons Prosperity Without Growth & Kate Radorths lecture introducing her book Doughnut Economics. David Bollier’s very accessible book Think like a Commoner introducing the history and principles of commoning followed by Elinor Ostroms The Future of the Commons. Beth Stratford talk on the housing market.
Held by Stir magazine and facilitated by Bristol’s own Kate Whittle this workshop was a participatory process for exploring how to balance different stake holder interests along co-operative value lines and explore the benefits and obstacles faced by existing MSH co-ops. Kate emphasised that like all co-operative models, co-operative skills are the most essential element of organising in […]
Expediting and visualising data analysis Using Neo4J. Building a node (your data point) and your database: Note: Syntax not case sensitive but labels are. CREATE (n:Node{ id:”ID”,attribute:attribute}) () creating the bubble aka the node CREATE command blindly goes through each line of the csv looking for matches. MERGE command goes through every line and checks if […]
Neon‘s Campaign Fundraising workshop notes. Fundraising through philanthropic foundations application process cycle based on a funder and fundraisers presentations: What you want to do? How far can you get without finding? Plan with a team, people are assets not just beneficiaries. Hope for the best, plan for the worst. Find some one who wants to […]
A Fantastic day long workshop with Ken Eklund (organised by the amazing Jess Linington for the Digital Cultures Research Centre hosted at the Pervasive Media Centre… I’m always wowed by how much INTERESTING one city can hold) where Ken with puppet master skills gamed us into designing and pitching an authentic fiction targeting an ecological issue which we were to […]
Following from the first & second posts about the board design process I got really into detail with getting a quality print, laser etch, window film application as well as polishing the legibility and even the board tile shape… As the laser cutter follows the outline of the vector the shape perfectly, when cut any unjoined […]
Took an amazing workshop learning to build 3D models in Rhino 3D, we even had a chance to run our creations through a 3D printer. I attempted to model one of the ships I carved as the symmetry allowed for a bit of cheating. It took 2 days to get comfortable enough with the software […]
I designed and sculpted the masters from which to make molds for the cast resin ship token used as player pieces in the game Skirmish. I started with paper aeroplanes as the most familiar form and material, probably not the most progressive futuristic choice but, you know, childhood. To get a more solid ship I […]
After the doors on my boat warped beyond staying shut I got to spend a pleasant afternoon with Justin as he taught me to spindle lath and guillotine my self some new ones. The Sapili I had salvaged had a twist in it which make guillotining it to length quite hard but Justine assured me […]
I had a go at t-shirt printing, I’m not that into images on clothes (!) so I ummed and arred about what to draw and decided on some abstract forms which were surprisingly hard to get right. I had to mix the acrylic paint with an acrylic medium at about a 60/40 ratio so that […]
Picking up from the first post where I had figured out a way to marry the functional purpose of the board with a space scene background illustration and was beginning to develop the illustration and game layout to be as if the board is a screen from within the players space ships. To bring about […]
Resin is a (usually liquid) casting plastic which sets in an endothermic reaction to a catalyst. Use acetone to clean from tools or fingers is necessary. For safety… Hair tied up, work overalls on and goggles are essential. All Resin casting must be performed on a tray on the vent units. Catalyst is oxadising so […]
Metals Aluminum – most common ore but requires lots of electricity to extract. It has a very sable oxide and is 2/3 the weight of mild steel. Tig welding only (electric welding with tungsten electrode) Mild Steel – Iron & Carbon 0.025% Medium Carbon Steel – 0.4 – 1.1% carbon. High Carbon Steel – 1.3% carbon. […]
Stephen the games creator provided me with a document with the number, position of places and their content for the laps around. The basic narrative he provided was that the game was set in space and did laps around a giant blue sun where players collected Star Shards to power upgrades to their ships and alter the course of […]
This workshop took us though different process with liquid and powdered enamel. We had the chance to experiment with liquid and powder enamel on both copper and steel. Gloves goggles and a fork must be worn at all times when placing or removing objects from the kiln. Copper: Degrease the object and paint with liquid […]