6 June 2013
Raspberry PI's and raspberry pies
Aspiring young computer programmers can get an insight into coding from some of Dundee's own experts as the Small Society Lab returns to DCA on Sunday June 9th.
The first session of this year's lab (which runs from June 9th to 26th) is a special open session of the DCA Code Club, where young people will be introduced to the free coding programme Scratch and learn to build game environments on the £20 Raspberry Pi computer. There will also be edible, rather then electronic, raspberry pies on offer.
Children attending the session must be accompanied by an adult. The event runs from 2pm to 5pm and is free and is run in partnership with brightsolid and supported by Business in the Arts Award 2013.
Other events in this series of Small Society Lab include a session on a DCA Print Studio initiative to help disabled people use computer technology to draw with their eyes (Tue 11 June); a lecture on the magical properties of glowing funghi (Thu 13 June) and a panel discussion on the future of paper in the digital age (Tue 18 June).
The Small Society Lab is now in its third year. Based at DCA, it aims to be a public forum for collaboration between the cultural and academic sectors with contributions from industry and local communities. The project is administered and managed by DCA with support from other partners including the University of Dundee, Abertay University, NESTA and Creative Scotland.
Clive Gillman, Director at DCA, said, "The Small Society Lab is a great opportunity for us to work with some really exciting partners to present new ideas to our audience. There are some big ideas out there and at DCA we're keen to give them the exposure they deserve."
Full event listings and more information can be found at www.dca.org.uk.
NOTES TO EDITORS
The Small Society Lab is a pop-up public centre for research and action in progressing the development and understanding of the small city of the future. Focusing on exploring the intersection between art, community and technology, it supports and develops a range of projects, interventions and events that help define the values, actions and solutions that will support a sustainable future for the post-industrial urban environment.
Focusing on the growth of a broad set of values within diverse and sometimes fractured communities, the work of the Small Society Lab challenges current orthodoxies around concepts of growth and engagement, locating future planning in a context in which there is a clear definition of shared values that are locally owned and supportive of an optimistic and sustainable future. It will do this through processes of creative technical disruption, employing contemporary technologies and creative methodologies to challenge existing methods of cultural empowerment and activation.
The Small Society Lab has grown out of the work undertaken by Dundee projects such as the Cultural Pathfinder and the Blue Skies Festival, each of which engaged partners from the cultural sector, the academic sector, industry and communities to share ideas, actions and outcomes in defining the future of our city. It is based in the DCA building and exists as a public forum with talks and presentations as well as meeting spaces and workshops to support a range of development projects. It is administered and managed by DCA with project support from the other partners who include the University of Dundee, Abertay University, NESTA and Creative Scotland.
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