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 AmbITion
6 January 2012
Hot off the press from Festivalslab especially for AmbITion Scotland is a manifesto and How To… Guide explaining how to create your own innovation lab/build in innovation practices to your organisation. Festivalslab shares the last 2 years’ learning from the Festivals Edinburgh group on how to create a ripe environment for innovation in your organisation. [...]
By AmbITion
16 December 2011
Innovation funding needs to meet the specific needs of cultural organisations and that isn’t always about creating something radical and new. In a country with a deficit as bad as it was in 1945 after Britain had endured six years of world war, it is not surprising that innovation is seen as an essential component [...]
By AmbITion
9 December 2011
And don’t forget – the service design toolkit with guides, examples, handouts and other practical and handy tools is available at http://design.festivalslab.com
By AmbITion
20 October 2011
Following its initiation at Culture Hack Scotland, this case study video maps the development of a hack into a fully operational mobile site launched by Edinburgh International Book Festival this summer.
By AmbITion
19 October 2011
Live events online – particularly live cultural events – are becoming increasingly popular with audiences around the world, and the Roundhouse is at the forefront of this trend. Conor Roche shares his experiences in Arts Professional Broadcasters, film-makers, artists and musicians are all becoming more aware of the potential of live events online to unite [...]
By Jane Hogg
17 August 2011
Beefing up some research on Socialnetwork selling Groupon/Livingsocial etc but not many examples of cultural stuff in UK. A good number from US that look positive. Anyone out there given it a whirl and cares to show and tell? We can share the results from the info already collected.
By AmbITion
21 June 2011
5pm 21.06.2011 – 5pm 22.06.2011: http://www.fiveminutetheatre.com – a virtual live theatre project powered by webcasting and standard Scottish bandwidth! Join the National Theatre Scotland’s 5th birthday celebrations, showing online 24 hours of live 5 minute pieces of theatre by anyone for everyone. Hannah’s other company Envirodigital have been the technical consultants, and producers. To provide [...]
By AmbITion
7 June 2011
Hannah Rudman follows Stellar Quines Theatre Company on their digital development throughout the production of Age of Arousal.
By AmbITion
23 May 2011
Case study: Based in a small Scottish town halfway between Edinburgh and Inverness, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
(PFT) houses a 540-seat auditorium, serving both a strong local and thriving tourist market. The main
season at the theatre runs from May through to October and consists of six in-house productions running
in repertoire throughout the summer, giving rise to the tagline ‘see six shows in six days’.
