Hello!

My name is Andrew Wilson.

This site is an archive of more or less all my work so far.

If you want to have a look around, you could start with some selected projects.

The drawing of a monster is one of my favourites from Free All Monsters!

These are my contact details, and if you'd like to drop me a line please do.

Forest

SELECTED

City Poems A book that you read by walking round a city.
Five Trees Forest The Five Trees Forest is an invisible world that is in exactly the same place as our world.
Free All Monsters! A worldwide augmented reality monster spotting game begun in 2009.
para-lab More details coming soon.
RFID Snakes and Ladders A game of Snakes and Ladders played by moving around a building.
Same Skies Network And Think Tank More details coming soon.
The Guardian Text Message Poetry Competition A text message poetry competition with The Guardian.
West Yorkshire Walks More details coming soon.
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
WoW! A development of, and replacement for, Thumbprint, that I programmed in Python.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

TIMELINE

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2022

Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Art & Maths Working Group More details coming soon.
Basic Machines Working Group More details coming soon.
Beekeeping Experiments 04 More details coming soon.
The Making Space I am one of the founder members and main organisers of The Making Space.
para-lab More details coming soon.
Piazza Arts Centre Report More details coming soon.
Same Skies Network And Think Tank More details coming soon.
Superalloys Working Group More details coming soon.
Tracking AMPlify West Yorkshire More details coming soon.
Web Development More details coming soon.
West Yorkshire Walks More details coming soon.
WoW! A development of, and replacement for, Thumbprint, that I programmed in Python.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999

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2021

Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Activist SMS A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
AMPlify West Yorkshire More details coming soon.
Art & Maths Working Group More details coming soon.
Basic Machines Working Group More details coming soon.
Beekeeping Experiments 04 More details coming soon.
Beetroot Collective Exhibition More details coming soon.
Family Centre Christmas Support - WoW! More details coming soon.
Hybrid Real World And Zoom Event More details coming soon.
The Making Space I am one of the founder members and main organisers of The Making Space.
para-lab More details coming soon.
para-lab Report 2021 More details coming soon.
Piazza Arts Centre Report More details coming soon.
Same Skies Network And Think Tank More details coming soon.
Stella Tenax More details coming soon.
Superalloys Working Group More details coming soon.
Thumbprint Copleston Together Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch.
Tracking AMPlify West Yorkshire More details coming soon.
Web Development More details coming soon.
West Yorkshire Walks More details coming soon.
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
WoW! A development of, and replacement for, Thumbprint, that I programmed in Python.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999

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2020

Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Activist SMS A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
AMPlify West Yorkshire More details coming soon.
Art & Maths Working Group More details coming soon.
Basic Machines Working Group More details coming soon.
Beekeeping Experiments 04 More details coming soon.
The Making Space I am one of the founder members and main organisers of The Making Space.
para-lab More details coming soon.
Piazza Arts Centre Report More details coming soon.
Safe Distance Floor Markings More details coming soon.
Same Skies Network And Think Tank More details coming soon.
Superalloys Working Group More details coming soon.
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint Copleston Together Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch.
Web Development More details coming soon.
West Yorkshire Walks More details coming soon.
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
WoW! A development of, and replacement for, Thumbprint, that I programmed in Python.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999

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2019

Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Activist SMS A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Amazon Alexa Audiobook Reader Skill
Art & Maths Working Group More details coming soon.
Basic Machines Working Group More details coming soon.
Beekeeping Experiments 04 More details coming soon.
The Making Space I am one of the founder members and main organisers of The Making Space.
para-lab More details coming soon.
Same Skies Network And Think Tank More details coming soon.
Superalloys Working Group More details coming soon.
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint Copleston Together Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch.
Web Development More details coming soon.
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
WoW! A development of, and replacement for, Thumbprint, that I programmed in Python.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999

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2018

Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Activist SMS A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Amazon Alexa Audiobook Reader Skill
Art & Maths Working Group More details coming soon.
Basic Machines Working Group More details coming soon.
Beekeeping Experiments 02 Beekeeping as a probe to begin testing out a town.
Beekeeping Experiments 03 More details coming soon.
The Making Space I am one of the founder members and main organisers of The Making Space.
Packhorse Micro Festival I programmed and coordinated a micro festival called Packhorse, named after the venue, a shopping centre in Huddersfield.
para-lab More details coming soon.
Superalloys Working Group More details coming soon.
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint Copleston Together Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch.
Web Development More details coming soon.
West Yorkshire Markets More details coming soon.
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
WoW! A development of, and replacement for, Thumbprint, that I programmed in Python.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2017

21 Market Place A temporary gallery, studio and events space in an empty shop in Huddersfield.
Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Activist SMS A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Amazon Alexa Audiobook Reader Skill
Amazon Alexa Skill
Archibio A collaboration between artists, architects and scientists exploring architectural and biological structures from the macro to the nanoscale.
Archways Adaptive architecture research.
Beekeeping Experiments 01 Beekeeping as a probe to begin testing out a town.
Bioleeds A group of people interested in art, design, and making with biology in Leeds and West Yorkshire.
Bioleeds Collaboration Process A carefully considered structure for ideas generation and collaboration.
Care For Carers
Conversations About Regional Democracy In England Hosting conversations about regional democracy in England.
Futurestart
Glass Goes Where It Likes To Be An art, science, maker collaboration.
A Hand Drawn Map Of West Yorkshire A hand drawn map of the places in West Yorkshire that people care about.
Hannah Directory A celebration of great stuff happening in places in England's north.
Hannah Directory Fundraiser 2017 A day of workshops in Sheffield to help raise money for the production and distribution costs of Hannah Directory. "Join some of the best artists, makers and writers in England's north for a fantastic afternoon of inspiration that combines all sorts of great stuff from traditional embroidery with electronics to ancient Inca digital databases and the poetry of chance."
Hannah Directory Fundraising
Knowledge Pool A simple but rigerous tool for more things to happen better.
The Making Space I am one of the founder members and main organisers of The Making Space.
Micro Volunteering Research How can people fit volunteering into their daily lives?
Notwestminster Bringing people together to create and share new ideas for doing local democracy.
para-lab More details coming soon.
Same Skies Network Working for a hopeful, fair, prosperous and inclusive regional democracy in West Yorkshire and beyond.
Smilup
Stuff Happening In Huddersfield Human curated, robot automated listing of stuff happening in Huddersfield.
Superposition I was a co-founder and main organiser of Superposition, a network and space for collaboration between artists, scientists and makers in West Yorkshire.
Superposition Commission A £2000 commission to fund an artist, craftsperson or cross-disciplinary group to explore scientific research.
Tang Hall Dynamo
Textile Proteins Looking at patterns, surfaces, materials, and ways of stitching and embroidering.
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint Bibliotherapy Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch. "I love getting these, every time I get one I feel a warm glow."
Thumbprint Bradley Tra A tool that supports volunteers to make a difference in their neighbourhood.
Thumbprint Chickenley Keeping people up to date with opportunities in their neighbourhood. "The numbers were up 100% on what we would have expected and I think a large chunk of that increase is from Thumbprint."
Thumbprint Copleston Together Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch.
Thumbprint Creation Trust Sharing opportunities with local people.
Thumbprint Crosland Moor Community Learning Centre
Thumbprint Healthwatch
Thumbprint Lifeline Supporting people to make positive choices about themselves and their future.
Thumbprint Notwestminster
Thumbprint Raw Talent Sustaining a volunteer-run peer-to-peer learning group. "I like the group because it builds your confidence...I like the group of people here and we learn quite a bit together. We've just had a course on Asian cooking and it's fantastic."
Thumbprint Somers Town Big Local
Thumbprint Sustrans Ellesmere Port
Town Lab
Unit 15 A temporary gallery, studio and events space in an empty shop in Huddersfield.
Upstairs At 21 Market Place Experimental music concerts.
Voluntext Connecting people who want to volunteer with the opportunities to do it.
West Yorkshire Markets More details coming soon.
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
WoW! A development of, and replacement for, Thumbprint, that I programmed in Python.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2016

Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Activist SMS A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Archibio A collaboration between artists, architects and scientists exploring architectural and biological structures from the macro to the nanoscale.
Archways Adaptive architecture research.
Bioleeds A group of people interested in art, design, and making with biology in Leeds and West Yorkshire.
Bioleeds Collaboration Process A carefully considered structure for ideas generation and collaboration.
Care For Carers
Conversations About Regional Democracy In England Hosting conversations about regional democracy in England.
Glass Goes Where It Likes To Be An art, science, maker collaboration.
Knowledge Pool A simple but rigerous tool for more things to happen better.
Made In Huddersfield Celebrating and promoting "town-ness". "Two-thirds of us live in small and medium-sized towns."
The Making Space I am one of the founder members and main organisers of The Making Space.
Micro Volunteering Research How can people fit volunteering into their daily lives?
Mixed Reality Lab And Sustrans Residency A research residency shared between Sustrans, the national active travel organisation, and Nottingham University's Mixed Reality Lab (MRL).
Notwestminster Bringing people together to create and share new ideas for doing local democracy.
Same Skies Network Working for a hopeful, fair, prosperous and inclusive regional democracy in West Yorkshire and beyond.
Smilup
Superposition I was a co-founder and main organiser of Superposition, a network and space for collaboration between artists, scientists and makers in West Yorkshire.
Superposition Commission A £2000 commission to fund an artist, craftsperson or cross-disciplinary group to explore scientific research.
Sustrans Staff And Volunteers Python Programming Group A structure for Sustrans staff and volunteers to share Python programming knowledge.
Textile Proteins Looking at patterns, surfaces, materials, and ways of stitching and embroidering.
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint Bibliotherapy Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch. "I love getting these, every time I get one I feel a warm glow."
Thumbprint Bradley Community House
Thumbprint Bradley Tra A tool that supports volunteers to make a difference in their neighbourhood.
Thumbprint Chickenley Keeping people up to date with opportunities in their neighbourhood. "The numbers were up 100% on what we would have expected and I think a large chunk of that increase is from Thumbprint."
Thumbprint Copleston Together Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch.
Thumbprint Creation Trust Sharing opportunities with local people.
Thumbprint Lifeline Supporting people to make positive choices about themselves and their future.
Thumbprint Notwestminster
Thumbprint Raw Talent Sustaining a volunteer-run peer-to-peer learning group. "I like the group because it builds your confidence...I like the group of people here and we learn quite a bit together. We've just had a course on Asian cooking and it's fantastic."
Thumbprint Same Skies
Thumbprint Sustrans Ellesmere Port
Voluntext Connecting people who want to volunteer with the opportunities to do it.
West Yorkshire Markets More details coming soon.
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
Women Centre Texting A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2015

Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Activist SMS A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Archibio A collaboration between artists, architects and scientists exploring architectural and biological structures from the macro to the nanoscale.
Archways Adaptive architecture research.
ASMbly A pop-up lab and festival of collaboration between artists, scientists and makers.
Bioleeds A group of people interested in art, design, and making with biology in Leeds and West Yorkshire.
Bioleeds Collaboration Process A carefully considered structure for ideas generation and collaboration.
Brainy Alien
Care For Carers
Citizen Art History
Conversations About Regional Democracy In England Hosting conversations about regional democracy in England.
Made In Huddersfield Celebrating and promoting "town-ness". "Two-thirds of us live in small and medium-sized towns."
The Making Space I am one of the founder members and main organisers of The Making Space.
Mixed Reality Lab And Sustrans Residency A research residency shared between Sustrans, the national active travel organisation, and Nottingham University's Mixed Reality Lab (MRL).
Notwestminster Bringing people together to create and share new ideas for doing local democracy.
Same Skies Network Working for a hopeful, fair, prosperous and inclusive regional democracy in West Yorkshire and beyond.
Superposition I was a co-founder and main organiser of Superposition, a network and space for collaboration between artists, scientists and makers in West Yorkshire.
Sustrans Staff And Volunteers Python Programming Group A structure for Sustrans staff and volunteers to share Python programming knowledge.
Textile Proteins Looking at patterns, surfaces, materials, and ways of stitching and embroidering.
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint Bibliotherapy Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch. "I love getting these, every time I get one I feel a warm glow."
Thumbprint Bradley Community House
Thumbprint Bradley Tra A tool that supports volunteers to make a difference in their neighbourhood.
Thumbprint Chickenley Keeping people up to date with opportunities in their neighbourhood. "The numbers were up 100% on what we would have expected and I think a large chunk of that increase is from Thumbprint."
Thumbprint Copleston Together Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch.
Thumbprint Creation Trust Sharing opportunities with local people.
Thumbprint Lifeline Supporting people to make positive choices about themselves and their future.
Thumbprint Raw Talent Sustaining a volunteer-run peer-to-peer learning group. "I like the group because it builds your confidence...I like the group of people here and we learn quite a bit together. We've just had a course on Asian cooking and it's fantastic."
Thumbprint Same Skies
University Of Leeds Creative Labs
Voluntext Connecting people who want to volunteer with the opportunities to do it.
What Kind Of Region What kind of region do we want to live in and why?
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
Women Centre Texting A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2014

Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Activist SMS A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Archibio A collaboration between artists, architects and scientists exploring architectural and biological structures from the macro to the nanoscale.
ASMbly A pop-up lab and festival of collaboration between artists, scientists and makers.
Assertive Outreach Team Texting Collaborating on innovation from the front line.
Bioleeds A group of people interested in art, design, and making with biology in Leeds and West Yorkshire.
Brainy Alien
Conversations About Regional Democracy In England Hosting conversations about regional democracy in England.
Digital Craft Cafe
Made In Huddersfield Celebrating and promoting "town-ness". "Two-thirds of us live in small and medium-sized towns."
The Making Space I am one of the founder members and main organisers of The Making Space.
New Mechanics Institute
Notwestminster Bringing people together to create and share new ideas for doing local democracy.
Superposition I was a co-founder and main organiser of Superposition, a network and space for collaboration between artists, scientists and makers in West Yorkshire.
Superposition Pale Ale Looking at the physics of biology through brewing a beer.
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint Bibliotherapy Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch. "I love getting these, every time I get one I feel a warm glow."
Thumbprint Bradley Tra A tool that supports volunteers to make a difference in their neighbourhood.
Thumbprint Brookvale Park Listening and responding to people's feelings about their local park in Birmingham.
Thumbprint Copleston Together Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch.
Thumbprint Creation Trust Sharing opportunities with local people.
Thumbprint Dragon Cafe
Thumbprint Lifeline Supporting people to make positive choices about themselves and their future.
Thumbprint Ordsall a creative writing project using text messages
Thumbprint Ordsall Creative Texting
Thumbprint Raw Talent Sustaining a volunteer-run peer-to-peer learning group. "I like the group because it builds your confidence...I like the group of people here and we learn quite a bit together. We've just had a course on Asian cooking and it's fantastic."
Thumprint South London And Maudsley Nhs Trust
Voluntext Connecting people who want to volunteer with the opportunities to do it.
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
Women Centre Texting A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2013

Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Activist SMS A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
ASMbly A pop-up lab and festival of collaboration between artists, scientists and makers.
bioASMbly BioASMbly was an evening event focused on biology that I initiated at the first Superposition ASMbly pop-up lab.
Bioleeds A group of people interested in art, design, and making with biology in Leeds and West Yorkshire.
Concept For A Retractable Roof On Millennium Square In Leeds A proposal developed at my request for the first edition of Hannah Directory in 2013.
Free All Monsters! A worldwide augmented reality monster spotting game begun in 2009.
Image Recognition In Museums Using image recognition to navigate round museums.
Step 2 Texting
Superposition I was a co-founder and main organiser of Superposition, a network and space for collaboration between artists, scientists and makers in West Yorkshire.
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint Bibliotherapy Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch. "I love getting these, every time I get one I feel a warm glow."
Thumbprint Bradford 2013
Thumbprint Bradley Tra A tool that supports volunteers to make a difference in their neighbourhood.
Thumbprint Brookvale Park Listening and responding to people's feelings about their local park in Birmingham.
Thumbprint Copleston Together Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch.
Thumbprint Creation Trust Sharing opportunities with local people.
Thumbprint Lifeline Supporting people to make positive choices about themselves and their future.
Thumbprint Natural Language Processing Phd Sponsoring Aisha Jilani's PHD on natural language processing.
Thumbprint Nhc
Thumbprint Nhs And Older People A service sharing useful information for older people.
Thumbprint Ordsall a creative writing project using text messages
Thumbprint Ordsall Creative Texting
Thumbprint Raw Talent Sustaining a volunteer-run peer-to-peer learning group. "I like the group because it builds your confidence...I like the group of people here and we learn quite a bit together. We've just had a course on Asian cooking and it's fantastic."
Thumbprint Young Parents Sharing useful information and parenting tips to support young parents.
Transpennine Games Co-Operative
Voluntext Connecting people who want to volunteer with the opportunities to do it.
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
Women Centre Texting A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Wondrous Place
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2012

Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Activist SMS A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Bbc Learning Research - Maker Culture
Bbc Learning Science Events Proposal
BBC Science Live Events A commission to propose a new way for BBC Learning to do live science events.
Connected Communities Newcastle
Free All Monsters Misunderstood Monsters Free All Monsters tie-in with a theatre production.
Free All Monsters! A worldwide augmented reality monster spotting game begun in 2009.
Futureverything 2012
Institute Of Physics Pub Physics Campaign Engaging people with physics in social settings.
New Idea Of The North
Shared Spaces
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint Bibliotherapy Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch. "I love getting these, every time I get one I feel a warm glow."
Thumbprint Birmingham
Thumbprint Bradley Tra A tool that supports volunteers to make a difference in their neighbourhood.
Thumbprint Brookvale Park Listening and responding to people's feelings about their local park in Birmingham.
Thumbprint Cilip Journal Article
Thumbprint Copleston Together Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch.
Thumbprint Creation Trust Sharing opportunities with local people.
Thumbprint Devon
Thumbprint Knowle West
Thumbprint Lifeline Supporting people to make positive choices about themselves and their future.
Thumbprint Natural Language Processing Phd Sponsoring Aisha Jilani's PHD on natural language processing.
Thumbprint Nhs And Older People A service sharing useful information for older people.
Thumbprint Ordsall a creative writing project using text messages
Thumbprint Ordsall Creative Texting
Thumbprint Panos
Thumbprint Raw Talent Sustaining a volunteer-run peer-to-peer learning group. "I like the group because it builds your confidence...I like the group of people here and we learn quite a bit together. We've just had a course on Asian cooking and it's fantastic."
Thumbprint Watford
Thumbprint Young Foundation
Thumbprint Young Parents Sharing useful information and parenting tips to support young parents.
Transpennine Games Co-Operative
Voluntext Connecting people who want to volunteer with the opportunities to do it.
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
Women Centre Texting A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Wondrous Place
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2011

Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Activist SMS A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Baby Out And About
Bbc Learning Research Researching new technologies and opportunities for BBC Learning Development.
Bbc Thumbprint Ordsall Writers How can the BBC work with small local community organisations?
Crafters Hackers Enterprise Research
Deskskive
Free All Monsters Misunderstood Monsters Free All Monsters tie-in with a theatre production.
Free All Monsters! A worldwide augmented reality monster spotting game begun in 2009.
Huddersfield Social Media Surgeries
Institute Of Physics Pub Physics Campaign Engaging people with physics in social settings.
Listening City
Lunch Benches
Marshotron Designing and playing a location based mobile phone game with a group of teenagers.
Open Access Learning Spaces Research
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint Bibliotherapy Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch. "I love getting these, every time I get one I feel a warm glow."
Thumbprint Birkby News Keeping people up to date with opportunities in their neighbourhood.
Thumbprint Bradley Tra A tool that supports volunteers to make a difference in their neighbourhood.
Thumbprint Brookvale Park Listening and responding to people's feelings about their local park in Birmingham.
Thumbprint Co-Operative A structure to do socially valuable software development.
Thumbprint Copleston Together Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch.
Thumbprint Creating Connections
Thumbprint Electroville
Thumbprint Hackney
Thumbprint Holloway Neighbourhood Group
Thumbprint Hoot
Thumbprint Irwell Housing
Thumbprint Lend An Ear
Thumbprint Make Tick
Thumbprint Natural Language Processing Phd Sponsoring Aisha Jilani's PHD on natural language processing.
Thumbprint Nhs And Older People A service sharing useful information for older people.
Thumbprint Ordsall a creative writing project using text messages
Thumbprint Ordsall Creative Texting
Thumbprint Praxis
Thumbprint Raw Connections
Thumbprint Raw Talent Sustaining a volunteer-run peer-to-peer learning group. "I like the group because it builds your confidence...I like the group of people here and we learn quite a bit together. We've just had a course on Asian cooking and it's fantastic."
Thumbprint United Response
Thumbprint Young Foundation Dalton
Thumbprint Young Parents Sharing useful information and parenting tips to support young parents.
Voluntext Connecting people who want to volunteer with the opportunities to do it.
Where Do I Feel Unsafe Listening to people and acting on concerns about crime in their neighbourhood.
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
Women Centre Texting A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Wondrous Place
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2010

