Poetic expressions of smart donations with Oxfam

Telling Tales of Engagement

Poetic expressions of smart donations with Oxfam

Inspace City Screen at Potterrow in Edinburgh
from Monday, 10th January to Wednesday, 23 February 2022

Three commissioned researchers cut through the corpus of a major research project that took place between 2019 and 2021: the OxChain Smart Donations project. The OxChain project set out to explore how blockchain technologies could be used to reshape value in the context of international development and the work of Oxfam to reach new audiences.

Our three commissioned artist researchers, using their own unique media forms and methods, are: Bakita Kasadha (poetic inquiry), Martin Glynn (data verbalisation) and Nicky Melville (experimental lyric poetry). They have designed this series of poetic responses to transactional cultures, blockchain and smart donations. Excerpts of their written and performed works have been reimagined for Inspace City Screen by Ray Interactive and you will be able to see and read their full works on the exhibition website from the 10th of January 2022.

Learn more about the OxChain Smart Donations project:
www.designinformatics.org/research_project/ox-chain

Watch videos from our OxChain project showcase:
vimeo.com/showcase/7752480

Look behind the scenes of the Oxchain project showcase:
www.flickr.com/photos/124583512@N08/albums/72157716734553623

Animation about the Smart Donations app created in collaboration with Oxfam Australia for the OxChain project.

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More about Inspace

At Inspace, we are future focused and ask the public to imagine new innovations and their possibilities. We aim to inspire and not just inform.

Inspace is a venue which:

  • Provides a space for people to explore, learn and create
  • Unlocks data
  • Demystifies technology
  • Encourages designing with data
  • Offers a play space to try out new ideas
  • Offers a research context to work in
  • Brings people together and offers new collaborations
  • Showcases research but through an artist or designers’ eyes
  • Encourages new collaborations
  • Is open to everyone

If you are an artist or scientist and have anything you would like to show, you can learn more about how to engage with and contact us.

An invitation to bridge the gap between you and the Universe

Coming soon…

THE PROJECT

Using constant and real time streams of data reaching from all corners of the Universe, and your Edinburgh viewpoint, Asteria: Space and Satellite invite you to bridge the gap between you and the Universe in this exhibition, Universal Matter, available online and City Screen.

Can we build empathy for otherness through interaction?

In today’s data driven world, it’s easy to get lost in the small things like bus timetables and credit scores but what about the big ones? The astronomic ones? What if your own movement is perceived as the same stuff as solar activity, or the electric pulse of a plant?

“The cosmos is within us.
We are made of star-stuff.
We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

~ Carl Sagan

The team at Asteria: Space and Satellites will exhibit their work, Universal Matter, on Inspace’s City Screens from mid-March 2021.

This will be a free to explore exhibition, which can be viewed on the screens at Potterrow as well as online at the Inspace, Design Informatics and Asteria Space channels.

Asteria Creatives

Website: asteria-space.com/creatives

Instagram: @asteria_creatives

Medium: medium.com/asteria-space-and-satellites