Spatial Agency is an ongoing research project that aims to shift the of focus of architectural discourse from one that is centred around the design (= building) and making (= technology) of buildings to one where architecture is understood as a situated and embedded praxis conscious of and working with its social, economic and political context.
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute film that takes viewers on a provocative and eye-opening tour of the real costs of our consumer driven culture—from resource extraction to iPod incineration.
PICNIC is a cross-discipline platform for creative conversation and collaboration. It's a unique festival featuring a strategic conference, complimented by hands-on workshops and matchmaking sessions.
BakerTweet is a way for busy bakers to tell the world that something hot and fresh has just come out of the oven. It's as simple as turning the dial and hitting the button. All of the baker's followers get a Twitter alert to tell them that it's bun-time. Or bread time. Or whatever.
Area/Code makes cross-media
games and entertainment.
Area/Code takes advantage of today's environment of pervasive technologies and overlapping media to create new kinds of entertainment.
OpenBusiness is a platform for the exploration and analysis of business trends accelerated by the dis-intermediating power of the Internet. Areas covered range from Open Source Software, Web 2.0, Crowd Sourcing, Co-Creation to Open Innovation.
The London Knowledge Lab is a unique collaboration between two of the UK’s most prominent centres of research – the Institute of Education and Birkbeck. The Lab brings together computer and social scientists from a very broad range of fields.