100 Things Battersea Arts Centre
100 Things Eurocultured
100 Things Larkin About
100 Things V And A
Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Any Plan Will Do A fanzine about all sorts of technology and local democracy.
Anywhereblogs Text Message Microblogging A text message microblogging service launched the same year as Twitter and Jaiku.
Anywhereblogs Wap A structure for connecting with other people who pass through the same places.
Battersea Living History
Bbc Learning Research Researching new technologies and opportunities for BBC Learning Development.
Bbc Thumbprint Ordsall Writers How can the BBC work with small local community organisations?
Blink I was co-director of Blink, an arts and technology organisation.
Blogging 2004-2010 I started a blog in 2004 which fizzled out in 2010.
Free All Monsters Irwell Sculpture Trail Consultation Day
Free All Monsters Leicester
Free All Monsters! A worldwide augmented reality monster spotting game begun in 2009.
Huddersfield Social Media Surgeries
Institute Of Physics Pub Physics Campaign Engaging people with physics in social settings.
Irwell Sculpture Trail Consultation Using Thumbprint and an augmented reality game to open conversations about public art.
Listening City
Marshotron Designing and playing a location based mobile phone game with a group of teenagers.
One Hundred Things That Happened Today A live performance of creative writing by text message.
Reboot Britain Nesta
Think Yourself Happy The science of happiness, and how it could be the basis for public health campaigns to increase happiness among large numbers of people.
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint 100 Things Facebook App
Thumbprint Apples Snakes
Thumbprint Battersea Slogan A collaboration with the town centre manager to run a slogan competition for Battersea.
Thumbprint Central Library
Thumbprint Co-Operative A structure to do socially valuable software development.
Thumbprint Facebook App
Thumbprint Fresh Horizons
Thumbprint Gardening
Thumbprint Hackney Homes
Thumbprint Health Champions Sharing health and wellbeing tips with a group of community health champions.
Thumbprint Hillhouse
Thumbprint Irwell Sculpture Trail
Thumbprint Key2work
Thumbprint Kirklees Council
Thumbprint London Poems
Thumbprint Natural Language Processing Phd Sponsoring Aisha Jilani's PHD on natural language processing.
Thumbprint Ordsall a creative writing project using text messages
Thumbprint Ordsall Creative Texting
Thumbprint Surprise Stories
Thumbprint Takeaway Texts
Thumbprint Talk Dalton
Thumbprint Text B And D
Thumbprint Text Hillingdon
Thumbprint Text Newham
Thumbprint Txtspen
Thumbprint Whoever We Are
Torch
Where Do I Feel Unsafe Listening to people and acting on concerns about crime in their neighbourhood.
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Anywhereblogs Text Message Microblogging A text message microblogging service launched the same year as Twitter and Jaiku.
Anywhereblogs Wap A structure for connecting with other people who pass through the same places.
Bbc Learning Research Researching new technologies and opportunities for BBC Learning Development.
Bbc Stories From The Number 4 Bus Mobile audio stories and games for bus passengers about places along their route.
Bbc Thumbprint Ordsall Writers How can the BBC work with small local community organisations?
BBC To Go Working with Jo Claessens on the BBC To Go project.
Blink I was co-director of Blink, an arts and technology organisation.
Blogging 2004-2010 I started a blog in 2004 which fizzled out in 2010.
Crossover Labs Science Edition
Five Trees Forest The Five Trees Forest is an invisible world that is in exactly the same place as our world.
Foldup Comic Alison Mealey's illustrations of anonymous text messages, printed on a folded up A4 sheet.
Free All Monsters At Huddersfield Art Gallery
Free All Monsters Light Night Leeds
Free All Monsters! A worldwide augmented reality monster spotting game begun in 2009.
Free London's Monsters A game using text messages to find or create invisible monsters living on city streets.
Free Manchester's Monsters A game using text messages to find or create invisible monsters living on city streets.
Huddersfield Social Media Surgeries
Institute Of Physics Pub Physics Campaign Engaging people with physics in social settings.
Listening City
Lookup This Seen
Mobile X Young people making mobile phone films about objects in a museum.
One Hundred Things That Happened Today A live performance of creative writing by text message.
Secret Life Of Cumbria Creating a shared map of the culture of a place.
Sxsw Free All Monsters A version of Free All Monsters at SXSW Interactive.
Think Yourself Happy The science of happiness, and how it could be the basis for public health campaigns to increase happiness among large numbers of people.
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint 100 Things
Thumbprint 4ip
Thumbprint Battersea Poems A text message poetry competition with Battersea Literature Festival.
Thumbprint Big Fest
Thumbprint Camden Increasing participation in local democracy. “We are 6 mums and we'd like to plead with you about giving the Winch Project funds so it could carry on the wonderful activities for children. Please as it is the only chance for all low income families. Please.”
Thumbprint Co-Operative A structure to do socially valuable software development.
Thumbprint Fourth Plinth "luis miguel, wherever you are, you are always in our hearts..."
Thumbprint Hcmf
Thumbprint Huddersfield Art Gallery
Thumbprint Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Thumbprint Huddersfield Town Hall
Thumbprint Inkwell
Thumbprint Mobile Search Using natural language processing of text to enable easy, intuitive mobile search through Thumbprint.
Thumbprint Not Part Of
Thumbprint Ordsall a creative writing project using text messages
Thumbprint Ordsall Creative Texting
Thumbprint Patient Opinion
Thumbprint Pvm
Thumbprint Rawconnections
Thumbprint Seen
Thumbprint Tameside Participatory Budgeting Process
Thumbprint Train Text
Thumbprint Walking With Shakespeare An audio walk around places in East London that featured in Shakespeare's life and work.
Where Do I Feel Unsafe Listening to people and acting on concerns about crime in their neighbourhood.
World's Worst Board Game Visualising the community network for Manchester.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Anywhereblogs Text Message Microblogging A text message microblogging service launched the same year as Twitter and Jaiku.
Anywhereblogs Wap A structure for connecting with other people who pass through the same places.
Bbc Learning Sat Nav Narratives
Bbc Stories From The Number 4 Bus Mobile audio stories and games for bus passengers about places along their route.
BBC To Go Working with Jo Claessens on the BBC To Go project.
Blink I was co-director of Blink, an arts and technology organisation.
Blogging 2004-2010 I started a blog in 2004 which fizzled out in 2010.
British Hci Location Based Games Workshop
Chi Florence
East Manchester Smiles
Editing And Publishing Sorry, I haven't finished archiving Urban Music Theatre yet. I'm trying to put together a proper archive, which means writing up 16 years worth of …
Exeter Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Trial Messaging to support people receiving cognitive behavioural therapy.
Five Trees Forest The Five Trees Forest is an invisible world that is in exactly the same place as our world.
Free London's Monsters A game using text messages to find or create invisible monsters living on city streets.
Free Manchester's Monsters A game using text messages to find or create invisible monsters living on city streets.
Inbox
Institute Of Physics Pub Physics Campaign Engaging people with physics in social settings.
Lewes Castle Story Helping Luc, a squire, learn what he needs to become a knight.
Mobile X Young people making mobile phone films about objects in a museum.
Paper Reviewer British Hci Conference 2008
Peepal Tree Press
Pocket Culture
Secret Life Of Cumbria Creating a shared map of the culture of a place.
Short Circuits Film Screenings Regular short film screenings at non-cinema venues in five cities across the Yorkshire region.
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint Bristol Recovery Supporting people with drug and alcohol problems to change.
Thumbprint Futuresonic Futuresonic festival using Thumbprint.
Thumbprint London Launch Activities
Thumbprint Manchester East Manchester
Thumbprint Manningham Library Consultation A welcoming, inclusive way to ask people about the future of their local library. "Plz keep da library open even wen da work on da extension starts v r begin u" "At Manningham library i want a place which is specifically dedicated for the means of studying also with the access of WIFI system"
Thumbprint Mapping Creativity Proposal
Thumbprint Micro Co Ordination
Thumbprint Not Part Of Reviews
Thumbprint Rainbow Haven Texting A shared diary written together by Aboushi, Ahmed, Alpona and Musa, a group of refugees and asylum seekers living in East Manchester.
Thumbprint Shipley
Thumbprint Umt
Urban Music Theatre
Where Were You Happiest To Arrive Posters at bus stops in Manchester that people could respond to by text message.
World's Worst Board Game Visualising the community network for Manchester.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.
Youtube Great Expectations

