Welcome to Bespoke
The project has been established to look at the issue of digital and social exclusion in the Fishwick and Callon areas of Preston.
Broadly speaking, the project has two parts. The first is for us to set up a team of community/citizen journalists who will report on the issues that are important to them and to their local community.
The second part of the project is centred on innovative design. Partner universities (Dundee, Falmouth, Newcastle, Surrey, and UCLan) will use the news stories, as well as other information gathered during the lifespan of the project, to design digital technologies that can meet the needs of the area. This collaboration between emotive, technological and functional design with hyper-local journalism is a ground-breaking exercise and, as far as we're aware, has never been tried before.
Digital Exclusion and Bespoke
Many people in the UK are currently excluded from the benefits of digital technologies and the connections to other people, businesses and groups that these provide. These technologies are not affordable by the poor and not usable by many older or disabled people, leading to a double exclusion from the digital and social world around them.
In this project we aim to tackle this problem at a neighbourhood level, by helping local people to tell their own social exclusion stories and using these stories to inspire simple bespoke design solutions created with and for the excluded people.
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This page offers a chronology of the project. Charting the generation of early design ideas, inspired by the local community, through to the implementation and reaction to the objects that are offered to the Callon and Fishwick area, the information here offers snapshots of Bespoke in action.
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Latest News
Digital design and hyperlocal journalism continue on Bespoke - 1st June 2010
It's been some time since Bespoke's last official update, so we thought we'd offer some information on progress and developments that have taken place over the last five months. We'll begin with a very general overview.
