Orchid Project

A really cool database/cookbook of nudges from Stirling University Behavioural Science group – http://economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.ie/2013/03/nudge-database_3441.html?m=1

Our film traces a secret geography of the Health and Safety Lab in Derbyshire. It reflects on the landscape of the Peak District and its relationship with the deep history of engineering, alighting from ancient conical hills and drystone walls to mines research labs and industrial testing ranges. Mixing fact and fiction, as well as […]

Steve and I had an artists’ residency at the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) a few yeares ago. HSL is a government lab that conducts investigations of large-scale accidents, such as fires, explosions, tunnel collapses, bridge failures and rail crashes, in order to examine their destructive pathways. We interviewed the scientists and investigators, got inside the […]

Thought I’d give the ORCHID team a bit of background about the films I make with Steve Beard. We make art films about accidents and disasters. Our method is to challenge explanations that emerge from scientific accident investigation with alternative narratives. This often involves going beyond the usual evidence base to take into account wider, […]

Hello, again. Steve and I are looking forward to interviewing members of the ORCHID team over the autumn term. Angela Westley has very kindly arranged the dates. The specific focus of our residency is on ORCHID research into the use of computer-driven drones in disaster management. We will be sharing our own research, experiences and […]

Hello, ORCHID people. I work with Steve Beard to make art films about accidents and disasters. We have been appointed as Leverhulme Trust artists-in-residence by Nick Jennings and look forward to getting to know you guys over the 2013/14 academic year. For details of the residency, see the University of Southampton press release – http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2013/aug/13_147.shtml

We’re in this week’s New Scientist magazine - http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929324.000-biodiversity-app-logs-insects-by-their-telltale-call.html

Regulator promises biggest shakeup of power and gas retail since competition began: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/aug/27/simplified-gas-and-electricity-tariffs

Interesting game to perform genetic analysis of ash dieback. It’s not obvious why a computer couldn’t do the analysis, but interesting approach - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23635094.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23536914 Genius innovation related to energy poverty: using plastic bottles instead of lightbulbs in developing countries to get light during the day in buildings with no windows (which are very common, it seems).  What I found particularly interesting: – in terms of carbon emissions: “Moser lamps emit no CO2″ while “A 50 Watt light bulb […]