The  Cloudmaker  Project  

Dr  Mark  Wright  FACT  Lecturer  in  Crea/vity  and  Digital  Embodiment  

Liverpool  School  of  Art  and  Design  Liverpool  John  Moores  University  

TwiCer:  @dr_mark_wright    

Sarah  Bailey  Head  of  Engagement    

FACT  Liverpool  TwiCer:  @sarahlearns  

ITAAU  Network  Mee?ng  June  19th  2014

What  are  we  trying  to  achieve?  

•  The  cultural  significance  of  the  digital  is  that  it  brings  new  forms  of  embodiment  and  interac/on  into  the  world  

•  New  ways  of  doing  and  thinking  lead  to  the  evolu.on  of  prac/ce,  meaning  and  being  

What  are  we  trying  to  achieve?  

•  Knowledge  is  oMen  embedded  tacitly,  physically  and  socially  

•  So  such  evolu/on  is  not  possible  either  through  technologically  centred  development  focused  on  requirements  capture  or  passive  ethnographic  study  of  exis/ng  prac/ce  

•  The  new  fron/er  of  enquiry  is  inherently  interdisciplinary  crea/ve  and  prac/ce  focused  in  nature.    

Research  Disciplines  as  Silos  The  Silos  get  their  form  from  the  internal  consistency  of  each  field  not  the  possible  uses  of  the  knowledge  they  contain    Don’t  get  rid  of  the  silos!  They  are  raw  materials  of  innova/on        

Mul/ple  Silo  Exploita/on    But  we  need  to  do  more  …  To  use  informa/c,  Scien/fic  and  Humani/es  knowledge  we  need  to  reach  into  and  across  the  silos  of  the  discipline  and  crea/vely  contextualize  this  knowledge  into  cultural  situa/ons  through  design.    A  new  approach? There  may  be  more  than  the  mee/ng  different  disciplines  here  but  a  new  approach  to  enquiry  and  crea/vity?  

Research  by  Design:  An  enac?ve  model  of  enquiry  

•  Co-­‐design  with  real  communi/es  •  Cross  disciplinary  Research  •  Collabora/ve  Design  Briefs    •  Intensive  short  technical  and  

design  innova/on,  reflec/on  and  innova/on  

•  Meaning  unfolds  through  play  •  Exploring  the  cultural  significance  

of  the  digital  •  Inven/ng  the  future  by  exploring  

spaces  of  possibility  and  iden/fying  /pping  points  

Design Brief Outcome “Invisible Art”

FACT    ‘Founda?on  for  Art  and  Crea?ve  Technology’  One  of  Europe’s  leading  Centers  for  Digital  Art  Large  Scale  Public  Engagement  Communi/es  Impact    

Art  School  Digital  Co-­‐Design  Embedded  Shared  Post  between  LJMU  and  FACT

LJMU  and  Partners  Social  Science  Informa/cs  Science  Art  and  Humani/es  Developers  Ar/sts  Public  Bodies  Industry  

Academia  and  Cultural  Ins?tu?ons    A  Novel  Embedded  Model  of  Collabora?on  

Cloudmaker  

 •  Social  Design  ac?vity  focusing  on  a  real  brown  field  site  •  Extension  of  MinecraY  –  huge  interest  and  skills  base  •  Inclusion  of  3D  Prin?ng  Server  –  physical  digital  divide  •  Design  Process  includes  Physical  Design  and  Making  •  Social  online  sharing  of  designs  •  Internet  of  things    -­‐communica?on  between  MinecraY  (a  metaverse)  

and  the  Real  world  •  Explora?on  of  advanced  interac?on  techniques  

An  Internet  U?lity  to  support    collabora?ve  design                    between  young  people  

Co-­‐Design  Process  

 •  Co-­‐design  sessions  with  students  and  teachers  of  Studio  School  •  Co-­‐design  with  Families  •  Meta-­‐design  –  not  a  ‘product’  but  an  explora?on  of  what  a  system  

should  look  like  to  support  design  by  others  

PrintcraM  

MinecraY  Server  Mod  that  supports  3D  prin?ng  Created  by  collaborator  Paul  Harter  Extended  on  Cloudmaker  to  include  social  sharing    

Tangible  Interac/on  with  Immersive  Worlds  

Objects  and  buildings  designed  by  students  in  MinecraY  Objects  3D  Printed  by  Students  Objects  act  as  Tangible  interfaces  on  a  Reac?ve  Table  Simultaneous  interac?on  with  tangible  interface  and  immersive  world  

The  MinecraM  of  Things  

Students  build  ‘shimp’  computer  (one  chip  Arduino)  Physical  Interface  via  USB  Programming  in  Python  to  pass  messages  between  MinecraY  and  the  Real  world  

Listen:  Sarah  Bailey  FACT  Head  of  Public  Engagement  Large  Scale  Public  Engagement  Communi/es  Impact    

Cloudmaker  Show  and  Tell  

Watch:  Mark  Wright  FACT/LJMU  FACT  MinecraY  ITAAU  Demo  Live  link  with  Germany  

Cloudmaker  Movie  

Cloudmaker  Rollout  

Now  Public  Server  FACT  Future    Broadcaster?  

Future?  Rapsberry  Pi  Local  Server  and  Content  

Now  Server  Bundle  Future  Open  Source  Bundle  of  code  and  content  

Thanks!  The  Cloudmaker  Project  

Dr  Mark  Wright  FACT  Lecturer  in  Crea/vity  and  Digital  Embodiment  

Liverpool  School  of  Art  and  Design  Liverpool  John  Moores  University  

TwiCer:  @dr_mark_wright    

Sarah  Bailey  Head  of  Engagement    

FACT  Liverpool  TwiCer:  @sarahlearns  

ITAAU  Network  Mee?ng  June  19th  2014