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.
We’re working with our friends at MEDEA to hack the future of public transport (following on our success with TubeTap). Register now to join us!
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.
New American Noise is transmedia experience that takes user through underground music scenes across America using film, interactive media and music playlists brought to you by Nokia Music and the Sundance Channel.
We are providing strategic and creative consultancy to the organisers of London's first user-curated performing arts festival, drawing on our experience working with digital content and culture.
The Dance WE Made is an interactive pop-up dance performance that takes place at iconic locations, inviting members of the general public to choreograph dances for professional dancer Tim Casson.
The Swarm worked with Tim to develop the digital concept for the work and bring it to life.
THE SWARM teamed up with the Oxjam Camberwell Takeover to create an augmented reality guide to the one-day festival.
THE SWARM has been working with world-renowned arts charity Visiting Arts on the development of a global arts portal designed to be the ultimate business-to-business tool for the culture sector.
THE SWARM is proud to be a pro-bono sponsor and advisor to Endz2Endz - the place for young urban talent.
The project - started by 4 youths from South London housing estates - starts from the belief that showcasing positive stories about young people and giving them a home for showcasing their talent will promote positive behaviour as an alternative to violence.
TubeTap is the app that gets Londoner's refunds when the London Underground makes them late.
The app is THE SWARM's first independent project and was named an 'App of the Year' by WIRED UK.
THE SWARM recently worked with students in California to develop and pitch new ideas for the use of mobile technologies to several prominent news organisations.
MIPTV's Connected Creativity Experience Hub was an exhibition designed show the entertainment industry the future of digital entertainment.
THE SWARM has been working with Sunday Drive, an in-car location-based services start-up based in Los Angeles. We are providing the company with management, user-experience and product development consultancy.
How learning - both formal and informal - will change in light of new mobile technologies was the subject of the latest talk from THE SWARM given at Learning Without Frontiers.
Why location-based mobile services matter to your media business, right now is the title of a new column by Jason DaPonte on media-intelligence site The Media Briefing.
MuseumNext recently quoted Jason DaPonte, Managing Director of THE SWARM on tablet strategy, in a recent blog post, 'What Can the iPad do for Museums?'.
THE SWARM is looking forward to 2011 as a big year in the mobile space and has published the following presentation predicting the trends that will matter most in the mobile space.
Stroome is positioning itself as the social network where web’s most collaborative online video editing and social networking community — a place where anyone with a camera and a point of view (students, journalists, sports enthusiasts, travelers, advertisers, marketers, corporations, educators) can work together or individually to polish, publish and promote their content to a potential audience of millions.
THE SWARM has worked with curators artists to create an installation that is part of a community-lead effort to regenerate Brixton Market, in south London.
Jason spoke about trends in the mobile space including about playfulness re-emerging in digital utilities and the power of 'freemium' business models in the space, as well as looking forward to invisible and wearable displays in the augmented reality (AR) space.
The power of storytelling in communicating with audiences and creating value for consumers on mobile devices will be the topic of a talk called Tell Me a Story - to be given at MEX - the Mobile User Experience conference in London on 30 November.
"From an ethnographic perpective, they're going to populate a space we haven't seen used that much before, which is portable but mainly within the home. It's the type of device that you can curl up with on a sofa and watch a film or read the Sunday paper,"
The mobile space holds commercial and creative opportunities - if you get it right. THE SWARM has extensive experience developing successful mobile strategies using a variety of techniques and tools that can be done independently or collaboratively with your organisation.
Just starting out in the digital and/or mobile space? Need help from an industry veteran? We can help.
Developing content and products for the mobile space isn't as simple as 'take our website and make it small.'
The challenge was to launch products that would extend The Economist brand into the online space and drive profitability
The challenge was to challenge a team's traditional thinking so they could collaboratively develop a new creative strategy to drive growth. We did it with LEGO.
If you're having a hard time coming up with the next big idea for your business, THE SWARM can help. We have facilitated brainstorms that found solutions for the following challenges (and more!)
Need a big innovation push in your organisation? We have worked on a number of different 'innovation labs' that help generate new ideas and inspire staff, including:
Last week, Jason DaPonte, Managing Director of THE SWARM, spoke at the Tate Handheld Conference 2010
The Future is Mobile for many companies and brands. No one will deny mobile is growing like wild; but the big quesion is, "How do we understand this space and how do we deal with it?"
