Wow. I have only really got back to the studio this week, the floor was quite dusty! We have been on out travels, supporting events in Frankfurt IMEX, a conference about conferences – seems a bit like Being John Malkovich going inside his own head. We were also in London supporting the Open Mobile Summit, I will put some images up here when they are processed.

I really should have posted the Zimbardo video up here when we completed it but the RSA You Tube channel is getting a lot of hits for the Animates, which is really encouraging for us!

We are currently working on ’storymapping’ Matthew Taylor’s keynote to be delivered on the 17th at the RSA. We will post up video of that live event and also the Animate from the talk too, when it’s up and ready. We are also working on talks by David Harvey and Slavoj Zizec, both on capitalism.

Anyway this post is meant to be about Mr Zimbardo and the great work Oliver did on making the animate. Well done Ollie, this is really great stuff!

In April we were asked to attend the Sustainability Live Conference at the Birmingham NEC to help support Arup at their stand. We helped them to build a large picture ‘vision of the future’  encapsulating thoughts and ideas from the conference goers about what a future transport system and ultimately a city of the future might look like. We split the image into three main areas – Problems, Desires and Solutions. We took three artists with us to the conference as we needed to finish the drawing in on the day and leave it therefor the rest of the conference. 

It was handy to have one of us interview the public and Scribe visually capture what they said and feed back those ideas to the other two artists in order they could visually incorporate those ideas into the big picture. Arup have their own page to showcase the conference, which you can see if you click here.

Making the Visual Synthesis for Arup Sustainability Live

Here’s the final piece in all it’s coloured-in ness.

I don’t get asked to draw outside very often. Last weekend was different. I was working at the Kent County Show. I didn’t know what to expect before I arrived, only that I’d be working on blackboards and whiteboards. I imagined them to be separate, but as you can see from the picture they were an interesting combination of the two. I soon found out that I was drawing in the Skanska show garden. The garden was designed by Learning through Landscapes and built by Skanska RM and designed to encourage children to learn outside. There were storytellers and people making a clay oven and a very popular set of scales which used bricks to calculate weight. I was there to encourage children to draw on the blackboard. I really love the Sonic the Hedgehog, seen in the photo. I also listened to the storytellers and transcribed some of their tales into pictures. I really liked it when the children picked up on what I was doing and finished off some of the stories themselves. The Garden won ‘Top Gold’ at the show. Hurrah!

I love working with Audiences South! Here’s some Scribing from the NI11 session they ran in Wokingham. Wokingham is another local authority which have adopted the NI11 (arts engagement) as a priority. This session entailed looking at different segmentation within audiences to develop possible new ways for engagement in the arts.