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Five members of Manchester Age Friendly Neighbourhoods smiling at the camera after completing PlaceCal training.

How we created a community digital commons: 8 years of PlaceCal

For our second livestream we're looking at the story of PlaceCal, technology that serves communities by aggregating and displaying events in a single place. Featuring Kim and Sean (GFSC), Rakesh (Tipping Point), Jay (Gendered Intelligence) and Stefan (Manchester School of Architecture).

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Accessibility: complexity and contradictions in graphic design

Accessibility is a vital and increasingly recognised component of all design practice. But what does accessibility actually mean, what happens with accessibility requirements contradict one another, and how can graphic designers learn about accessibility implementation?

Promo image. Dungeons and Democracy - Can Deliberation Be Fun? There's a picketer with a sign saying: cast fireball please.

Dungeons & Democracy: Crowdwork As A Design Problem

Heckler war stories do very well. Imagine an organised insurrection. Sean has had one of his worst ideas ever, and can't wait to play it with you and 50 of our closest friends. (This is emphatically not a criticism of democracy as a concept.)