What: The Digital Culture Festival is an annual event that aims to showcase the digital practices of staff and students at Central Saint Martins. This year's theme is "Where is the craft In digital?", and the event will feature seminars, workshops and demonstrations.
When: The 2019 Digital Culture Festival will take place on Wednesday 3 July from 10.00 - 17.00.
Where: Central Saint Martins, Archway and King's Cross campus, The Street and The LVMH Theatres E002 and E003.
How to get involved: Please book online to attend the sessions. For further information, please contact Jennifer Williams-Baffoe - Technology Enhanced Learning Coordinator
Programme
10.00 – 12.00
Where is the Craft in Digital?
LVMH Theatre E003
Panel Discussion on the use of digital with a focus on craft, chaired by Rachel Dickson, Dean of Programmes. Panellists include Melanie Lenz, Irene Albino, Dr Brigitta Zics, Ghislaine Boddington and Oonagh O'Hagan.
12.00 – 13.00
The Art of Creating Accessible Digital Content
LVMH Theatre E003
Barbara Denton, Assistive Technology Coordinator
What makes someone stop reading your digital content? Can everyone understand your PDFs, your Word documents and your content on Moodle? We will look at how to write accessibly using interactive exercises. There will also be time to ask a user with a specific learning difficulty about their experiences, and how accessible content helps them.
12.00 – 12.40
Use of Padlet to simplify Moodle engagement
LVMH Theatre E002
Paul De'Ath - Course Leader BAPD
Learn how BA Product Development have benefited from the use of Padlet as a teaching and organisational aid and how this has been applied to their course spaces on Moodle.
14.00 – 15.30
Collaboration Workshop
LVMH Theatre E003
When and how to collaborate in a digital space, a post digital workshop - Mark Wells is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion Communications with Business Studies at the University of Brighton, UK and a practising interaction designer. His research interests explore the intersectionality of the digital and analogue spaces.
14.00 – 15.00
Transitive Archives
CSM Museum & Archives
Isabel Bonafe Carrasco and Judy Wilcox
This is an interactive session that will reflect upon the notion of immediacy, ubiquity, and contingency in digital records and ways in which they can present new possibilities of approaching the archive and collections. Isabel Bonafe Carrasco will present new gateways of contemplating the archive through an interactive face-recognition installation, which only can be activated by the gaze of the visitors. Residual data, randomness, algorithms, broken hard-drives and remnants of physical objects will be the leads of the talk.
15.00 – 17.00
Creating portrait silhouettes with laser cutting and Photoshop
J203 at 15.30, L116 at 16.00 (Digital Fabrication Bureau)
João Alves Marrucho and Bill Dickinson
Portrait silhouettes became all the rage in fashionable English Society of the Georgian period, when they were known as “shades.” The earliest professional silhouettists were portrait miniaturists, seeking a less expensive product. Shades were popular as mementos, intended to be given away, and rapidly became an integral part of Georgian society. This is a creative and interactive session, learn how to create your own ‘digital silhouette’ and explore simple layers of cutting techniques navigating from Photoshop to Illustrator to the Laser Cutter.
15.00 – 16.00
Soft Circuit Workshop
Surface Design Lab
Saffie Pluck and Sabrina Samsoodin
A playful workshop exploring soft circuits, eTextiles, and the potential of wearable technology in our increasingly technologically reliant society. Experiment with hand embroidery techniques to create stitched connections between upcycled copper wire, reclaimed computer components, and electronic sequins. You will also be invited to investigate the physical properties of conductive materials and how they can be enhanced through design choices. This workshop encourages learning through physically engaging with materials and techniques, combining traditional craft heritage with the contemporary and the future.
10.00 – 17.00
Drop-in: Feedback / Collage - Academic Support Online
The Street
Academic Support Online Feedback Groups enable staff and students to share perceptions, opinions and ideas about their online Academic Support environment. These informal discussions help us to understand the feelings and experiences of Academic Support Online users, and explore them in terms of particular development topics or themes. For the Digital Culture Festival, we invite staff and students to contribute to the ongoing development of the Academic Support Online environment, using paper templates, experimental drawing materials and collage. To explore user specific views of Academic Support Online.
10.00 – 17.00
Drop-in: Assistive Technology
The Street
Barbara Denton
Whether it’s the software on our computers or the free apps we recommend for your phones and tablets, there are many tools out there to help you with your learning. https://www.arts.ac.uk/students/assistive-technology
10.00 – 17.00
Drop-in: Hololnes – Fologram – Rhino/ Grasshopper
The Street
4D team: Abdul Mohammed, Nelson Crespo, Steve Hill, Sion Fletcher
Fologram is a toolkit that allows designers to build interactive mixed reality applications quickly and within Rhino and Grasshopper. Fologram is a software platform that allows Mixed Reality hardware to talk to desktop design software. Geometry and other model information from your design software is streamed to your headset or mobile phone, and spatial information like device or hand positions are sent back in real time. By using this spatial information to trigger changes in design models, designers can use Fologram to build interactive mixed reality experiences with design software they are already familiar with. In its simplest application, Fologram situates digital content in physical space. The CSM 4D team will demonstrate holographic making technology with the use of the Hololens, Fologram and Rhino/Grasshopper software. Participates will be able to experience the meeting point between craft and digital technology and test holographic mixed reality making.
10.00 – 17.00
Drop-in: Work smarter with Office 365
The Street
Nic Clark - Senior Consultant, Hable
Inspiration for your role - understand using the Office365 online apps to make your work life a little smarter and add the power of the cloud to your role! We'll be providing personalised help and ideas to help you get the best from it for your individual needs.