We are working towards a world with equitable access to knowledge, where thoughtful tools and interventions help us play with complexity and make better decisions, and environmental and social issues are centred and addressed with careful urgency. WHAT'S NEW
WANT TO WORK TOGETHER?

If you'd like to work together, get in touch. There are lots of ways we can help:

  • Research project collaborations. We love coming up with new ideas to show you what’s possible, or we can help make your own idea reality. We work across all sorts of disciplines and help write the grant applications. Usually these projects are with universities in the UK and EU.
  • Commissions. We take commissions - this is where you already have a fairly good idea what you need help with and you might already have the funding in place. Usually these projects are for museums, charities, and universities.
  • Fellowships. We are the host organisation for a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, for example.
  • Teaching. We do guest teaching for universities all around the world.
  • Other project bids. We can lead or collaborate on projects that aren't research based, for example for Arts Council and National Lottery calls, and can support people to put their bids in.

These are some of things we do: Citizen science, community technology, participatory science and technology (including facilitation), game design, decision support tools, software, hardware, data visualisation, design, public engagement, research impact, civic involvement, open science/data, appropriate technology.

OUR CURRENT PROJECTS

Viruscraft

Viruscraft is a research project combining tangible interfaces, craft and computer games to explore how viruses jump from one host species to another, working with Dr. Ben Longdon and Dr. Ben Ashby.

(Algo|Afro)futures

(Afro|Algo)futures is a mentoring programme for early career Black artists who want to explore the creative potential of live coding.

Climate and Health Tool

We're working with the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, Cornwall Council, the NHS and emergency services to design a prototype tool to show climate change forecasts together wit…

The Great Bower Building Experiment

Bower birds are known for building ornate and impressive structures. We're running an experiment to see how people would build these bowers, given limited materials.

Mongoose Game

Together with researchers in the Banded Mongoose Research Project, we're making an online game to understand sociality and cooperation in mongooses.

Penelope

How can we make tools that help understand the ancient weaver's mind? How she calculated and solved the first recorded mathematical proofs, embedding them in pattern. How do certain forms of tec…

The Evidence Support Initiative

Placements for science researchers on local councils, to help provide evidence for decision making.

Tidalcycles

A mini-language for live coding pattern, Tidalcycles is for making music (among other patterned experiences) in terms of repetition, symmetry, interference and deviation. It's a free/open source…

WHO WE WORK WITH
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