Urban Learning Space Seminars

Urban Learning Space Seminars

This podcast series features inspirational talks by some of the most innovative educational consultants and developers in the world. They have been recorded at the Urban Learning Space in The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland. Urban Learning Space is a learning lab equipping the people of Scotland with the capabilities to face the challenges of 21st century life. Urban Learning Space was established with core funding from Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. We are working with people around Scotland to address real life challenges. Our network of experts are using transformational design practice to promote individuals’ capacities for change. Nurturing an innate capacity for learning by using collaborative design processes, we create new approaches. These range from the building of creativity tools to support innovation, transforming public spaces into learning landscapes, and harnessing emerging technologies to explore new learning contexts.

Episodes

Vital Signs: Marks, Codes and the Future, part 1

August 15, 2008 • 79 mins
Knowing what is the 'next big thing' is a factor in success and survival: no surprise then that the study of signs is known as 'semiotics' from the greek word for oracle. But how does one become good at reading signs and why does it matter so much? Signs dominate everyday life: they can be natural signs, for example a rumble in the sky gives advance notice of a thunderstorm, emotional signs, such as a smile, or manufactured road s...
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Ourselves, Online: A Musician's Quest For A New Business Model In The Age Of Networks (part 2)

July 23, 2008 • 39 mins
The music business is in meltdown - and professional musicians are having to re-assess everything about how they sustain their livelihoods. If people simply won't pay £15 for a CD from the high street, what will they pay for? Recorded music is tending towards being ubiquitous and free(ish), but live music is tending towards high prices for a unique experience. In the face of these trends, how can the power of the internet - particu...
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Ourselves, Online: A Musician's Quest For A New Business Model In The Age Of Networks (part 1)

July 9, 2008 • 76 mins
The music business is in meltdown - and professional musicians are having to re-assess everything about how they sustain their livelihoods. If people simply won't pay £15 for a CD from the high street, what will they pay for? Recorded music is tending towards being ubiquitous and free(ish), but live music is tending towards high prices for a unique experience. In the face of these trends, how can the power of the internet - particu...
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Learning Spaces, Working Places (part 2)

May 13, 2008 • 49 mins
There is a revolution in the design of learning spaces all round the world and inevitably this is now impacting on the design of corporate space too. As corporations aspire to become learning organisations and move away from their training rooms and training culture they're increasing looking to designs for schools to inform their transformation. At the same time the design of schools and universities has much to learn from the rad...
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Learning Spaces, Working Places (part 1)

May 13, 2008 • 70 mins
There is a revolution in the design of learning spaces all round the world and inevitably this is now impacting on the design of corporate space too. As corporations aspire to become learning organisations and move away from their training rooms and training culture they're increasing looking to designs for schools to inform their transformation. At the same time the design of schools and universities has much to learn from the rad...
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Understanding the Peer to Peer Revolution

April 22, 2008 • 109 mins
Because of the increased distributed nature of production technology, not just for immaterial production but for physical production as well, it is increasingly possible to imagine modes of social life which combine re-localised production with global open design communities. How can we move away from a world that is based on a false notion that the natural world is abundant, and on a equally false notion that we need to impede the...
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The EUREKA! Process and Pathways to Creativity

April 7, 2008 • 85 mins
Creativity is a highly valuable and desirable quality, which appears to defy our attempts at understanding it. Despite much scientific research effort, creativity remains infuriatingly elusive. It seems that the very act of scientifically researching creativity makes it evaporate like Daphne. Could it be that we are looking in the wrong place? If however, we try to understand creativity from the *view of the creative practitioner*...
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Assessment 2.0: Modernising Assessment for the 21st Century

March 19, 2008 • 66 mins
This talk challenged orthodoxy in assessment. The speaker, Bobby Elliot, has overall responsibility for all vocational (ICT) assessment within the college and workplace sectors in Scotland. Bobby has a professional and personal interest in assessment (particularly e-assessment) and digital technologies (Web 2.0)...hence the blending of the two into "Assessment 2.0". He evaluated past and present forms of assessment and considered...
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Everybody Get Loud: Consumer Generated Content Monitoring

