Waste Man
June 25, 2007 Posted by Clare in : Bristol, Community Media, Environment , add a commentWASTE MAN, one of six films made for Bristol Natural History Consortium’s Think or Swim project to raise young people’s awareness of climate change, is part of a video competition on Scenewon.
Created by local film maker Nathan Hughes working with young film-makers from City of Bristol College, the competition closes on 30th June. To watch and vote for WASTE MAN go to - http://www.scenewon.co.uk/scene_movie.php?movie=585.
Who Wants to be the Digital Challenge Director?
June 19, 2007 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Digital Challenge, Bristol, jobs , add a commentDIGITAL CHALLENGE PROGRAMME DIRECTOR - FIXED TERM (18 MONTH)
£46,887 - £50,742
37 Hours per week
Sunderland City Council is now looking for a Programme Director to manage and co-ordinate their winning Digital Challenge Programme. You will need to have experience of engaging and working in partnership with commercial partners and with local communities, communities of interest and thematic-based issue groups.
More here
*UPDATE* Futurelabs: Building fairer futures, challenging educational divides
June 14, 2007 Posted by Kevin in : Bristol , add a commentFuturelabs held a discussion workshop on digital inclusion 12 June at the Victory Services Club in London. They are launching a new programme of work on the role of digital technologies to promote educational equality and have recently published two reports 2020 and Beyond and Beyond the Digital Divide.
The event was structured in a very flexible way, with the agenda being created “on the fly” by participants proposing discussion points and forming ad hoc groups of individuals interested in that particular topic. The notes from the days discussions should be available soon and I will publish them here once I receive them.
UPDATE: As promised, the report is available for download.
Where next for ecohomes?
June 13, 2007 Posted by Clare in : Bristol, Events, Environment , add a commentHow can we achieve ‘zero carbon’ homes? What will the homes and communities of the future look like? Join in this topical debate at the CREATE Centre on Wednesday 20 June, following presentations by local eco-architects Craig White (White Design), Richard Swann (Bruges Tozer), Lucy Pedler (The Green Register) and others. Chaired by former RIBA president George Ferguson, this Architecture Week event is organised to mark the tenth anniversary of the CREATE Ecohome. The debate takes place 6.30 - 8.30 pm, Weds 20 June, with exhibition private view from 5.30 (Ecohome also open). Admission is FREE but booking strongly advised; tickets must be collected by 6 pm.
There’s also the chance to see the new exhibition ‘Ecohome + 10: Designing the green homes of the future’. Find out what Kevin McCloud, Richard Rogers, Dick Strawbridge, Jonathan Porritt and others think about the future of eco-building, and view a variety of inspirational projects - from real-life homes to blue-sky thinking (including a development of ‘earthships’, pictured).
For further information on these and other CREATE Ecohome anniversary events click here.
