Monthly Archives: May 2012
I'm Dr. Stephann Makri from UCL Interaction Centre and have spent many months interviewing people as part of the SerenA project and asking them to give me their memorable examples of serendipity (which I call 'serendipity stories'). Several of ...
- Creativity | Method | serendipity | Story | UCL
SerenA will run a workshop 'Performing Serendipitous Connections' at Performing Worlds, a public art, performance and education event taking place in a variety of locations across Dundee between 9th - 15th June 2012. Workshop: Performing Serendipitous Connections Lead by: Debbie ...
- Artist | Creativity | Debbie Maxwell | Dundee | Festival | Mel Woods | Workshop
The Digital Human. BBC Radio 4
Mel Woods and the SerenA project will feature in the last programme 'Chance' in BBC Radio 4's The Digital Human series, to be aired on 11th June, at 16.30. The programme will be asking whether it is possible to encounter ...
Serendipity as a Method for Creative Practice
Serendipity in practice has been well-documented in the history of discovery and innovations in science, now, in contemporary digital life there appears to be a resurgence of interest in the fleeting phenomenon. It is that it is more prevalent in ...
- Art | Chance | Creative Practice | Creativity | Mel Woods | Method | serendipity
SerenA at ‘Digital Conversations’ British Library
Digital Conversations @ British Library Profiling & Privacy 25th May, 2012 In a quest to provide relevant and personalised experiences for users, institutions are having to navigate the fuzzy intersection between user profiling and privacy. As technology makes the collection and processing of ...
Stephann Makri tells ‘Serendipity Stories’ in Canada
Stephann Makri has recently presented some of his 'serendipity stories' at McGill University in Montréal. These stories are digital video summaries of serendipitous experiences described by academic researchers in interviews - where Stephann asked researchers to provide him with a ...
as luck would have it…
To write a paragraph or two about SerenA, I set out for a stroll to get the grey matter moving. As I walk, the wind blows a raggedy old comic across my path. The pages lie open to reveal the ...
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