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2007

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Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Anywhereblogs Text Message Microblogging A text message microblogging service launched the same year as Twitter and Jaiku.
Anywhereblogs Wap A structure for connecting with other people who pass through the same places.
Blink I was co-director of Blink, an arts and technology organisation.
Blogging 2004-2010 I started a blog in 2004 which fizzled out in 2010.
Echo Butlins And Institute Of Physics Exploring the physics of Butlins with Echo the visiting alien girl.
Free London's Monsters A game using text messages to find or create invisible monsters living on city streets.
Free Manchester's Monsters A game using text messages to find or create invisible monsters living on city streets.
Movies
Pocket Culture
Queen Of Silence Interactive Story Outline
RFID Snakes and Ladders A game of Snakes and Ladders played by moving around a building.
Short Circuits Film Screenings Regular short film screenings at non-cinema venues in five cities across the Yorkshire region.
Sing Your Heart Out Pilot Theatre Using text messages to give the audience a way to share their thoughts about a theatre production. "Me as a black gal i once felt lyk standin up and shout at dat dude e p.c`s brother. At e same tym it makez pple realis wt an effect it gv on pple of difrn races. X x chidox x frm leedz"
Text Station A numbers station that broadcast text message poems.
Thumbprint Bristol Recovery Supporting people with drug and alcohol problems to change.
Where Were You Happiest To Arrive Posters at bus stops in Manchester that people could respond to by text message.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2006

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Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Anywhereblogs India Writing poems to be shared by text message in Manchester and India.
Anywhereblogs Text Message Microblogging A text message microblogging service launched the same year as Twitter and Jaiku.
Anywhereblogs Wap A structure for connecting with other people who pass through the same places.
Bbc Innovation Labs Microblogging Proposal
Blink I was co-director of Blink, an arts and technology organisation.
Blogging 2004-2010 I started a blog in 2004 which fizzled out in 2010.
Cell Renewal
Genie Use a magic mirror to find and set free Genies trapped in objects around a building.
Genie Choose Your Own Adventure A choose your own adventure book for navigating round a museum.
Illuminate Using text messages to share updates about arts events in West Yorkshire. "Useful and informative. I would definately like 2 b kept informed by txt about arts events in the Yorks region. Thnq."
Low Budget Short Film Awards
Manchester Literature Festival Anywhereblogs A text message microblogging service launched at Manchester Literature Festival.
Pocket Culture
Pocket Shorts Commissioning films for mobile phones.
Postcards From Fenland Cultures of everyday creativity.
Rotterdam Film Festival Presentaton
Seeds I produced a short film, written and directed by Tajinder Singh Hayer.
Short Circuits Film Screenings Regular short film screenings at non-cinema venues in five cities across the Yorkshire region.
Sing Your Heart Out Pilot Theatre Using text messages to give the audience a way to share their thoughts about a theatre production. "Me as a black gal i once felt lyk standin up and shout at dat dude e p.c`s brother. At e same tym it makez pple realis wt an effect it gv on pple of difrn races. X x chidox x frm leedz"
Viewpoint
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2005

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Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Anywhereblogs Wap A structure for connecting with other people who pass through the same places.
Art Science Research Fellowship The science of co-operation.
Blink I was co-director of Blink, an arts and technology organisation.
Blogging 2004-2010 I started a blog in 2004 which fizzled out in 2010.
Bluetooth Conkers A game of conkers played between two phones by Bluetooth.
Cell Renewal
City Poems A book that you read by walking round a city.
G8WAY New opportunities for young people to take part in arts activities.
Leeds International Film Festival I was the short film programmer for Leeds International Film Festival.
Pocket Shorts Commissioning films for mobile phones.
Postcards From Fenland Cultures of everyday creativity.
Seeds I produced a short film, written and directed by Tajinder Singh Hayer.
Short Circuits Film Screenings Regular short film screenings at non-cinema venues in five cities across the Yorkshire region.
Viewpoint
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2004

Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Anywhereblogs Wap A structure for connecting with other people who pass through the same places.
Area Code A Blink collaboration with Jen Southern.
Art Science Research Fellowship The science of co-operation.
Arts Council Literature Development Conference
Blink I was co-director of Blink, an arts and technology organisation.
Blogging 2004-2010 I started a blog in 2004 which fizzled out in 2010.
Blue Plants Proposal
City Poems A book that you read by walking round a city.
City Poems And Stadschromosomen, Antwerp World Book Capital A sister project to City Poems for Antwerp World Book Capital.
Digital Research Unit Writing
Electric Gardens
Fish Are People Too Blog
G8WAY New opportunities for young people to take part in arts activities.
Leeds International Film Festival I was the short film programmer for Leeds International Film Festival.
Pocket Shorts Commissioning films for mobile phones.
Short Circuits Film Screenings Regular short film screenings at non-cinema venues in five cities across the Yorkshire region.
Tea Garden
Ubicomp Nottingham
What Will Happen When My Mobile Phone Has A Sense Of Smell?
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2003

Blink I was co-director of Blink, an arts and technology organisation.
Centrifugal Forces
City Poems A book that you read by walking round a city.
Leeds International Film Festival I was the short film programmer for Leeds International Film Festival.
Short Circuits Film Screenings Regular short film screenings at non-cinema venues in five cities across the Yorkshire region.
Text Messages A book of poems all short enough to be sent as text messages.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2002

Blink I was co-director of Blink, an arts and technology organisation.
Centrifugal Forces
City Poems A book that you read by walking round a city.
The Guardian Text Message Poetry Competition A text message poetry competition with The Guardian.
Onesixty A text message poetry magazine.
Short Circuits Film Screenings Regular short film screenings at non-cinema venues in five cities across the Yorkshire region.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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2001

