James is co-founder of Stormjar, a new startup exploring the future of the haunted house. James is an artist and innovation specialist. In this blog James considers both sides of the NFT debate, for Stormjar's new prototype, the Nightmare Market.
Richard is the co-founder of Rocketmakers, which designs, develops and delivers innovative software, apps and websites for startups, scaleups and large organisations. Striving to work with organisations that are seeking to have a positive impact, Richard has helped hundreds of startups and scaleups build amazing products.
In this article Richard looks at Rocketmaker's beginnings, understanding the work they do in amplified publishing and what made them motivated to be an industry partners for the pathfinder.
Karolina Latka is an Amplified Publishing fellow and Developer at Complete Control. Karolina develops games, websites and framework components helping the creative vision come true. In this article, Karolina investigates the benefits and losses of personalisation and customisation for publishing and how this relationship has bloomed with technology.
Researching further into emerging technologies Karolina looks at these new developments in relation to children’s consumption of publishing.
Since April 2021 the Amplified Publishing cohort has been researching the future of publishing across multiple sectors, from books to magazines through the visual arts and augmented reality. Our cohort’s discussions provided a valuable framework for our funding call and we have built on this work to propel the conversation forward through our investment in three exciting Amplified Publishing prototypes.
Mel McCree is an academic and practitioner in outdoor and environmental arts, play and learning, with a focus on children’s equitable futures, environment-society relationships and eco-social justice. Mel is an Academic Fellow on the Amplified Publishing Pathfinder and Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at Bath Spa University. This blog post is the first in her series entitled ‘Ideas from near future survivors’. Here, Mel explores issues of equity in children’s future imaginaries and their experiences of a digital life.
Louise Brailey is the Editor of Crack Magazine, an independent platform for contemporary culture and is an amplified publishing industry partner. In this article, Brailey explores the history of Crack Magazine and considers how we can utilise technology differently and asks whether this will help foster a better environment for online communities in the publishing sector.
