Kieron Gurner,
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has made data collection and personalised experiences synonymous with data misuse and election-rigging – but in app technology, personalisation doesn’t have to be a dirty word. Personalisation offers users and visitors options for how they’d like their content to look, and lets them choose what they…
Digital Placemaking Arts & Culture
Jo Morrison,
In recent years, Calvium has given life to The Lost Palace of Whitehall, explored fashion with The Jewish Museum London and created a family trail for Tower Bridge. Our digital placemaking work beautifully complements the heritage sector in all its guises. So it will come as no surprise that the…
Digital Placemaking Arts & Culture
Jo Morrison,
When Battersea Power Station opened in 1933, London’s first ‘super station’ on the Thames was an immediate London icon. The unique and distinctive chimneys stretched toward the sky, each a pillar to the ingenuity of the designers and architects that developed the site. Battersea was more than just cutting-edge design…
Jo Morrison,
The International Theatre Engineering & Architecture Conference (ITEAC) covers the full spectrum of theatre innovation. This year it is concentrating on the new ways in which performance spaces are developing. Increasingly, both on stage, behind the scenes and in the public realm, theatre teams are creatively blending technology and architecture…
Tom Melamed,
If you went to a restaurant in the South of France where the menu was entirely in French, the waiter spoke no English and you non parles bon Francais, monsieur, you’ll need a translator. This could be an English/French Dictionary, a human translator or, more commonly nowadays, Google Translate. Imagine…
Jo Morrison,
Digital placemaking (noun); The augmentation of physical places with location-specific digital services, products or experiences to create more attractive destinations for all. Successful digital placemaking schemes are designed to reflect the environment and communities they serve – expressing and enhancing the social and cultural value of different places via bespoke…
Jo Morrison,
Relationships between people, places and technology can be explored in a huge number of ways, serving a breadth of sectors. Last month, our Digital Innovation Programme Director Jo Morrison attended three very different events over the course of three days: all of which resonate with the wide-ranging nature and relevance…
Jo Morrison,
In his 2017 London Plan, Mayor Sadiq Khan put culture at the centre of his vision for the capital. As well as promoting London as a true ’24-hour city’ and protecting and promoting the creative sector there, the plan also provides for new Cultural Quarters. These ‘attractive and vibrant areas…
Aerospace & Engineering Mobile Technology
Jo Reid,
Apps have a reputation problem. Mention the word ‘app’ to most people, and they’ll immediately think of Angry Birds, Instagram and Citymapper. What they won’t imagine are major engineering projects and complex machinery speaking to operators via the Internet of Things. Yet this is exactly where many of the most…
Aerospace & Engineering Digital Insights Mobile Technology
Alumni: Charlie Harman,
The fourth Industrial Revolution is here. AI, AR, Machine learning, the IIoT – each, in its own way, promises to change the way businesses of all stripes work. The companies of 10 years’ time will be unrecognisable from those of today. Alongside these precursors to a utopic ‘smart’ future, however,…
Arts & Culture Digital Insights
Alumni: Charlie Harman,
Sacred events like Easter have inspired countless artworks, but for modern viewers, these works can feel distant. The art is beautiful, but much of its meaning is lost. That’s what King’s College London’s Alight app is trying to change. Alight is a collaboration with the National Gallery and Calvium which…
Digital Insights Mobile Technology
Tom Melamed,
Most practical apps are a gateway to the Internet, connecting users to social, media or informational sites. Most apps work best when they have a good Internet or WiFi connection. But when the app has a large directory of information – a supermarket shopping app, for example – poor connectivity…