Emergent Networks…

In the course of researching & planning the event at the Science Gallery, to take place this evening at 6pm by the way, I’ve managed to choreograph an accidental network of sorts. Encountering some authentic Eames Chairs at a friends house one evening, I thought how appropriate it would be to have some Eames Chairs & 1950’s style furniture to dress the stage on the night of our talk & screening. This led me to approach a local shop on Cow’s Lane, Retrospect, a place I’ve long dipped in and out of in true window shopper fashion. I had a conversation with the proprietor there about our Eames inspired project and she was immediately enthusiastic to lend us some chairs for the evening. Through our conversation, which became about more than chairs as is the way,  it emerged that her son, Darragh, was having difficulty sourcing a work place for his Transistion Year work experience. The long & short of it is, not only do we have appropriate furniture for the evening, we also have a careful & educated assistant who knows a thing or two about 20th century furniture!

Added to this, through an innate willingness to include & engage others with the ‘magic’ of electronic engineering, the CTVR researchers in the Lab have introduced Darragh to the wonderful world of smart phone app’s. And so, in the space of two days, Darragh has set up a blog, begun writing about his experience of Telecommunications, and has programmed two smart phone Apps:

Darragh's Whackamole Smart Phone App

I suppose the moral of the story is you never know where a conversation is going to lead, or who it will bring together, and more to the point, you never know what kind of inspiration you’ll get from sitting in an Eames chair of an evening…

Let’s hope this will hold true tonight!

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