Open lab news
Interdisciplinary College (IK): a celebration of curiosity
The Interdisciplinary College (IK) is a spring school like no other. This year’s theme is: Curiosity, Risk and Reward: Shaping Autonomous Intelligence.
A Discussion of Digital Civics in the Context of Austerity
PhD student Dan Richardson talks about the think line digital civics walks when working in the context of austerity.
A different kind of work experience – young people create their own computing research projects
Doing work experience in Newcastle University’s School of Computing HCI department using micro:bits and the micro:bit Tinker Kit.
Open Lab welcomes Professor Dave Kirk as their new director
Professor Dave Kirk is the new director of Open Lab, taking over from Professor Pete Wright.
‘Time travel’ as dementia care is spreading, but the future may be more powerful than the past
Kellie Morrissey and James Hodge talk about how dementia villages and care homes that try and recreate the past are unsustainable in the Conversation.
Rainbows, robots and research – primary school children visit Open Lab for Enterprise Week
Learning about micro:bits and higher education – 347 students from across Newcastle visited Open Lab for Enterprise week.
Tech can empower refugee communities – if they’re allowed to design how it works
Writing for the Conversation, Reem Talhouk, Andy Garbett and Kyle Montague discuss how using blockchain instead of e-vouchers for food aid, could empower Syrian refugees but only if they are involved in the design.
Not-Equal project funds ten projects to make digital society work for everyone
Ten projects have been awarded over £270k to explore social justice in the digital economy with examples looking at addressing knife crime to using technology to improve food security.
Schoolchildren helped redesign a city to cut air pollution and climate warming
Children are the future, so why don’t we listen to them more often? Writing for The Conversation, Sean Peacock discusses his research about working with children to give them the tools to tackle air pollution.
BBC micro:bit and video-making at JTELSS: getting innovative in the classroom
Anna Vasilchenko and Megan Venn-Wycherley talk about their experience running a workshop on Constructivism and Learn-by-making at the 15th annual European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning Summer School.
Designing for citizens rather than users: Purdue students bring UX magic to digital civics
Sixteen UX students from Purdue University joined us and took on the task to create their own ideas around Open Lab’s digital civics work.
Open Lab involved in ground-breaking bowel cancer research across the North East and Cumbria
Open Lab is involved in a ground-breaking cancer research and treatment project aiming to reverse the region’s high incidence and low survival rates of bowel cancer (also called colorectal cancer).
INTERIOR DESIGN OF THE FUTURE WILL SEEM LIKE MAGIC
Writing for The Conversation, PHD student Sara Nabil discusses her work on ‘interioraction’ – blending interior design with interaction design.