Centrifugal Forces
The Guardian Text Message Poetry Competition A text message poetry competition with The Guardian.
Onesixty A text message poetry magazine.
Short Circuits Film Screenings Regular short film screenings at non-cinema venues in five cities across the Yorkshire region.
Speaker's Corner Text Message Poetry
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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The Bus Stop Poems "Poems on the Underground anywhere in the world."
Centrifugal Forces
Onesixty A text message poetry magazine.
Short Circuits Film Screenings Regular short film screenings at non-cinema venues in five cities across the Yorkshire region.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

1999

Before 1999 What I did before I started organising stuff.
Short Circuits Film Screenings Regular short film screenings at non-cinema venues in five cities across the Yorkshire region.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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100 Things Battersea Arts Centre
100 Things Eurocultured
100 Things Larkin About
100 Things V And A
21 Market Place A temporary gallery, studio and events space in an empty shop in Huddersfield.
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Academic Publications I've co-written a few papers, posters and extended abstracts for academic journals, conferences and workshops, mostly about human computer interaction.
Activist SMS A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Amazon Alexa Audiobook Reader Skill
Amazon Alexa Skill
AMPlify West Yorkshire More details coming soon.
Any Plan Will Do A fanzine about all sorts of technology and local democracy.
Anywhereblogs India Writing poems to be shared by text message in Manchester and India.
Anywhereblogs Text Message Microblogging A text message microblogging service launched the same year as Twitter and Jaiku.
Anywhereblogs Wap A structure for connecting with other people who pass through the same places.
Archibio A collaboration between artists, architects and scientists exploring architectural and biological structures from the macro to the nanoscale.
Archways Adaptive architecture research.
Area Code A Blink collaboration with Jen Southern.
Art & Maths Working Group More details coming soon.
Art Science Research Fellowship The science of co-operation.
Arts Council Literature Development Conference
ASMbly A pop-up lab and festival of collaboration between artists, scientists and makers.
Assertive Outreach Team Texting Collaborating on innovation from the front line.
A Hand Drawn Map Of West Yorkshire A hand drawn map of the places in West Yorkshire that people care about.

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Baby Out And About
Basic Machines Working Group More details coming soon.
Battersea Living History
Bbc Innovation Labs Microblogging Proposal
Bbc Learning Research Researching new technologies and opportunities for BBC Learning Development.
Bbc Learning Research - Maker Culture
Bbc Learning Sat Nav Narratives
Bbc Learning Science Events Proposal
BBC Science Live Events A commission to propose a new way for BBC Learning to do live science events.
Bbc Stories From The Number 4 Bus Mobile audio stories and games for bus passengers about places along their route.
Bbc Thumbprint Ordsall Writers How can the BBC work with small local community organisations?
BBC To Go Working with Jo Claessens on the BBC To Go project.
Beekeeping Experiments 01 Beekeeping as a probe to begin testing out a town.
Beekeeping Experiments 02 Beekeeping as a probe to begin testing out a town.
Beekeeping Experiments 03 More details coming soon.
Beekeeping Experiments 04 More details coming soon.
Beetroot Collective Exhibition More details coming soon.
Before 1999 What I did before I started organising stuff.
bioASMbly BioASMbly was an evening event focused on biology that I initiated at the first Superposition ASMbly pop-up lab.
Bioleeds A group of people interested in art, design, and making with biology in Leeds and West Yorkshire.
Bioleeds Collaboration Process A carefully considered structure for ideas generation and collaboration.
Blink I was co-director of Blink, an arts and technology organisation.
Blogging 2004-2010 I started a blog in 2004 which fizzled out in 2010.
Blue Plants Proposal
Bluetooth Conkers A game of conkers played between two phones by Bluetooth.
Brainy Alien
British Hci Location Based Games Workshop

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Care For Carers
Cell Renewal
Centrifugal Forces
Chi Florence
Citizen Art History
City Poems A book that you read by walking round a city.
City Poems And Stadschromosomen, Antwerp World Book Capital A sister project to City Poems for Antwerp World Book Capital.
Concept For A Retractable Roof On Millennium Square In Leeds A proposal developed at my request for the first edition of Hannah Directory in 2013.
Connected Communities Newcastle
Conversations About Regional Democracy In England Hosting conversations about regional democracy in England.
Crafters Hackers Enterprise Research
Crossover Labs Science Edition

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Deskskive
Digital Craft Cafe
Digital Research Unit Writing

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East Manchester Smiles
Echo Butlins And Institute Of Physics Exploring the physics of Butlins with Echo the visiting alien girl.
Editing And Publishing Sorry, I haven't finished archiving Urban Music Theatre yet. I'm trying to put together a proper archive, which means writing up 16 years worth of …
Electric Gardens
Exeter Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Trial Messaging to support people receiving cognitive behavioural therapy.

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Family Centre Christmas Support - WoW! More details coming soon.
Fish Are People Too Blog
Five Trees Forest The Five Trees Forest is an invisible world that is in exactly the same place as our world.
Foldup Comic Alison Mealey's illustrations of anonymous text messages, printed on a folded up A4 sheet.
Free All Monsters At Huddersfield Art Gallery
Free All Monsters Irwell Sculpture Trail Consultation Day
Free All Monsters Leicester
Free All Monsters Light Night Leeds
Free All Monsters Misunderstood Monsters Free All Monsters tie-in with a theatre production.
Free All Monsters! A worldwide augmented reality monster spotting game begun in 2009.
Free London's Monsters A game using text messages to find or create invisible monsters living on city streets.
Free Manchester's Monsters A game using text messages to find or create invisible monsters living on city streets.
Futurestart
Futureverything 2012

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G8WAY New opportunities for young people to take part in arts activities.
Genie Use a magic mirror to find and set free Genies trapped in objects around a building.
Genie Choose Your Own Adventure A choose your own adventure book for navigating round a museum.
Glass Goes Where It Likes To Be An art, science, maker collaboration.

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Hannah Directory A celebration of great stuff happening in places in England's north.
Hannah Directory Fundraiser 2017 A day of workshops in Sheffield to help raise money for the production and distribution costs of Hannah Directory. "Join some of the best artists, makers and writers in England's north for a fantastic afternoon of inspiration that combines all sorts of great stuff from traditional embroidery with electronics to ancient Inca digital databases and the poetry of chance."
Hannah Directory Fundraising
Huddersfield Social Media Surgeries
Hybrid Real World And Zoom Event More details coming soon.

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Illuminate Using text messages to share updates about arts events in West Yorkshire. "Useful and informative. I would definately like 2 b kept informed by txt about arts events in the Yorks region. Thnq."
Image Recognition In Museums Using image recognition to navigate round museums.
Inbox
Institute Of Physics Pub Physics Campaign Engaging people with physics in social settings.
Irwell Sculpture Trail Consultation Using Thumbprint and an augmented reality game to open conversations about public art.

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Knowledge Pool A simple but rigerous tool for more things to happen better.

