Peter Bradwell
Researcher
Peter Bradwell is a researcher at Demos. He is interested in the ways that information and knowledge is shared between people, and between people and government...
- James Nachtwey projection: National Theatre, 7pm Today, James Nachtwey breaks his story of a global health crisis through a new set of photographs. As part of his TED wish, he has travelled across the world documenting Extremely Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB). You can see James' photos at the new website, XDRTB.org.We will be projecting the photographs on to the fly tower of the National Theatre this evening (Friday 3rd October) from 7pm, and again tomorrow (Saturday) evening - coinciding with projections across the globe, from New... continue reading on 3rd October 2008 in James Nachtwey's TED Wish to Change The World
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The sheet music hits the fan
Indie 'lifers' Oasis have been causing quite a stir recently. Firstly, because someone assaulted Noel Gallagher on stage in Canada. Someone filmed it, predictably, and popped it up on YouTube.
But secondly, they are giving away a song book free with NME. The scheme has been widely hailed as helping to promote a new generation of musicians, by giving them the tools and encouragement to reinterpret their favourite bands' work. But that very activity is something parts of the music industry have been trying to stamp out... continue reading on 10th September 2008 in Video Republic Comments (2) -
Identity and information
'The Internet was built without a way to know who and what you are connecting to.' - The laws of identity.
Kim Cameron, digital identity 'guru', this week published a simplified version of his 'laws of identity'. continue reading on 22nd August 2008 in For Your Information -
Tube-ing
We're busy writing up the Children of Europa project at the moment. We're really excited about how the pamphlet is shaping up. The launch will be in early September - do get in touch if you'd like to know more.
We've digested a lot of online video over the past 9 months. Yes, there's a lot of nonsense. But there's a lot of cracking content out there. Here's just a couple of videos I've enjoyed: continue reading on 11th August 2008 in Video Republic -
School of winners
Last week, we were delighted to see School of Everything scoop a Catalyst award. The awards honour enterprises whose work enables 'people around them to connect with each other in new ways and do good things', and the School won the 'Self-Help' category.
Big congratulations to the team! continue reading on 28th July 2008 -
Podcast: Hello everybody...Clay Shirky at Demos
We had the pleasure of hosting Clay Shirky in the Demos event space this lunchtime. He was in conversation with Demos associate Paul Miller, talking around the ideas thrown up by his book Here Comes Everybody.
We recorded the event, and you can listen in here. continue reading on 15th July 2008 in Demos Podcasts Comments (2) -
Demos twitters
We're igniting our Twitter account.
Follow us! continue reading on 10th July 2008 -
Getting to know you
Today we are launching our new discussion paper Making the most of collaboration: an international survey of co-design. It sets out the findings from an international survey of 466 public service practitioners.
You can download the paper here. continue reading on 30th June 2008 in Co-Design: barriers and enablers - TechnoPresident? In 2006, David Cameron famously described Gordon Brown as an 'analogue politician in a digital age'. It's an image painted consistently by the opposition - a man out of touch with the pace of change. Whatever the merits of these allusions, a similar dynamic seems to be playing out in the US, between Obama and McCain. That's been picked up in the coverage of this year's Personal Democracy Forum Conference. continue reading on 24th June 2008 in For Your Information
- Video is not killing the video star We're in the midst of accumulating and reflecting on the material we have drawn from the various video workshops for this project. And naturally we're starting to revisit some of the questions we started with around the production and consumption of video. What is its value? What does it give to the people producing the content, or those watching or sharing it? Something that is hovering in front of us is the issue of intellectual property and copyright. continue reading on 27th May 2008 in Video Republic