I have recently been commissioned by Afrocats, a performing arts organisation working with disadvantaged young people in the north west of England to create a weekly blog which documents and evaluates an arts project working with young women aged between 11-18 who are of African, Asian and Eastern European Heritage. The project runs from…
No Second Night Out Manchester is a project run by Riverside Housing. It aims to help people who are sleeping rough for the first time, and find them an immediate alternative so that they do not have to have to spend another night on the streets. I conducted an independent evaluation for the project and…
The process of creating Do I.T Academy is called the Duct Tape Process, as carried out by the Duct Tape University team.It was made possible with a grant from JISC Summer of Student Innovation project. The Do I.T Academy tool was created and version one tested in only five 4 hour sessions. 90 Second Video…
Summary of Activities Testing the Tool It was the last session of phase 1 and Mick asked us to participate in some usability testing for the tool. Meanwhile, Hils facilitated a final session on learning and teaching which aimed to build on previous discussions on how we learn and how we support others to learn.…
What’s Next? Summary of activities Collaborative planning activity In this session, Mick handed over the stick and asked ‘what’s next?’ Over the past few weeks Mick led the sessions in order to get the design process underway. Now it was the group’s turn to take the project forward. This is what we decided to work…
In session 3 we continued with the process of developing the search function and the list view on the website, which eventually lead to the development of a wire frame. This involved thinking about the different types of resources we might upload or would like to find in the repository and how we would describe…
Session 2 aimed to build on the prototype of the first week by adding more detail and establishing the meta data fields. In plain English, what this means is to work out which search and browse terms to use and to ensure that they make sense to the group as this will impact on how…
Background We held our first session of the Duct Tape Uni co-design process at Community Arts North West (CAN) in Manchester. CAN is an arts development organisation that works to facilitate cultural expression and visibility for the many diverse and complex communities living across Greater Manchester. The Do I.T course held in 2013 and due…