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Leeds International Film Festival I was the short film programmer for Leeds International Film Festival.
Lewes Castle Story Helping Luc, a squire, learn what he needs to become a knight.
Listening City
Lookup This Seen
Low Budget Short Film Awards
Lunch Benches

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Made In Huddersfield Celebrating and promoting "town-ness". "Two-thirds of us live in small and medium-sized towns."
Manchester Literature Festival Anywhereblogs A text message microblogging service launched at Manchester Literature Festival.
Marshotron Designing and playing a location based mobile phone game with a group of teenagers.
Micro Volunteering Research How can people fit volunteering into their daily lives?
Mixed Reality Lab And Sustrans Residency A research residency shared between Sustrans, the national active travel organisation, and Nottingham University's Mixed Reality Lab (MRL).
Mobile X Young people making mobile phone films about objects in a museum.
Movies

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New Idea Of The North
New Mechanics Institute
Notwestminster Bringing people together to create and share new ideas for doing local democracy.

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One Hundred Things That Happened Today A live performance of creative writing by text message.
Onesixty A text message poetry magazine.
Open Access Learning Spaces Research

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Packhorse Micro Festival I programmed and coordinated a micro festival called Packhorse, named after the venue, a shopping centre in Huddersfield.
Paper Reviewer British Hci Conference 2008
para-lab More details coming soon.
para-lab Report 2021 More details coming soon.
Peepal Tree Press
Piazza Arts Centre Report More details coming soon.
Pocket Culture
Pocket Shorts Commissioning films for mobile phones.
Postcards From Fenland Cultures of everyday creativity.

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Queen Of Silence Interactive Story Outline

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Reboot Britain Nesta
RFID Snakes and Ladders A game of Snakes and Ladders played by moving around a building.
Rotterdam Film Festival Presentaton

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Safe Distance Floor Markings More details coming soon.
Same Skies Network Working for a hopeful, fair, prosperous and inclusive regional democracy in West Yorkshire and beyond.
Same Skies Network And Think Tank More details coming soon.
Secret Life Of Cumbria Creating a shared map of the culture of a place.
Seeds I produced a short film, written and directed by Tajinder Singh Hayer.
Shared Spaces
Short Circuits Film Screenings Regular short film screenings at non-cinema venues in five cities across the Yorkshire region.
Sing Your Heart Out Pilot Theatre Using text messages to give the audience a way to share their thoughts about a theatre production. "Me as a black gal i once felt lyk standin up and shout at dat dude e p.c`s brother. At e same tym it makez pple realis wt an effect it gv on pple of difrn races. X x chidox x frm leedz"
Smilup
Speaker's Corner Text Message Poetry
Stella Tenax More details coming soon.
Step 2 Texting
Stuff Happening In Huddersfield Human curated, robot automated listing of stuff happening in Huddersfield.
Superalloys Working Group More details coming soon.
Superposition I was a co-founder and main organiser of Superposition, a network and space for collaboration between artists, scientists and makers in West Yorkshire.
Superposition Commission A £2000 commission to fund an artist, craftsperson or cross-disciplinary group to explore scientific research.
Superposition Pale Ale Looking at the physics of biology through brewing a beer.
Sustrans Staff And Volunteers Python Programming Group A structure for Sustrans staff and volunteers to share Python programming knowledge.
Sxsw Free All Monsters A version of Free All Monsters at SXSW Interactive.

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The Bus Stop Poems "Poems on the Underground anywhere in the world."
The Guardian Text Message Poetry Competition A text message poetry competition with The Guardian.
The Making Space I am one of the founder members and main organisers of The Making Space.
Tang Hall Dynamo
Tea Garden
Text Messages A book of poems all short enough to be sent as text messages.
Text Station A numbers station that broadcast text message poems.
Textile Proteins Looking at patterns, surfaces, materials, and ways of stitching and embroidering.
Think Yourself Happy The science of happiness, and how it could be the basis for public health campaigns to increase happiness among large numbers of people.
Thumbprint A platform for prototyping, developing and sustaining socially valuable uses of mobile messaging.
Thumbprint 100 Things
Thumbprint 100 Things Facebook App
Thumbprint 4ip
Thumbprint Apples Snakes
Thumbprint Battersea Poems A text message poetry competition with Battersea Literature Festival.
Thumbprint Battersea Slogan A collaboration with the town centre manager to run a slogan competition for Battersea.
Thumbprint Bibliotherapy Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch. "I love getting these, every time I get one I feel a warm glow."
Thumbprint Big Fest
Thumbprint Birkby News Keeping people up to date with opportunities in their neighbourhood.
Thumbprint Birmingham
Thumbprint Bradford 2013
Thumbprint Bradley Community House
Thumbprint Bradley Tra A tool that supports volunteers to make a difference in their neighbourhood.
Thumbprint Bristol Recovery Supporting people with drug and alcohol problems to change.
Thumbprint Brookvale Park Listening and responding to people's feelings about their local park in Birmingham.
Thumbprint Camden Increasing participation in local democracy. “We are 6 mums and we'd like to plead with you about giving the Winch Project funds so it could carry on the wonderful activities for children. Please as it is the only chance for all low income families. Please.”
Thumbprint Central Library
Thumbprint Chickenley Keeping people up to date with opportunities in their neighbourhood. "The numbers were up 100% on what we would have expected and I think a large chunk of that increase is from Thumbprint."
Thumbprint Cilip Journal Article
Thumbprint Co-Operative A structure to do socially valuable software development.
Thumbprint Copleston Together Improving and sustaining mental wellbeing through keeping in touch.
Thumbprint Creating Connections
Thumbprint Creation Trust Sharing opportunities with local people.
Thumbprint Crosland Moor Community Learning Centre
Thumbprint Devon
Thumbprint Dragon Cafe
Thumbprint Electroville
Thumbprint Facebook App
Thumbprint Fourth Plinth "luis miguel, wherever you are, you are always in our hearts..."
Thumbprint Fresh Horizons
Thumbprint Futuresonic Futuresonic festival using Thumbprint.
Thumbprint Gardening
Thumbprint Growing Newsome
Thumbprint Hackney
Thumbprint Hackney Homes
Thumbprint Hcmf
Thumbprint Health Champions Sharing health and wellbeing tips with a group of community health champions.
Thumbprint Healthwatch
Thumbprint Hillhouse
Thumbprint Holloway Neighbourhood Group
Thumbprint Hoot
Thumbprint Huddersfield Art Gallery
Thumbprint Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Thumbprint Huddersfield Town Hall
Thumbprint Inkwell
Thumbprint Irwell Housing
Thumbprint Irwell Sculpture Trail
Thumbprint Key2work
Thumbprint Kirklees Council
Thumbprint Knh
Thumbprint Knowle West
Thumbprint Lend An Ear
Thumbprint Lifeline Supporting people to make positive choices about themselves and their future.
Thumbprint London Launch Activities
Thumbprint London Poems
Thumbprint Make Tick
Thumbprint Manchester East Manchester
Thumbprint Manningham Library Consultation A welcoming, inclusive way to ask people about the future of their local library. "Plz keep da library open even wen da work on da extension starts v r begin u" "At Manningham library i want a place which is specifically dedicated for the means of studying also with the access of WIFI system"
Thumbprint Mapping Creativity Proposal
Thumbprint Micro Co Ordination
Thumbprint Mobile Search Using natural language processing of text to enable easy, intuitive mobile search through Thumbprint.
Thumbprint Natural Language Processing Phd Sponsoring Aisha Jilani's PHD on natural language processing.
Thumbprint Nhc
Thumbprint Nhs And Older People A service sharing useful information for older people.
Thumbprint Not Part Of
Thumbprint Not Part Of Reviews
Thumbprint Notwestminster
Thumbprint Ordsall a creative writing project using text messages
Thumbprint Ordsall Creative Texting
Thumbprint Panos
Thumbprint Patient Opinion
Thumbprint Praxis
Thumbprint Pvm
Thumbprint Rainbow Haven Texting A shared diary written together by Aboushi, Ahmed, Alpona and Musa, a group of refugees and asylum seekers living in East Manchester.
Thumbprint Raw Connections
Thumbprint Raw Talent Sustaining a volunteer-run peer-to-peer learning group. "I like the group because it builds your confidence...I like the group of people here and we learn quite a bit together. We've just had a course on Asian cooking and it's fantastic."
Thumbprint Rawconnections
Thumbprint Same Skies
Thumbprint Seen
Thumbprint Shipley
Thumbprint Somers Town Big Local
Thumbprint Southwark Wellbeing
Thumbprint Surprise Stories
Thumbprint Sustrans Ellesmere Port
Thumbprint Takeaway Texts
Thumbprint Talk Dalton
Thumbprint Tameside Participatory Budgeting Process
Thumbprint Text B And D
Thumbprint Text Hillingdon
Thumbprint Text Newham
Thumbprint Train Text
Thumbprint Txtspen
Thumbprint Umt
Thumbprint United Response
Thumbprint Walking With Shakespeare An audio walk around places in East London that featured in Shakespeare's life and work.
Thumbprint Watford
Thumbprint Whoever We Are
Thumbprint Young Foundation
Thumbprint Young Foundation Dalton
Thumbprint Young Parents Sharing useful information and parenting tips to support young parents.
Thumprint South London And Maudsley Nhs Trust
Torch
Town Lab
Tracking AMPlify West Yorkshire More details coming soon.
Transpennine Games Co-Operative

