We bring together pioneering companies and the best academic thinkers to explore the potential of something we are calling digital public space where anyone, anywhere, anytime can access, explore and create with digital content.

Together we will create new products, experiences and business opportunities which empower anyone, anywhere to access, explore and create with the newly accessible collections of media, public information and personal data trails which form the digital public space.

To do this we bring together carefully selected companies and researchers to form Clusters. Through our facilitated CX Lab events we help clusters imagine collaborative projects and obtain the support they need to make them happen.

Clusters

Public Service Innovation and Democracy

Individual and community empowerment, new public and private sector services, data collection and sensing, data visualization and service design.
5 Projects
11 Commercial Partners
13 Academic Researchers

Making the Digital Physical

Transforming the digital space trapped inside screens and devices into physical experiences in the real world.

Performance, Liveness and Participation

Exploring how digital prototypes can be used to offer new forms of participation in live events, broadcasts and in public spaces.
3 Projects
4 Commercial Partners
3 Academic Researchers

Rethinking Working Life

What opportunities does Digital Public Space afford for new working practices? 
4 Projects
6 Commercial Partners
7 Academic Researchers

Stories, Archives and Living Heritage

Exploring new ways of accessing, creating, exploring and remixing personal stories and cultural heritages to create new experiences.
1 Project
2 Commercial Partners
1 Academic Researcher

Building Social Communities - Dynamic Structures for Growth

The lab under this cluster topic will focus on the following area: Designing the Digital Public Space - Dynamic Structures for Growth

Projects

The News Where You Are

Exploring how citizen journalism can play a role in the production of professional news coverage.

On the Precipice

Developing tools to capture audience experience in exhibitions.

Participatory Production Technologies

Developing digital tools for user-generated content in professional and non-professional video production workflows.

Digital Fiction Factory - BBC Learning

A project between Lancaster University and The Digital Fiction Factory and a number of SMEs from the north of England to deliver three prototype developments for BBC Learning.

Rhythmanalysis

Exploring imbedded rhythms, that also effects the rhythms of ‘everyday life’.

Chattr

Chattr
Chattr is a field trial at FutureEverything that invites conference delegates to participate in an experiment on privacy and ethics.

emoto - visualising online response to London 2012

emoto - visualising online response to London 2012
Visualising the online emotional response to London 2012 in an interactive online visualisation and physical data sculpture.

Hybrid Lives: mapping interactions, people, and places.

Hybrid Lives: mapping interactions, people, and places.
Developing a physical co-working space to capture the way working life is changing for many people as technology enables different and more digitally mediated ways for communication, sharing, and collaboration.

Where do you go to?

Making an invisible group visible

The Department of Hidden Stories

The Department of Hidden Stories
Encouraging interaction with books and libraries using mobile games.

Alpha Procurement

Exploring digital solutions for creative services to enter public sector procurement.

Themes of Engagement

Theme based engagement for communities.

Open Planning

Rethinking the urban planning process in the digital space.

Latest Activity

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one of our projects..planning and the public...how do we think about a planning notice and digital design http://t.co/Z1gBAoPEYv

The zip tied laminated lamp post application

16th May 2013
The planning application notice has become a common sight in the UK, an A4 sheet of paper, photocopied, laminated and zip tied to a lamp-post. By law a series of copies are required to be sited within range of the proposed development site to allow passers-by to be informed of the...
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And here is the ScareBot in action! http://t.co/XAxSwaHvat

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Here's a nice video about Telling Takes: The Wray Digital Scarecrow project that we were involved with recently: http://t.co/N6lm7XjAVb

Creative Exchange Goes to CHI

7th May 2013
Last week, members of the Creative Exchange team attended CHI 2013, the leading venue for human–computer interaction research, in Paris. CHI is the biggest event on Newcastle's calendar, and for several of the PhD students, this was their first conference after joining us in October. This year's event broke records, with...
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Taking a break from manning the stall at #makerfaireuk to listen to Alice from @makielab give a talk about 3D printing and more

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Our milk dispensing cow seems to be popular! As are the sweeties on our table...