What Sorts of Epic Should We Enable?

DoES Liverpool wants to help people do epic work, whatever that work might be. It’s a noble aim; but how do we go about enabling and supporting that? It’s something I was thinking about when reading Bottling Lightning, an essay from Ben Reinhardt thinking...

Festival of Maintenance slides: Culture and Tools

Recently I gave a talk at the inaugural Festival of Maintenance. It was a day-long celebration of all things fixing and maintaining, organised in part by DoES Liverpool community members Jackie Pease and Ross Dalziel. It took place down in London, but thanks to help...

MakerNoise Talk: We Don’t Need Another Hero

At the start of the month I was over at Edge Hill University along with a bunch of others from the DoES Liverpool community (including some of the conference organisers!) and a host of others interested in making and education, for the MakerNoise conference. I gave a...

Future Makespaces Talk: The Dark Matter of Makerspaces

Last week Adrian gave a talk at the Future Makespaces 2nd Symposium organised by the Royal College of Art. His talk was about the less obvious parts of running a makerspace, and here are the slides and his notes (which should be pretty much what he said, but…)...

Digital Innovation, a talk at FACT

Last Wednesday I was one of four people asked to give a talk at FACT (the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) about Digital Innovation. Once the talks were over we then had an interesting discussion between the speakers and the audience about some of the...