Good news! We’ll be holding our Open Plaques Open Day event on Saturday 25th September 2010 in the Centre for Creative Collaboration (venue hashtag: #c4cc) at 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG. If you’re interested in joining us, save the date! Located centrally just 5 minutes walk from Kings Cross station, bookings will open soon, but for now we’re focused on gathering in YOUR ideas and thoughts for the event’s areas of focus.
The Centre for Creative Collaboration is a groundbreaking space, being a pilot joint venture by the University of London, Goldsmiths, the Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Holloway and Complexity Partners LLP. Opened this year, it’s already got an impressive list of projects and events under it’s belt, including being host to the regular collaborative meet-up that is Tuttle Club, and other projects including the Live Media FLOSS Extended Production Seminary, the A Mad[s] Collective installation, DeriveLab, and the Prototype for A Spatialised Instrument. A full list is available on the Projects section of the C4CC website.
The space has wifi, and we’ll be occupying two of the multiple areas that comprise the building. It’s currently looking like we’ll have room for about 35-40 participants on the day – but of course the wider web community not physically present can also be involved. We’re hugely excited to be working with the C4CC to make this happen!
As our last post outlined, we’ve received backing from the RSA Catalyst fund to mount this event on the basis that it – and activity around it – advances the website’s (and any related mobile apps) ability to be more usable and take more contributions (adding unlisted plaques, biographical content, other media, etc) from the public at the front-end, and to better facilitate input more generally from the community of developers and other web specialists.
We’re happy to report we’ve started to have more people getting in touch and contributing suggestions for the site, for apps, and other ideas, but it’s still early days and now that the event is confirmed, we’d love to hear suggestions from anyone who has an interest in the Open Plaques project.
If you’re intrigued or inspired by the idea of gathering data (photos, biography, video, etc) on the historical markers that blue (and other) plaques commemorate, and making it available for public re-use – maybe even for a specific project you are working on yourself – let us know! And roll-on the 25th of September!
1. Main focus will be on opening up the submission and collating of information to the general public, so we’ll need some UX designers and the like to decide exactly how it should be.
2. I’d be interested in making Open Plaques more like a collecting game, a bit like I-Spy, so that it isn’t all about being the first person to photograph a plaque.
3. It could be fun to get out and about and do something plaque-related in the area as i’m sure that there are loads of plaques around the event location
I’ve added it to upcoming @ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/6610616/
Bookings for the event open tomorrow morning, Thurs 19th August!
You can book here:
http://openplaquesopenday.eventbrite.com/
Places are free, and lunch will be provided. Take a look at the event outline and let us know if you have any specific suggestions or other thoughts.
And if you can’t attend, you can still be involved so do get in touch if you have any comments or ideas. Looking forward to everyone making it happen!
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