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Ubicomp Nottingham
Unit 15 A temporary gallery, studio and events space in an empty shop in Huddersfield.
University Of Leeds Creative Labs
Upstairs At 21 Market Place Experimental music concerts.
Urban Music Theatre

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Viewpoint
Voluntext Connecting people who want to volunteer with the opportunities to do it.

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Web Development More details coming soon.
West Yorkshire Markets More details coming soon.
West Yorkshire Walks More details coming soon.
What Kind Of Region What kind of region do we want to live in and why?
What Will Happen When My Mobile Phone Has A Sense Of Smell?
Where Do I Feel Unsafe Listening to people and acting on concerns about crime in their neighbourhood.
Where Were You Happiest To Arrive Posters at bus stops in Manchester that people could respond to by text message.
Who Owns My Neighbourhood What personal responsibility are we each willing to take for the place where we live?
Women Centre Texting A website that makes it easy to use texting in socially valuable ways.
Wondrous Place
World's Worst Board Game Visualising the community network for Manchester.
WoW! A development of, and replacement for, Thumbprint, that I programmed in Python.
Writing I've written all sorts of things.

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Youtube Great Expectations

PEOPLE

Some of the people I have worked with and learned from. This is a very incomplete list.

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Imran Ali, Kostas Arvanitis, Nicole Avison, Ryoko Akama

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Akeelah Bertram, Alice Bradshaw, Angela Bejarano-Villafuerte, Anthony Brown, Belinda Blackburn, Dan Blackburn, Dan Burnett, David Bolton, Frank Boyd, Griet Beyaert, Jorge Boehringer, Jude Brereton, Katie Brown, Paul Beales, Richard Bates, Tom Beesley, Will Bamford

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Annie Carpenter, Barbara Ciani, Ben Childs, Ed Carlisle, Eleanor Cully, Emma Cheshire, Erin Cowrig, Jenny Chapman, Jo Claessens, Joe Corcoran, John Coburn, Paul Coulton, Rachel Calam, Sophia Collins, Younes Chahid

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Ali Dore, Ben Dalton, Eric Delmont, Jana Dostalova, Lorna Dougan, Richard Dawson, Rochyne Delaney, Ross Dalziel

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Elisa Etemad, Matt Edgar, Nicola Ellis, Richard England, Trae England

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Fartown Forest, Lorinda Freint, Martin Figura, Pete Fitzpatrick, Tom Forth, Ua Fanthorpe

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Chris Greenhalgh, Jo Galloway, Kevin Glover, Kevin Gopal, Rhiannon Gregory

H

Amy Hirst, Amy Hurst, Derek Hales, Dominic Hopkinson, Drew Hemment, Eunsuk Hur, Graham Hawkes, Hetty Hughes, Julia Honess, Kevin Harris, Laura Harrison, Lee Hutchinson, Mandeep Hothi, Michelle Harrison, Sam Hay, Sue Hayton, Toby Hyams, Tom Holley

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Finger Industries

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Aisha Jilani, Kate Jessop, Lars Jeuken, Tania Jacobs, Val Johnson

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Alison Kershaw, Krisztina Katona, Shamshad Khan, Stefan Kolgen, Vic Keegan

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Ann Laenen, Ashley Lucas, Dave Lynch, Jenny Lee, Jo Leng, Joanna Leng, Kate Lund, Len Lauk, Linda Lewis, Mark Lochrie, Matt Locke, Rachael Loftus, Toni Lee

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Alison Mealey, Aoife Mannix, Chris Meads, Hannah Moradi, Ian Martin, Jasmine Matthews, Lawrence Molloy, Lee Mccluskey, Mel Morley, Neil Mckenna, Sam Meach, Sam Mills, Shay Moradi, Simon Mackie, Stuart Mallinson, Tanya Meditzky, Victoria Mapplebeck

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Jo Naylor, Neil Nisbet

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Cecilia Oram, Vicky Ola

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Gill Park, Jeremy Perkins

Q

Joanna Quaye

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Asma Raja, Darren Reed, Hemin Rasul, Holly Rothwell, Katherine Rooney, Lisa Roberts, Lizzy Ross, Martin Radich, Michael Rimicans, Myra Rowland, Re-Dock Re-Dock, Sarah Rodgerson, Stefan Rennick

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Alex Schafran, Andy Sykes, Ann Sansom, Caro Snatch, Cat Scott, Chris Stephen, Diana Spurite, Diane Sims, Holger Schnadelbach, Jen Southern, Jocelyn Spence, Katherine Sansom, Kelly Smith, Kim Searle, Mike Scantlebury, Narinder Samra, Peter Sansom, Renu Setna, Stuart Suede, Tajinder Singh, Vasiliki Skepetari

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Bruce Turnbull, Leila Taleb, Mandy Tomkin, Nicola Twynham, Paul Turner, Steve Tuck, Vicky Thompson

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David Velez, Lina Velandia

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Annie Watson, Ben Whitaker, Brent Woods, Darren Wilson, Elizabeth Willneff, Harley Watson, Helen Williamson, Hugh Wilson, Jane Wood, Jo Whitaker, Julie Walker, Patrischia Warmington, Rachael Walker, Robert Weetman, Sharron Wilkinson

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Paola Zanotto