Utopia Works
We are delighted to announce that the Future Works strand of the Stories of Change project has been awarded further funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to […]
We are delighted to announce that the Future Works strand of the Stories of Change project has been awarded further funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to […]
Image: @Gorminator For Utopia Works I gathered together what turned out to be a rather large number of seventeenth-century printed works for the ‘wordsmiths’ table. I hoped they would be […]
Image: Ying Tian It’s been half month since I took part in Utopia Works: Energy Hack day at Derby Silk Mill. To my surprise the ‘Symphony of Energy’ keeps come […]
(all photos courtesy of the fantastic @gorminator) Our foremen (and forewomen!) at Utopia Works may have specified a six-hour working day, but the energetic conversations amongst workers spilled out long into […]
Photos from last week’s UTOPIA WORKS Energy Hack at The Silk Mill in derby…
Post by Tom Beesley, photo @tonybutler1 Arriving for an 8.30am start at The Silk Mill in Derby with the prospect of a full days graft ahead felt a little daunting, […]
This week we travelled to Bristol Zoo to participate in the ‘Utopias, Futures and Temporalities: Critical Considerations for Social change’ conference associated with the AHRC Connected Communities & Care for […]
At Utopia Works I joined workers Mel, Nic, Guy, Ying, Bexie and Ian to take part in factory life to prototype or hack a solution to an energy problem. I […]
Image: letterpress (the printing press was a 15th Century disruptive technology) During our travels along the rivers, and across the valleys there are some phrases that have stuck in the […]
photo: @gorminator On the day we were preparing for Utopia Works Energy Hack at Derby Silk Mill, with partners from across a number of factories along the Derwent and Don Valleys […]