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Week #1255

Eventful. This week saw something of a crescendo in activity.  Before I try to map this out it’s worth noting that we decided this week to title our projects with names taken from tired seaside towns around the UK.  We did this, partly as a hat tip to the well heeled chaps circling the Silicon [...]

“As Reported”, a 4IP pitch

This post is one of many we’re going to be (hopefully) doing opening up the ideas we have which we feel have some value and which could benefit from your feedback. This pitch was given to the Yorkshire launch of 4IP on the 4th February 2009. It was one of four pitches shortlisted for two [...]

Bands From Here

We submitted a few ideas for MIPTV’s Content 360 Innovation competition a while back, in the category of ‘engaging teens locally’ (sponsored by the BBC). The brief was for ideas that “will help encourage teenage audiences to develop interests in, and to reflect, their local communities across the UK”. We’ve just found out that one [...]

‘Prepare to die’ – an idea for Social Innovation Camp

Rattle were at London’s Kings Cross Hub last night for the announcement of the ideas that will take part in December’s Social Innovation Camp. This is a weekend-long affair, at which designers, thinkers, social entrepreneurs and coders will meet to develop seven socially-benefiting ideas into working prototypes. Rattle submitted an idea called Prepare to die, [...]

Pitching The Great Manchester Cultural Cookoff

We were at the Whitworth Art Gallery last week to give our final pitch in Manchester Beacon’s ‘Mapping Creativity‘ project, after being shortlisted in October. Our proposal is for a social website and event called The Great Manchester Cultural Cookoff. You can find out more about the project, by watching the video of the pitch, [...]

‘The Great Manchester Cultural Cookoff’ shortlisted for Manchester Beacon competition

I’m pleased to say that an idea we submitted for Mapping Creativity, a Manchester Beacon project, has been shortlisted! We found out the good news on Friday. Our project idea is called ‘The Great Manchester Cultural Cookoff’, and in essence proposes to create a social website where Mancunians and Salfordians can come together to share [...]