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Images from the UAL Digital Tech Jam 14 Dec 2015

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Chelsea Arts students explore Virtual Reality Oculus Rift through Gravity Sketch

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Ford 3D printing Innovation Tour at Chelsea College of Arts & ISD PlanEt project presentation

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UAL Digital Jam at the Technical Staff Conference 2015

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Pop Up Digital Maker Space

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Gravity Sketch user testing with Chelsea MAGDC students

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Following on from our first introduction to the Gravity Sketch team by the Tate at the Tate digital show & tell event, the Gravity team have offered to come to UAL and work with our staff and students on testing the new app in development.

This workshop came at a good time for CCW digital LTE as we are starting to explore new 3D technologies through 3D printing and virtual reality Oculus Rift. Also really interesting to see the Gravity Skech app is now linked up to 3D printing service Shapeways, the quality of the 3D prints look brilliant.

The first session took place Nov 2015 at Chelsea:

The new cohort of MAGDC students were let loose on Gravity Sketch software to assess usability and also to creatively challenge themselves to think about the uses and expression of 3D virtual space and it’s relationship to new 3D printing opportunities.

Next week the students visit the company’s studio to try out the sketching environment with the virtual reality headset, Oculus Rift.

First quick experiments revealed a leaning towards fragmented environments with a sense of space extending both sides of the screen.

See more here on the MAGDC blog.

See also a fantastic blog post from 'A new design experience' ISD student Gonzalo Caravia Garcia on a follow up workshop with Gravity Sketch team exploring Virtual Reality through Oculus Rift

Some Images from the afternoon:

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Digital Artists Show and Tell event at the Tate 16 Nov 2015

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Gravity Sketch Oculus Rift virtual reality and Imperial College Advanced Hackspace at the Tate

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Tate Britain education team hosted a really interesting ‘Digital Artists show and tell’ event in the Tate Taylor Digital Studio 15/07/15.

The event showcased the work of the Imperial College Advanced Hackspace (https://icah.org.uk) and Gravity Sketch (http://gravitysketch.com) a Computer Aided Design (CAD) modeling app. There was also an opportunity to try out the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, which was a first for me and it’d be great to explore this more with arts students & staff at UAL/CCW.

The event was free & open to all to drop in at any point in the afternoon and Tate plan to host more of these types of events in the future.

Is was a great opportunity to make some very useful connections and see some very interesting digital work. There’s plenty of potential to follow up on some collaborations ideas with our arts students & staff at UAL/CCW and the Imperial College Advanced Hackspace and Gravity Sketch teams.

The session kicked off by Larissa Kunstel-Tabet and the ICAH project team with an introduction to Imperial College Advanced Hackspace (ICAH) https://icah.org.uk who’s doing great work in embedding cross-disciplinary digital making practices with staff and students at Imperial. ICA Hackspace is also keen to collaborate with other institutions like the Tate and HEIs. Hopefully we can explore this more with arts students & staff at UAL/CCW in the work we are doing around linking the Makerspace movement and maker culture with current 'CCW Digital Learning, Teaching & Enhancement' work at UAL: See CCW Digital Makerspace and Chelsea Jam.

Daniela Paredes Fuentes and the research team developing CAD modeling using augmented reality introduced us to Gravity Sketch. (see video above). This work has led them to develop an amazing new app called Gravity Sketch, which enables a very accessible, quick and easy way into CAD modeling. 3D renders can be easily developed on tablet device and exported (Using https://sketchfab.com/) and developed in other software for 3d printing, animations, CAD work etc.

This app will be of great interest to arts students & staff at UAL/CCW and we look forward to exploring this more with the Gravity Sketch team.

The Gravity Sketch team also demonstrated how some of the Gravity Sketch models had been used to create a virtual reality world experienced through the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. This was a first for me and again another area for us to engage UAL arts students & staff in as part of creative practice.

Learn more about CCW Digital Learning Teaching and Enhancement

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Launch of the BBC Micro Bit computer and potential impacts on FE and HE arts education

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MakerSpace Art School

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Here East maker community and #makerpaper

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Introducing Here East, one of London’s biggest developments: over a million square feet of hyper-connected commercial space.

The robots are taking over – and our robot was designed and hand built in East London by self-confessed maker and tinkerer John Nolan. Believe it or not, everything is 100% real: no CGI, just pure talent and craft. Filmed on location at Here East, it took us eight weeks to have a fully working (and articulate) robot.

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#MakerPaper

Earlier this year, Here East commissioned Deloitte to produce the first report on the impact of making on the UK economy. Now, we can reveal that the Making Revolution is even more powerful than we imagined, generating up to £18bn and up to 298,000 jobs for the UK economy. Through case studies with companies like Knyttan, Sugru, and MakieLab, and thorough research, the paper also reveals that UK makers are estimated to be over 50% more productive than the average UK worker. But the findings also warn that lack of access to skills, finance and infrastructure might hinder businesses and products from scaling.

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Tech City CEO Gerard Grech on Britain’s digital ambition

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The internet of things, the importance of digital skills and hopes for the tech industry under the new UK government were just some of the themes Tech City chief execituve Gerard Grech discussed with The Drum following his recent talk at Digital Shoreditch.

Grech, who joined Tech City last February from Blackberry, said that while the Coalition government “did a lot” for technology such as introducing policies to ensure growth, he has even greater hopes for the industry under the Conservatives.

“I want to see even more companies grow and scale and become international superstars and I think this government is very much focussed on the creation of new businesses but also on the growth of scale up businesses and it’s something that I’m very much looking forward to,” he said.

In terms of innovation Grech is most excited about the internet of things, which he said has “huge transformative power” in the way services are delivered to consumers as well as citizens.

The future for Britain’s tech industry is bright according to Grech who said that while the country has seen great growth in London, cities outside the capital are also proving their worth in a variety of areas.

“Perception is rapidly changing and we are seeing emerging tech expertise and critical masses of expertise right across the country,” he said. “Cambridge is doing very well in hardware, Bristol is doing extremely well in robotics and automotive tech, Greater Manchester in data science, Belfast in cyber security, and Edinburgh fintech. It’s just mushrooming right across the country.”

To address the digital skills gap Tech City launched the Digital Business Academy four months ago to help those interested in the sector learn the latest digital marketing and digital developments and to help them connect in to digital companies. So far over 12,000 UK residents have signed up to the scheme.

All the images from the fantastic Chelsea Jam event 13 May 2015

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