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
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 Hannah Rudman
8 January 2013
Watch the latest video update from the Arts Council England/NESTA Digital R&D pilot project, ‘London Dickens Trail’ and learn from Exhibition Road Cultural Group and the Charles Dickens Museum, who have joined forces with designers Seren Partners to develop an app which guides users around London to explore and learn more about the locations, characters [...]
By Hannah Rudman
16 November 2012
I can’t wait to take my next set of visitors to the National Museum of Scotland – yes because its revamp has created a fabulously immersive beautiful space and its interactive exhibits are engaging to the point where kids have to queue up behind me for hours – but also because now I can add [...]
By Hannah Rudman
6 November 2012
#artsdigital podcast from Arts Council England 5: Dave Patten, Head of New Media, Science Museum; Max Whitby, Co-Founder and CEO of Touchpress; and Kirsten Campbell-Howes, Director of Learning, at digital agency Soda join John in the studio to debate hot topics including: whether technology can and should replace teachers and the traditional structures of learning, [...]
By Ashley Smith Hammond
24 September 2012
This September organisations from the world of dance, literature, music and visual art attended to find out how a partnership with academia could help them explore a new idea or get help solving a problem.
By Hannah Rudman
6 September 2012
Conference organisers and AmbITion Scotland partners, Interactive Scotland once again hosted a scintillating day at Edinburgh’s Turing Festival. The Turing Festival brings the digital industries and the web into this gathering in a celebration of digital culture and creativity. Named in honour of Alan Turing, father of modern computing, the festival moves beyond traditional tech conferences to explore [...]
By Ashley Smith Hammond
21 August 2012
On Friday 24 August, 2012, a group of the world’s digital technology leaders will converge on Edinburgh to debate and discuss their latest innovations. Tune in to the AmbITion Scotland’s webcast for a glimpse of the digital future, and an insight into how it can positively affect business growth in the arts, culture and heritage [...]
By Hannah Rudman
2 August 2012
In this podcast studio guests dissect the future of mobile from near field communication (NFC) technology to Google’s Project Glass and take in the latest advances in augmented reality browsers along the way. But how much of this technology can really deliver what we need it to for our audiences? There are also case studies [...]
By Ashley Smith Hammond
23 July 2012
Source – Culture professionals network: Culture professionals blog | guardian.co.uk The best mobile projects build on genuine collaboration between content owners and digital developers, says Ben Templeton It’s no surprise that mobile technology is an attractive opportunity for arts and cultural organisations. OFCOM suggest more than half the UK’s mobile users have a smartphone – no other device [...]
