Do you or your organization have a question about how to use digital communication technologies that you would like a room full of experts to workshop for free? Are there people you feel you could engage with in new ways with these new technologies? A campaign you want to support? A service you wish to provide? [...]

The next Bristol Skillswap is about user experience, and is in The Pervasive Media Studio on Tuesday 11th December. As well as our very own Joe (the uncle of usability) Leech, we have some experts from further afield as the gig is partnered in with Dan Dixon and Alex Older’s Web Developers Conference. Here’s the blurb: Bristol’s [...]

Katie and Tom and the Frank Water projects crew are looking for a volunteer to help them campaign to bring back public water fountains. Good news! Be done with this ridiculous bottled water nonsense! Here’s the blurb: FRANK Water Projects is looking for a volunteer to help us lead a local campaign to bring back public drinking water [...]

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the multi-disciplinary Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday 17 November, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt. Tim Sheppard, local storytelling group member, will be introducing the subject before we get down to the serious k-cafe business as usual. If you ...

This is a brief personal reflection on igfest, the three day games festival which took place in Central Bristol from 19th to 21st September. I was a voluntary member on the organising team, mentored some of the games, ran a game on the day, and generally helped out. I was immediately drawn to igfest as it [...]

While we all gnash our teeth over Babylon Circus, the new shopping centre in Bristol, let us not forget that there is a wonderful of genuinely engaging, creative and brilliant activities going on in the city. Over the last few months, we’ve seen superb bottom up and/or inclusive activities including Bathcamp, igfest, Bristol Festival, street ...

This is a little post about the good stuff you find on your own street, and the possibilities of bottom-up organisation in the wild. How many times have you said or heard ‘I don’t know my neighbours’, and felt that it just isn’t right? We organised a street party on Sunday 14th September. I highly recommend giving [...]

About 20 of us met up in the Pervasive Media Studio on the 11th September to discuss ‘Engagement’. Jack Martin Leith gave a highly thought provoking 15 minute presentation on the subject covering a range of angles as broad as the history of PR to inter-personal relationships, and how ‘Engagement’ covers so many ...

This sign is on the street down the road from where I live. It was put there by the amazingly admirable People’s Republic of Stoke’s Croft‘. The street is called Stoke’s Croft and is in the middle of a tug of war between a range of ‘redevelopment’ forces - council, property developers, bottom up community folk, ...

If you are wondering what to do on 19-21 September, and can make it to Bristol, come along to igfest. With Simon games and iglab at the core and a group of us volunteers around it, the ‘Interesting Games Festival’ looks like it is going to be fantastic. Igfest website Since meeting at The Media Sandbox launch [...]