During the Making For Change project I mentioned in my last post, I had the opportunity to listen to Sarah Corbett give a talk on Craftivism. Sarah is the founder of the Craftivist Collective, a social enterprise which uses the techniques of craftivism to engage people in social justice issues, so she was perfect for the #MakingForChange project. …
Droney McDroneface
Mike Rawlins sent me a link to the Boaty McBoatFace public consultation on Faceboook, probably a day or two before it became front page news. I chuckled. For hours. It’s one of those things that made me randomly burst out laughing for days afterwards. It hit my funny bone, and it hit the nations. Today …
Crafts, Social Justice and Social Media #makingforchange
A couple of weeks ago we spent a whole week out of the office working with a group of 16 – 25 year olds on the #MakingforChange project – using Craftivism for social justice campaigns. The project was developed by Craftspace a Birmingham based organisation that creates “opportunities to see, make and be curious about exceptional contemporary craft.” So what is …
Bad manners, blockchains, open data, government as a platform and and Birmingham pigs in muck.
Image cc leeturner. Is the real barrier to open data good manners? There’s honest open truth in the blog post Over Politeness is the fatal flaw in the open data movement. Anything Tom Steinberg writes on Open data needs to be taken seriously. It was he who was one of the key people behind the …