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…
Charlie Harman,
Businesses and organisations have been talking about return on investment (ROI) for so long that it’s often an assumed goal for any commercial project. But what about when the success of a project doesn’t solely come down to the bottom line? Apps in the heritage and regeneration sectors are a…
Jo Morrison,
With a new year rapidly approaching, we’re once again starting to ruminate on the app developments that 2018 will bring. We love a good prediction – and in our humble opinion, we didn’t do badly with our Mystic Meg-style piece from the start of this year. As we predicted, 2017…
App Insights Digital Placemaking Heritage Regeneration
Jo Morrison,
Urban regeneration can be a contentious subject. Differences can arise between those who want areas to remain how they are, and those who want to change them into something fresh. The desire to repurpose human structures is nothing new. Buildings and urban areas have been reinvented for as long as…
App Insights Digital Placemaking Mobile Technology
Kieron Gurner,
Porth Teigr is located in the Roath Basin area of Cardiff Bay, which was once the heart of Cardiff Docklands – the world’s busiest port in the nineteenth century. Today, the area is being redeveloped to include 1,000 new homes, 1.2 million square feet of commercial space and exciting new…
App Insights Digital Placemaking Mobile Technology
Charlie Harman,
From the 10th to the 14th of October 2017, placemakers will descend on Amsterdam for a week of learning, networking, evaluating and exploring. Placemaking Week 2017 is run by the Project for Public Spaces, in partnership with Amsterdam organisations Stipo, The City at Eye Level, and Placemaking Plus. It’s home…
App Insights Engineering Mobile Technology
Tom Melamed,
You may or may not have heard of the Chinese game, Go. All you need to know is that it’s the most complicated game on earth: there are more possible moves in a game of Go than there are atoms in the universe. And in May 2017, Google’s AlphaGo artificial…