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Harvesting the Sea – Greyabbey
“Over 800 years ago people here used ingenious ways to gather the fruits of the sea … and one family would make a fortune from the lough itself… There is a fascinating story to this village by the...
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London Knowledge Café Revitalised: What are the Strongest Motives for...
Wednesday 7th February 2024 at 6 pm to 9 pm at Regents University London The last face to face London knowledge café facilitated by David Gurteen was based on the question ‘what knowledge, skills and...
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Case of Reusing Skills – Arnside
The Crossfields family came to Arnside, a small village in the Morecambe Bay estuary, in 1815 and they specialized in carpentry skills to build wooden boats (see Figure 1). Although the Crossfields’...
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Creative Indulgence
During the Knowledge Café conversation on 7th February 2024 (Sharp, 2024) an interesting dichotomy was articulated. Creative outputs can happen under pressure and according to need (necessity is the...
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Geoffrey Burnstock
Geoffrey Burnstock (see Figure 1) tried many things in life but the Times obituary for him said this: “He then studied for a PhD at King’s and University College London in the movements of fish guts....
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AI and Acting
There is a lot of discussion in the media and business about the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the potential replacement of humans with AI (Krotoski and Fong, 2024 and see Figure 1)....
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Identification and Protection against AI-Generated Content
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used for a multiplicity of creative ends but some of these can be dangerous. For example, deepfake material {synthetic material created by manipulating images or...
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Creative Innovations for Traditional Luxury Brands
Two managing directors and one Chief Executive Officer (CEO) gave presentations at Regents University London in Spring 2024. In their presentations they addressed issues about challenges they face in...
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Creating a Forest of Thoughts
This week I ran a watercolour workshop for staff and students at a university in central London. The workshop was to help people enjoy a creative experience in Stress Awareness Month (Regents...
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Drones
“A drone is called an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), or an unmanned aircraft system (UAS).” (Alley-Young, 2024, p. 1) This is how Alley-Young describes a drone. The...
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