Here’s a recent RSA guest post with insights from South West Futures and next steps. Thanks everyone who helped make it happen – let’s build on it and keep raising our game.
Reflections on South West Futures
Revealing Hidden Histories
Hidden Histories:
Archive Volunteers Visual Storytelling as part of ethnographic research
On 17th January we invited some volunteers to tell us about their favourite images from the Old Beaford Archive, as part of an HLF supported user research project exploring the potential to digitize and further develop the Beaford Archive of over 80,000 20th Century images and audio recordings in North Devon.
Policy Design Jam at Northern Futures
In October 2014 we ran one of eight rapid innovation Open Ideas Days for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and The Cabinet Office in the North of England to identify barriers and solutions to economic growth. These simultaneous policy jam events brought together business leaders, technologists, designers, academics, policy makers and young people, to collaborate, problem solve and create ideas to inform new-generation policy making.
The ideas and solutions generated were then shortlisted and debate at a policy development summit, leading to significant funding of a number of projects to boost regional innovation and growth.