App Insights Mobile Technology
Tom Melamed,
By 2020, the average household will contain 50 devices connected via the Internet of Things (IoT). That’s not just smartphones and laptops: it’s lightbulbs, clothes, even jewellery. For creative technologists like ourselves who work with practical apps like offline directories or manufacturing apps, and experiences for the heritage or regeneration…
Digital Placemaking Regeneration
Jo Morrison,
Urban regeneration – reviving the underused land and decaying structures that appear in many cities – has become an established force in urban environment planning and placemaking. Emerging in the mid-twentieth century and gathering impetus as concerns about greenfield development continue to rise, the trend toward urban regeneration has seen…
Jo Morrison,
Last weekend was all about playful exploration at Exeter’s beautiful Royal Albert Memorial Museum. Calvium’s Jo Morrison joined the museum’s Rick Lawrence and Sophia as a GameJam mentor to students from the Games Development and Design course at nearby Exeter College. The students have been challenged to make video games…
Digital Placemaking Regeneration
Jo Morrison,
Like ‘smart cities’ and the ‘Internet of Things’ there are multiple ways in which digital placemaking can be interpreted and explained. As digital placemaking is central to what we do, we thought it important to present our own brief definition of the phrase and practice: Digital placemaking (noun); The augmentation…
Digital Placemaking Regeneration
Jo Morrison,
Digital placemaking has the power to make a physical space come alive in a way that nothing else can. The past can be brought to life, the future can appear before your eyes or you might even find yourself holding a beating human heart in the present. So what does…
Digital Placemaking Heritage Research
Jo Morrison,
The concept of placemaking is not a new one. From the 1960s, the pioneering Project for Public Spaces have focussed on making urban spaces accessible, interactive and inviting for the public. Fifty years on, placemaking projects of all kinds are visible across most urban landscapes, from outdoor pianos and giant…
App Insights Digital Placemaking Regeneration
Jo Morrison,
BT’s chief marketing officer Zaid Al-Qassab caused a stir recently when he drew a line under ‘digital’. “Stop using the word digital,” he implored at an Advertising Week Europe panel; pointing out that when he worked in print he was never referred to as a “paper marketer”. To Al-Qassab, the…
App Insights Mobile Technology
Charlie Harman,
Here’s the thing about designing an app experience: it could end up a perfect little pudding or a saggy old Christmas jumper. And while no two experiences are exactly the same, there are some common UX and design factors that can help or hinder visitors to a heritage site. What…
App Insights Digital Placemaking Mobile Technology Regeneration
Jo Morrison,
A 2016 report by the UN forecast that by 2030, 60 per cent of people globally will be housed in urban areas. One in every three people will live in cities with at least half a million inhabitants. With the increasing strain on infrastructure that this mass urban migration will…
Digital Placemaking Regeneration Research
Calvium Team,
We are thrilled to be releasing our report following a 6 month research project into Digital Placemaking in the Porth Teigr redevelopment in Cardiff Bay. Porth Teigr was once the heart of Cardiff Docklands – the world’s busiest port in the nineteenth century. Today, the area is being redeveloped…
App Insights Digital Placemaking Heritage Mobile Technology
Jo Morrison,
Fundamentally, the cultural heritage sector’s role is to tell stories. These stories could be historical, they could be artistic, they could be sociological, psychological, modern or ancient. Whatever the experience, the story is central. Up to now, these stories have been somewhat passive – an exhibition, or a tour with…
Charlie Harman,
What do we do 2,617 times a day? According to a study by research company dscout, that’s the number of times we touch our phones on average, every day. We all recognise the familiar itch. Waiting for a bus? Check your Facebook notifications. Stuck in a traffic jam? Idly scroll…