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This is Our Playground

For the last 6 months I’ve been working with Alan Hook on a project called ‘This is Our Playground’, a couple of weeks ago we held a Hack Day at the Ulster Museum… Read More →

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Cardboard Cities

Ever wonder what would happen if you left lots of children in a room with lots of cardboard boxes? well, it would look something like this…. Cardboard Cities was an interactive exhibition at the… Read More →

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The Innovative Museum: Part 2

This is my second post on the Museum Computer Group, UK Museums on the Web Conference , you can read part 1 here >> Key Note: Jane Finnis, Culture24 ‘Let’s Get Real: How to Evaluate… Read More →

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Has Alternative Reality Gaming Gone Mainstream?

I was prompted to write this post when I saw my dad playing an ARG this weekend , all thanks to Mercedes new ‘Escape the Map’ campaign. A TV advert (see video below) directs viewers… Read More →

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The innovative museum: Part 1

Ross Parry, outgoing chair of the MCG committee kicked off the day by acknowledging the austere times that we currently face, but also pointed out that the MCG is a forward looking, practical… Read More →

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Amsterdam Museum Night

I’m just back from an ace weekend in Amsterdam, luckily my visit coincided with Museum Nacht. Museum Nacht is annual event which sees 45 museums open to 2.00 am, not only are the museums… Read More →

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Digital Skills Audit

If you really want to embed digital across your organisation then you need more than just your ‘digital’ staff to think digitally. What shocks me is that very few organisations ask their staff… Read More →

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Apps on the high street

The fashion industry has truly embraced digital, from Burberry launching their collection on Twitter to the London Fashion Week Digital Innovation Award examples of innovation can be found from the catwalks to the highstreet. Still waiting on… Read More →

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How about spending your time online more wisely?

Whilst this might be a very patronising advert aimed at job seekers, I do like the challenge it poses: ‘How about spending your time online more wisely?’ It’s a challenge that I would… Read More →

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Guerrilla AR events

Nancy Proctor tweeted a link to this video a while back. It’s a great example of individuals appropriating museum spaces through digital technology. The project also has a nice web page >>

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A platform for innovation and experimentation

A couple of years ago I was selected to take part in a British Council ‘International Young Curator Programme’. As part of the programme I worked in the Northern Ireland Gallery at the Venice… Read More →

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Let’s get Real (Part 2)

In this second post I am going to focus on the ‘Failing Forward’ session, which saw participants in the action research project discuss projects which have failed and what lessons they have learned… Read More →

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