In early 2020, Graham Leicester of the International Futures Forum and I did some work together on the competencies I use as a Producer, and how these might be used in the public and third sector to support transformational change. We delivered a workshop as part of the wonderful Firestarter Festival. We’re about to revisit […]
This piece was originally written for and published on Native, the journal of the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. It is part of the Making Digital Work: Data guide, available to download here. Even if we do recognise the worth of our data and make the time to gather and analyse it, if we’re […]
This piece was originally written for and published on Native, the journal of the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. It is part of the Making Digital Work: Business Models guide, available to download here. We increasingly need to justify what we do, which in turn is leading to a sector-wide identity crisis. We none of […]
This is the video and transcript of a talk I gave recently, about the need to develop a more granular approach to describing the arts. I was asked to speak at the second Tramway World Cafe, produced by PAL Labs in association with MMM and Tramway, responding to this question: What can we do to […]
This piece was originally written for and published on Native, the journal of the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. Budgeting is an art. People who are good at it approach the empty spreadsheet like a canvas, using formulae to move numbers around until they’ve painted a glorious picture of their future project. What happens […]
This piece was originally written for and published in The Carrier in November 2013. I’ve been thinking recently about leadership. It’s a complex concept, isn’t it? We talk about the need for it…a lot. We need strong leadership within the work-place, within the sporting arena, within minority groups, within political movements…
This piece was commissioned by PRS for Music Foundation and first published on their website here. It was written by journalist Kate Molleson. Sarah Kenchington builds outlandish instruments at her home in the hills just north of Glasgow. Her latest, Wind Pipes for Edinburgh commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival, is a wheezy pipe organ […]
This piece was originally written for and published in Guardian Culture Professionals in September 2013. It’s the second in a trio of articles written by the Sync team, you can read the first and last in the series here and here. There’s a trap we keep falling into as we attempt to embed digital creativity in […]
An extract from a piece by Jonathan Jones in the Guardian titled Edinburgh Art Festival: the best of this year’s public commissions. Published 7 August 2013. Warmed by my beer, I descend into Chalmer’s Close, one of the old alleyways that branch like dark veins off the tourist artery of the High Street, to find a medieval chapel built […]