My Space, My City, My World
My Space, My City, My World was a three day conference for year 10 students in south east London, based at the Steven Lawrence Centre in Deptford. Material Beliefs was invited by Ignite! to run two of the workshops, other project partners included Aspire, London Engineering Projectand the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. Here’s something about the event from the Ignite page:
The conference aims to build young people’s confidence in making their voices heard in the places where decisions are made about design, engineering, economics and the future.
My Space, My City, My World will explore individual students’ personal ‘footprint’, their views about the urban landscape, and the way the world is going. Workshops will be led by young, keen and green entrepreneurs, designers, scientists and engineers – and debates will explore how one person can make a difference.
On tuesday, Tony Cass and I lead a workshop an DNA profiling, which responded to technology from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and DNA Electronics. Elio Caccavale and Mark Hammond lead a workshop on thursday based around the Animat project at the University of Reading. The aim was to encourage the students to design their own products and services around these emerging technologies.
above: a design for a cyborg
above: service design for DNA profiling