RCUK Digital Economy All Hands///Digital Futures Conference

Members of the SerenA Team co-ordinated, delivered  and participated in ‘Mediating Connections: The Role of Emerging Technologies in Transforming and Presenting Information and Ideas’ as partof the RCUK DE All Hands Digital Futures Conference. The workshop brought together SerenA, ToTEM and Patina Digital Economy Research  Projects.

SerenA Team members Ann Blandford, Sarah Sharples and Mel Woods delivered  Session 1 ‘Integrating arts, engineering and interaction design: Requirements Gathering and Novel Approaches’.

The workshop was split into 3 parts:

Individual responses to the question ‘What is Serendipity?

‘Your Serendipitous Future’ explored future ways might we wish to encounter serendipity in our own life.

What would you as an individual like as tools, space and conditions in the world to enable you to make connections with each other and in your research, work or life?

‘Designs on Serendipity’ saw self selecting teams model their scenarios, tools, artefacts, sounds, feelings, spaces and acted out examples that might support people to have serendipitous encounters.