March 5, 2008 • 92 mins
In an age where a blog post or a video on YouTube is challenging mainstream media as a source for global attention, it becomes increasingly important for business and the community to be aware of what is happening online in social networking spaces. But when MySpace has 200 million users, and Facebook 55 million, YouTube has around 57 million videos uploaded, and consumers are spending more and more time on their PC instead of in f...
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Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 3)

February 6, 2008 • 41 mins
The third part of the Podcasting in Creative Business seminar recording is the presentation by each of the three groups to everybody participating of the plans they devised during the afternoon session. We listen to each of the presentations and discuss how we think each one would work in the real world. Everybody is encouraged to join in.
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Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 2)

February 6, 2008 • 26 mins
The second recording from the Podcasting in Creative Business Development seminar contains extracts from the three group discussions. Group one was discussing how to create a podcast series as part of a marketing campaign for Innocent Drinks. Group two were planning to use podcasting in internal communications for East Lothian Council. The third group had to make money from selling their podcast of Time Out Travel guides.
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Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 1)

February 6, 2008 • 70 mins
Part one of the recording from new media production company Inner Ear's Podcasting in Creative Business Development seminar contextualises the medium, showing how it fits within social networks, online communities and blogging. Examples are drawn from the three areas Inner Ear cover in the course of this seminar: external marketing, internal communications and business development. After going over background, context and exampl...
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Build Your Own World: User Generated Content, Second Life and Creative Commons

November 27, 2007 • 111 mins
Andres Guadamuz is an academic interested in the ownership implications of new technologies; in particular he researches intellectual property issues in User Generated Content and the so-called Web 2.0 phenomenon. He delivered a presentation in which he looked at the creation of urban spaces within so-called virtual worlds, such as the popular environment known as Second Life. He asked about the ownership issues that surround the...
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Innovation: a Personal View (part 2)

November 20, 2007 • 75 mins
Dr. Chris Yapp's Futures thinking seminar, part two, a group discussion.
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Innovation: a Personal View (part 1)

November 20, 2007 • 66 mins
This event was a three-hour interactive workshop on futures thinking, innovation and entrepreneurship. As a much abused term, the seminar helped attendees understand and measure how innovative they are, whether they would recognise innovation and what part technology plays in innovation.
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New Literacies for the 21st Century Citizen

November 6, 2007 • 73 mins
The vast majority of those with whom we work, live and play are probably more digital immigrants than digital natives. Yet 2007 marks the first time that 16 year olds entering the work place will have been brought up their entire life with the world-wide-web. What opportunities lie in store for business, government and those who choose to create their own 'global microbrand'? The scope for new practices and expertise is there, bu...
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Computer Games in the Classroom: Frivolous Folk Devils or Powerful Learning Tools?

October 11, 2007 • 47 mins
Derek Robertson discussed a number of games based pilots that he has initiated and supported in Scottish schools over the past year. He also delivered an impassioned and informed series of arguments as to why games based learning has a vital role to play in creating contexts for learning that resonate with and motivate the digital native that we now find in Scottish schools. The benefits, practicalities and challenges of classroo...
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What Makes Me Me? Part 9: The Way Forward by Professor Nigel Osborne, OBE

October 5, 2007 • 12 mins
In part nine Professor Nigel Osborne, MBE concludes the What Makes Me Me? conference.
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What Makes Me Me? Part 8: Questions from the conference to Robert Winston and Michael O'Neill

October 5, 2007 • 18 mins
Part eight is a group discussion question and answer session hosted by Robert Winston, Michael O'Neil and Keir Bloomer.
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What Makes Me Me? Part 7: The Learning Mind by Professor Lord Robert Winston

October 5, 2007 • 33 mins
Part seven is the second of two lectures by Sir Robert Winston.
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