AmbITion Scotland is a digital development programme for the arts, heritage and cultural sector in Scotland over 2012-14, funded by The National Lottery via Creative Scotland. Want to get digitally fitter and smarter? Join in!
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Engaging with AmbITion Scotland means you can get support - via our Make:IT:Happen Fund, through finding student interns or academic partners and through participating with our learning, resources and networking activities
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By Hannah Rudman
17 June 2013
Watch this case study in Sustainable AmbITion: the Screen Machine analyses its Carbon Emissions and talks about how digital tools have helped this process and how they will support a lower carbon future for the UK’s only mobile cinema which takes movie night to 34 of Scotland’s more remote communities.
By Peter Muir
13 June 2013
A short video about what NYCoS learned while undertaking their Make:IT:Happen funded AmbITion Approach digital development journey
By Niall Walker
7 June 2013
Thanks to funding from the Ambition Scotland Organisational Development Fund, the Arches had wi-fi installed throughout its huge, brick-walled, mobile-reception-restrictive premises, meaning punters, promoters, staff and artists can now Tweet, browse and post throughout the building…. (The Arches being built in 1899, just prior to the invention of Wi-Fi) The benefits The installation of [...]
By The GalGael Trust
31 May 2013
If you cannot view the Prezi presentation above, please visit GalGael gets AmbITion
By Hannah Rudman
29 May 2013
A mobile app is a digital platform – like any other stage it should hold up your art, not work against it, say the Cornish company’s Charlotte Bond and Chloe Rickard in The Guardian Culture Professionals Network, reproduced with kind permission. Kneehigh tell stories. Based in Cornwall, we create theatre on both epic and tiny [...]
By Ashley Smith Hammond
11 April 2013
Did you know, in addition to the Make:IT:Happen fund, AmbITion Scotland is currently supporting travel and subsistence costs for internships.
By Hannah Rudman
6 April 2013
The Touring Network (formerly known as Performing Arts Network, or PAN) have worked with AmbITion Scotland funds to develop Tourbook – an online social network for promoters and touring companies focusing on bringing work to remote geographical areas. Watch their fascinating case study to discover what implications and benefits and features the social network will [...]
By Dana MacPhee
11 March 2013
Uist Wool – AmbITion Approach Case Study Podcast Uist Wool is a community benefit society that will operate a new spinning mill and wool centre on the island of Grimsay in the Outer Hebrides Uist Wool is based on the principles of People, Planet, Profit: seeking to benefit the many, establishing sustainable practices and creating [...]
By Hannah Rudman
27 February 2013
This webcast masterclass on Visual Engagement in a digital world – is a (digital) picture worth 1000 words (or 140 characters)? is here to watch on demand. Following the digital technology explosion is the adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” still true? Certainly, a digital image is something that works well across all digital [...]
By Hannah Rudman
1 February 2013
Another #artsdigital project reports on its results: Imperial War Museums have been researching and developing methods to engage audiences with exhibitions, artefacts and each other. Their project involves various in-gallery, online and mobile applications that allow people to further engage with museum collections through digital interaction: watch this video to see what they’ve achieved: Thanks [...]
