THE SWARM has recently researched, designed and launched a demonstrator for the GRAIN Photo Hub that explores the relationships between professionally-curated and social media photo archives.
Don't panic. We’ve not taken a leave of our senses - this is one of the 10 lessons we’ve learned about working in digital throughout our careers.
We just worked with our friends at MEDEA to hack the future of public transport (following on our success with TubeTap).
See how the hack went at: http://trafficjamsession.mah.se/
THE SWARM has been working with the BBC Connected Studio to develop new ideas for digital services.
The studio connects BBC developers with commercial counterparts in a 2-day creative environment to develop new ideas for digital services with BBC content. We have recently worked on the BBC IX4, News Archive and Weather & Traffic labs.
We didn’t make it to SXSW in Austin - but if we had, we’d have been sending some great postcards to you, our friends and partners!
Ghost Town is an immersive journey exploring the transformation of a place in time that investigates the Heygate Estate - a 25-acre wide ghost town in the heart of London, less than a mile south of Westminster, once home to 1,200 families.
A Spanner in the Works is a new location-specific mobile history game for kids that let's them travel back in time to explore historic photos of their area and battle an evil, time-travelling villain.
The game opens up new opportunities for children to explore local history and for improving the overall shopping experience for parents.
YLE is Finland's national broadcaster, and The SWARM recently completed three labs working to develop new transmedia formats with their television teams.
A new game experience supports the Sundance-nominated documentary Google and the World Brain; reminding us that, on the internet, not everything is as it seems...
The launch supported the US-premier of the film on Al-Jazeera America and represents a radical new way of marketing a serious documentary; bringing gaming, Facebook marketing and filmmaking together to strengthen the call to action.
The Finsbury Arts festival in London recently held a ThinkShop – a host of 10 minute mini-lectures on a variety of art-related subjects.
Jason showed the audience with a talk about what an art-gallery experience might be like in the future by hosting a wireless exhibition.
We all owe someone something. What do you owe?
Alinah Azadeh acts as debt collector and servant to The Book of Debts - a large tome that she fills in each location she visits with the stories of debts owed by the people of that community. She then recites and burns the book as a public act of ‘absolution.’ THE SWARM has created a website as a way to contribute to a digital version of the book.
Causa Justa is a social-justice documentary series that airs on 16 countries on the Latin American news network, TeleSUR.
THE SWARM spent a week in Venezuela working intensively with the production team on creating a transmedia strategy for the programme's next series in conjunction with Televisión América Latina.
During 2012 and 2013, THE SWARM facilitated a series of workshops across the UK for the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts.
The workshops were full-day collaborative activities designed to help build strong ideas and teams with arts projects, technology providers, and researchers.
