If you’ve been to Tuttle over the last few months, you’ll at least know where the Centre for Creative Collaboration (C4CC) is – it’s physically a building near Kings Cross. A former sculpture studio that acts as a fabulous multi-purpose space for the kind of open ended fun and games that drive the thinking behind the Centre.
The idea is that it’s a ’safe’ space for collaboration, firstly between the different colleges within the University Of London – UL covers a huge range of subjects, most of those are siloed even within the colleges, let alone across the various colleges that geographically cover a BIG area of London. Like so many other big academic institutions, collaboration is often an after-thought, in a world where the race for funding, accreditation and dominance in a specialist field drive evermore-focussed specialisation, with little room at the margins for the serendipitous goodness that happens when, say, a musician and an architect meet up to swap ideas. Or a physics undergrad gets to talk to an environmental scientist about the application of their work in eachother’s fields.
It does happen, but it’s pretty rare and the terms are often loaded.
So what happens when you create a neutral space for such things, one that’s well resourced and has a dedicated team making things happen there? Well, that’s what the project will find out.
And today, in the collaborative spirit that drives the entire project, we’re going to assemble a website in a day. And by ‘assemble’, I don’t just mean ‘install and design’, I mean concept, content, everything.
‘We’ in this instance is a collaboration between C4CC and Amplified – so the web monkeys that are doing the back end and design stuff are Ben Walker and Xander Cansell, the co-ordinator is Brian Condon (who straddles both worlds, running C4CC and being a core Amplified person too), Laura Kidd, Debbie Davies (co-opted in from the amazing pool of creative collaborators that gather at the C4CC for Tuttle on a Friday morning) and me, with the incredible Lucy Windmill making it all actually happen, as is always the case with Amp stuff.
So, follow the #C4CC hashtag today on twitter, or each of the participants, and before too long, we’ll post the URL and you can hopefully see it all happening before your eyes. The content will start diffuse, existing in each of our own web environments, but Twitter is the place to look for the links…
Dan Bird 1:22 pm on August 29, 2010 Permalink |
Most of the festivals I play through out the Summer are the smaller/medium sized festivals and most of the time I never see the artists because I’m immersed in the social side of the festival. Sometimes spending a whole morning just laying on the grass sipping away at your favourite tipple can make a festival the best ever. Like music, a festival is made by you.
Drbexl 1:44 pm on August 29, 2010 Permalink |
Great post! I’m only on my 3rd full Greenbelt but last time had my 1st go at one of the art sessions … So this year I have had to respond to the question ‘which is the best talk you’ve been to?’ with ‘haven’t been to any’ – (yet anyway). Have chatted to friends & strangers – undertaken 3 unusual forms of Eucharist, 2 art sessions and fallen asleep in a film … Great!! Just enjoying some time out… And with all the talks on MP3 I can buy the talks to listen to later…
Steve thack 1:51 pm on August 29, 2010 Permalink |
Doing nothing? Well there was that panel you were on. Oh and introducing flap jack to a couple of thousand people. Pretty full weekend i’d guess. Guess i’m increasingly in the luxury position of managing to see most bands i care about outside the festivat so seeing everything less essential. Talks for me work almost as well on mp3. So definately more relaxed than i once Internet helps too, i can check out new bands gb books without needing to slip into back of a gig for two songs. Think in the last three months i’ve listened to maybe 600 tracks by around 75 of this years bands- so i know what is truely essential. Still bloody annoyed i’m only on site for one day this year.
Todays top three acts i’m pissed off at missing kitty the lion, jon gomm and the floe. Will download communion when i get home from work.