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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Dundee
Interactive Newsprint LEP (prototype). Demonstrated at Venues: London Design Festival (2012); Unbox Festival, Delhi, India (2013); MIT Media Labs/Mozilla-Knight showcase at South By South West, Austin, US (2013).
Printed and Plastic Electronics is an emerging technology that has very recently reached a point of application to the news industry. We have built a number of physical prototypes that demonstrates the capacity and capability of this emerging technology for the news industry. The most documented and tested of these is a one-off Interactive Newsprint edition of the Lancashire Evening Post (LEP) that was exhibited at London Design Festival in 2012. The idea for the LEP demonstrator emerged at a community co-design workshop held in Preston in November 2010. Subsequent workshops were held with the LEP editors, reporters and designers to build a bespoke one-off demonstrator to show the potential of a newspaper connected to the internet. The prototype was then tested in a series of design evaluation workshops over a period of three months. These workshops included a wide variety of people from Preston (community leaders, news editors and jounralists, members of the public, bloggers and families), a workshop at the Guadian and testing at London Design Festival, Mozilla Festiva and Unbox Festival (India). Rogers has been invited to build and evaluate a demonstrator for Grupo RBS (3 largest media organisation in Brasil with a readership of 1million). :
The core insight gained is that connecting paper to the internet provides, for the first-time, a step-change in the way metrics are generated for distribution and use of content.
The international impact and scope of this research is demonstrated through a range of activitives that include: A collaborative Doctoral Training Award for a Novalia funded PhD, PaperApps.; a £10,000 prize in the Research Councils UK Digital Economy Theme ‘Telling Tales of Engagement” , being selected for two South By South West panels (2012, 2013); and being recognised in Blueprint, as “Editors Top 10” at London Design Festival in December 2012”.
