Charlie Tims
Associate
Charlie Tims recently co-wrote Video Republic, a look at the social and political significance of internet videos. He is currently involved in producing a part of the TED prize in London.
- carbon neutralizers A few weeks ago Demos published a report with NESTA titled The Disruptors about low-carbon innovation. Low carbon-innovation basically means people and companies who make things that can reduce our production of carbon. It's not necessarily about technological breakthroughs - but more about how technologies can be applied in new ways, so that they are used by people and their benefits are spread through society. The argument being that if we are going to make the transition to a low-carbon... continue reading on 3rd August 2007 in Demos Podcasts The Disrupters
- UNTO THE BEACH! (+sandy podcast) “Am I de only person, who still cannot ber-lieve, dat der is a beach in Bristaaahl!” It’s five o clock on Tuesday afternoon, and as the late afternoon sun bounces up off the Avon, Althea and Donna are shuddering out over the beach. Children enjoying the school holidays are digging holes and and making piles of sand around their parents, twenty-somethings and students are building up in huddles supping beer from plastic cups, pensioners lie back on deck chairs hiding their... continue reading on 26th July 2007 in Demos Podcasts
- Podcast: Innovation, Innovation, Inn.. ov..a...tion.. ahhh. Yawn... 2 reasons why people will be yawning at the launch of the Unlocking Innovation collection tomorrow - 1. It's at 8.30 2. It's about Innovation and people might think they've heard it all before. Well think again, and draw this podcast down your tubes. In it Simon and Sophia Parker, the collection's editors, discuss the themes reflected in the essays - namely that innovation in public services doesn’t come from spanking new computers, policy gurus or erm, for that matter, think tank... continue reading on 9th July 2007 in Demos Podcasts
- Podcast: Collaboration Nation Another Friday, another podcast. This is a Simon Parker, Head of Public Services at Demos, discussing a collection of essays we published in March this year titled the Collaborative State. While competition and choice have been the watchwords in public services of late this collection argues that if we want to sustain improvements into the next decade, then we need a new generation of reform that builds on experiments with collaboration between both different parts of the public sector, and... continue reading on 6th July 2007 in Demos Podcasts
- Second Service Next week is the launch of a collection of essays titled “Unlocking Innovation” about user-driven innovation edited by Simon and Sophia Parker (not related). It seemed like a good time to stream a lecture that Simon gave back in April to a Swedish delegation at Demos, about making public services more democratic. In the lecture Simon gives a thumbnail sketch of the concept of Everyday Democracy and asks whether the private sector is capable of working with these principles. His... continue reading on 4th July 2007
- "Glasgow - we'll set about ye" After the July 7th attacks the internet rearguard came in the form of we are not afraid. In Glasgow it's come in the form of www.johnsweaton.com, a tribute site to the baggage handler who on seeing a burning man attacking a police officer said to himself "what's the score, I've got to get this sorted" and set about the assailant. On the site you can watch his interviews (i'll try and embed one here) - but more importantly you can use paypal to buy him a pint at the Holiday Inn next... continue reading on 3rd July 2007 in Glasgow 2020
- Nanodialogues Podcast We have resuscitated the podcasts. There are now three different types. More about that on the podcast page. In the meantime Jack Stilgoe cranked out another pamphlet this week about the relationship between science and people. Here he is lucidly talking through his public engagement experiments that bought groups of people together with scientists to discuss the implications of nanotechnology. The report argues that public engagement in science means that scientists need to answer difficult... continue reading on 29th June 2007 in Demos Podcasts
- Friday emotional prolapse; Fopp? Please no. It can't be true. The worst week in the history of British Music Retail. First Prince announces that he's bypassing shops altogether by distributing his album for free as a covermount with The Mail on Sunday (the Entertainment Retailers Association condemning this (hilariously) as "an insult to all those record stores who have supported Prince throughout his career"). But now this. An absolute curveball! The legendary Glaswegian purveyor of cheap CDs Fopp, has closed. Yes, that's right... continue reading on 29th June 2007 in Creativity Projects
- more insufferable logo chat I know, i know, i know another blog about that blasted logo, but this post has pictures in it and i can't put them in the comment stream.You’ve probably seen it by now, but there is a rather cruel mock up of the Logo scooting around inboxes at the moment. It spells out the letters s-h-i-t. If this hubris has taught LOCOG anything it’s that holding “Everyone’s Olympics” is not something that can be dictated from a head office. You can’t run a stage managed... continue reading on 6th June 2007 Comments (1)
- "Hi, your name is... Hi, your name is..." Slim/Shady (approach to London Branding) Our 10 ideas for Brown are in the New Statesman at the moment. Somewhere in there is a call for “a more inclusive, less corporate Olympics”. I’m not sure if the current hoo ha being cooked up around the release of the brand for the London Olympics is quite in this spirit. If you want a “sneak preview” of the messages that will attempt to define what London and the UK stands for over the next 10 years you can register for the website and then answer a series of... continue reading on 31st May 2007 in Demos Projects on the 2012 London Olympics Comments (1)