Input > Output at Digital Revolution
The 6-day Get Started with Product Design workshop we hosted and ran with the Prince's Trust, culminated today with a one day exhibition Input > Output at the Barbican Centre, alongside programming for Digital Revolution.
The twelve young people saw the work they had produced with us at Makerversity presented to the public in pride of place in the Barbican's Fountain Room. The Prince's Trust programme - funded by musician and entrepreneur, Will.i.am's I.am.angel Foundation - targets young people from vulnerable backgrounds and helps them into work by building up their skills, confidence and creative thinking.
Will.i.am came along to the exhibition to see their work and spent time talking to the young people and interacting with the digital instruments each of them had designed and built. He said of the workshop:
"I am so proud that my work with the Prince's Trust is giving young people from vulnerable backgrounds the chance to join the Digital Revolution and make a valuable contribution to modern society."
AETHER and Pyramidi at Digital Revolution
Makerversity's exceptionally talented members of Vaults 2 and 14 are infiltrating the Barbican. The UNSEEN, John Nussey, Sam Tripp, Searu and Alex Bygrave have all been involved in major works on show now at Digital Revolution.
Image courtesy of the Barbican
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Searu and Alex designed and built the mechanics and electronics for the instruments in Pyramidi, a collaborative project by Yuri Suzuki for Will.i.am, which features three deconstructed instruments, programmed to play the music for a song written by Will.i.am, called Dreamin' About the Future.
These guys are all amazing, it's all amazing. Go! Go! Go!
But whilst you're here, or pretending to work, have a look at both projects featured in these highlights.
Assembled Education
This weekend, on Saturday 28th June, we hosted General Assembly's Assembled Education, a day packed with of talks from experts on the future and development of education.
Women in Wireless
Leading the Innovation Charge, the latest event from Women in Wireless - a nonprofit organisation that empowers and develops female leaders in mobile and digital media - was held in the Pearson Lab last night.
Image from Women in Wireless via Twitter
A great crowd turned out to listen to a panel of speakers share their views on innovation. The panel comprised of Diana Stepner, VP Innovation Partnerships & Developer Relations at Pearson, Sarah Watson, Group Mobile Manager from the NET-A-PORTER Group, Liz Whitney, Business Director of ustwo, Roberta Lucca, CEO of WonderLuk, Sally Turner-Hopkins, Founder of Angel Academe and panel chair, Russell Buckley, Government Advisor, Angel Investor and Mentor.
Social Enterprise Meetup II
Urban Micro-Climate talk with Julie Futcher
On Thursday, May 29, the Pearson Lab here at Makerversity, a small group of seven guests attended a talk from Julie Futcher on Urban Micro Climates, following a tour of the city she gave on Tuesday night, despite the pouring rain!
Julie Futcher, the new Climate Change Advisor for our members, Architecture for Humanity, is an architect specialising in how tall buildings in London alter the micro climate of an area, by creating heat pockets, pollution, wind tunnels and shadows.
