Tag Archives: Dundee

Serendipity to be celebrated and explored at events in Dundee

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE Serendipity to be celebrated and explored at events A University of Dundee-led project exploring the role of serendipity in research will host a series of events this month looking at the subject in different disciplines ...

Building Reflection into Design.

In a break from my normal blogging style, what follows is taken from a SerenA paper (D. Maxwell & M. Woods, Encouraging Reflexivity in Mobile Interactions) presented at the recent Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) ...

The Semantic Notebook App

In my previous post ‘Taking the digital notebook a step further‘ we talked about the various ways in which people use their notebook and how they draw connections between different ideas. We highlighted the pro’s and con’s of digital note ...

Community Radio Broadcast ‘Blue Skies Festival’

On Saturday 11th August 2012, SerenA played a part in the community radio broadcast at 'Blue Skies Festival', Dundee’s festival of kite flying, stargazing and rainbow chasing which runs from 10 to 12 August 2012. Blue Skies will be bringing a ...

The Serendipitous Community: SerenA at the Small Society Lab

Last month, SerenA took part in the Small Society Lab at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA). This included a panel discussion around the idea of the Serendipitous Community; a space where connections can be made and serendipity encouraged. Chaired by Mel Woods, ...

The Multi-Coloured Vision of SerenA

We seem to be in the middle of a very busy, exciting spell of SerenA events in Dundee. We're running three events next week as part of Dundee's Small Society Lab; a lunchtime discussion around the controversial 'Can we engineer ...

Small Society Lab 2012: Panel and Workshops

The SerenA Project has been invited to be a partner in this years 'Small Society Lab 2012'. WHAT IS THE SMALL SOCIETY LAB? SSL2012 is a pop up research space to connect art, design and technology and communities situated in the ...

The Roles & Personalities of SerenA

Here at the SerenA Design Team (based at DJCAD, University of Dundee), we've recently been thinking less about the functionality of SerenA and more about the emotional impact we want SerenA to have. (If you've somehow landed on this page ...

Performing Worlds: Performing Serendipitous Connections

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 ...

Chance Favours the Prepared Mind

As one of the newest members on the SerenA project, I've spent the last four weeks trying to get my head around what SerenA is, what forms SerenA will take, and what SerenA will actually look like. And, naturally enough, ...