Background

‘Bespoke’ is a multidisciplinary project investigating how digital systems and devices can increase social inclusion and improve lives.

The project is working at a neighbourhood level, helping people to tell their own stories through hyper-local news production, and then using these stories to inspire radically simple bespoke design solutions, created with and for people.

One of the key objectives is to create simple and engaging analogue interfaces to digital content in order to allow those that are digitally excluded to benefit from the economic, social & cultural advantages which access to digital tools and content can provide. 

For example, someone without email could receive messages on a letterbox printer and reply and write back using a scanning postbox. 

The Bespoke team includes: ethnographers, computer scientists, journalists, product designers and craftspeople.