Strata at Sandbox

Thought it'd be good to post a reminder from Jane & Jackie's visit to the media sandbox launch at Watershed on Monday, of some of the things that may be relevent to prototyping Sightlines....

The top 5 golden rules (we preferred to call them 'platinum TIPS') to consider when setting out on your innovative multi-platform pervasive media project..... (as voted by attendees)

• What’s the point?
• Know your target audience
• Know your platforms and their features and constraints
• Identify a desire/need that this product is filling
• A single/simple idea

Some of our favourites were also:

• Innovate or improve
• Consider potentials, adaptability, flexibility, extendability of your concept
• There are no rules
• Expect the unexpected
• Keep communication simple
• Develop/have a strong idea and stick to it (we thought: stay flexible & responsive at the same time as not being sucked into other agendas/doing things just because you could!)
• Interdependence of platform, content, audience

We also found these 'scenario' questions interesting..

• What dimensions are valuable to people as they go about their everyday lives? How can those dimensions be sensed and presented?
• How would we go about engaging with Bristol people to start re-using public drinking fountains instead of buying YAPB (yet another plastic bottle)?

And we realised that innovative multi-platform projects have 90% same requirements as any other creative/arts/education project, so we've already got a lot to give!
- oh yes, and it's great to have different coloured pens when writing on a flip-pad. And much easier to draw/spatialise/visualise as you talk (for Jackie, anyway!).
- aha, and very important to illuminate the stereotype that grannies don't get out mapping on their bike with their pda - they DO!