Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/rofi/2647699204/ (not John Ippolito)
Meanwhile back on the
We Think seminar…
By far the most interesting and relevant presenter of the day, for me at least, was Jon Ippolito. The man who describes himself as “a footsoldier in the battle between network and hierarchic cultures” presented a range of his network projects from Stillwater – the New Media program of the University of Maine at Orono which use the semantic web as a means of actually creating the linkages that everyone else seemed, at best, to be hinting at.
I’m going to have a play with The Pool and Thoughtmesh to see if they really can break the habit of hierarchical cultures and, as John has it, make me think more like a network.
June 29th, 2009
Urbis blogs met BBC Blast last week to discuss how our projects are crossing over in October. While Urbis have the Homegrown: The Story of UK Hip Hop launch to look forward to BBC Blast are preparing for their production of Othello in association with Akala’s Hip Hop Shakespeare company being staged at The Lowry as part of Blast on tour from the 14th-17th October.
An additional strand to Blast on Tour will give 50 young people the opportunity to get involved in a two week workshop covering a range of creative practices from dance to drama to visual arts, culminating in the staging of Othello.
Having had Akala in action at Urbis last month this event promises to be of the highest quality and an amazing opportunity for a select group of young people to work closely with one of the UKs leading experimenters in hip hop.
Keep an eye out on Urbis blogs for more info on how we might be working together and the BBC Blast site for more details of how to get involved – the full programme to be announced in August.
Thanks to Blast Urbis will be allocating 8 places on the Blast Tour to young people already involved in our youth programmes here. At present these projects are in their infancy and only open to targeted groups but we’ll be rolling things out to a wider audience over the next year. To find out more about how you can get involved with Urbis’ youth programmes keep an eye on Urbis blogs by signing up to our RSS feed.
June 29th, 2009