As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: Timpson
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: Appliances Online
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Feedback on Relationship-Centred Design Considerations: Round 1
Last month, we (the Relationships Project team) shared a first attempt at a set of relationship-centred design considerations with our …
Extending the Circle
Amongst the responses to the previous blog from the Relationships Project (Talking a little, learning a lot), which discussed ‘circles of …
Introducing MadeByPlay – a new venture born out of Shift
Today sees the launch of a new Shift venture that’s built on our 10 years of work strengthening communities in …
Looking back at the Architecting Sustainable Futures symposium
On 21-22 September 2018, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Shift’s US team hosted a new symposium, ‘Architecting …
Talking a little, learning a lot
As we have been shaping our ideas about relationship centred design we have been talking a little and learning a …
Rebooting relationships
I have been collecting some very short stories over the summer. Here’s a handful: The doctor sits on the bed, …
Documenting the Now: Phase 2
Blog outlining the second phase of Documenting the Now – a tool and a community developed around supporting the ethical collection, use, and preservation of social media content.
Research
VIDEO: The You and Me Principle
How relationships change the world and where to go with what we know. Film of lecture by David Robinson
Changing Places Pilot Summary
King’s Cross Story Palace
What is King’s Cross Story Palace? King’s Cross Story Palace is a two year project that tells some of the …
#ASFNOLA on Social Media
Using design to solve the problems of rural isolation and loneliness amongst the elderly
Lead Researcher Immy Robinson features in radio series The Fix, in which “12 of the country’s brightest young minds gather to solve difficult social problems” – this episode: rural isolation and loneliness amongst the elderly.
Ten things we’ve learned from designing and piloting a national campaign for young people with NCS
Over the past six months, we’ve been designing a new “mass action campaign” in partnership with the National Citizen Service. …
(Re)Introducing the Shift US Team
Since 2011, Shift has had a presence in the United States and has been growing since then. Originally located in …
Documenting the Now Ethics White Paper Documenting the Now Ethics White Paper
Shift’s first ever Annual Awards
Here at Shift we have developed a clear idea of how we want to act as an organisation, which we …
Designing for social isolation with BBC Radio Four’s ‘The Fix’
At the end of last week I headed west to the picturesque town of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, to record the first …
Architecting Sustainable Futures: Exploring Funding Models in Community-Based Archives
The You and Me Principle
Sign up to stay in touch Loading… Add to the conversation #youandmeprinciple Get in touch D.Robinson3@LSE.ac.uk @davrob5 Page Menu Introduction …
Cultural Heritage and Social Change Summit: One Year On
This report summarizes some of the core findings of the Cultural Heritage and Social Change Summit–themes that have also arisen in many other cultural heritage conferences and meetings over the past year:
- Safe Space for Disruptive Dialogue
- Funding for Transformative Gatherings
- Equitable and Ethical Collaboration
- Diversifying Technology Production in Cultural Heritage Spaces
- Integrating Community Archives Into Traditional Cultural Heritage Spaces
- Social Innovation and Rethinking Goals and Objectives in the Cultural Heritage Sector
Our Theory of Change: The Science Behind Historypin’s Storybox, Part 1
Historypin’s Storybox seeks to help address one of the big problems of our time: the increasingly stark disconnections and divisions …
What have we learnt and now what? Part ten of Connecting Well.
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the tenth in a series of blogs.
Beauty of Care: Part nine of Connecting Well
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the ninth in a series of blogs.
The Heart of the Matter: Part eight of Connecting Well
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the eigth in a series of blogs.
Relational offset, the new imperative: Part seven of Connecting Well.
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the seventh in a series of blogs.
Humbug or Hallelujah? Part six of Connecting Well
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the sixth in a series of blogs.
Joining the Dots: Part five of Connecting Well
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the fifth in a series of blogs.
Land of our children: Part four of Connecting well.
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the fourth in a series of blogs.
Doing what anyone would do: Part three of Connecting well.
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the third in a series of blogs.
Human beings being human: Part two of Connecting well
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the second in a series of blogs.
Connecting Well
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the first in a series of blogs.
Gamification to make story sharing impactful and fun
Our Senior Service designer explains how the Historypin team are injecting elements of gamification into their design process for their …
Design principles for Historypin’s Storybox
Bringing people together to share stories and experiences with one another has always been intended to be at the core …
How to co-create the future of storytelling
In an age of Brexit and Trump, bridging divided communities might seem like a far fetched dream. But at Historypin, …
Comparte Tu Rollo on Social Media
Comparte tu Rollo
Radio show about the Comparte tu Rollo project in Columbia, teaching basic tech skillls by digitizing history of rural libraries.
Historypin & LODLAM at EuropeanaTech 2015
This talk at the National Library of France from February 2015 highlights some of the ways Historypin is being leveraged to increase access to cultural heritage content and strengthen local communities. I also take a quick look at the growing culture around Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums and how data sharing may soon be the new norm for cultural heritage.
A closer look at NT100 2013 project, Historypin
Historypin was launched in 2011, after two years of R&D and beta testing, with a mission to help bring people together, from across different generations and cultures, to share and explore the history of their communities…
‘The simple habits and reciprocities of everyday life.’
This is how David Halpern describes the focus of work that examines and values the role of social capital in our communities. …
Can One Story Change the World?
Jon Voss of Historypin.org presents “Can One Story Change the World?” at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.
Historypin share their top tips
Historypin is a suite of online tools designed to help museums, libraries and community groups share their collections of archived materials (e.g. historic photos) with as wide an audience as possible…
Research from Libraries, Archives & Museums on Historypin
We’re fortunate to work with many cultural heritage partners who are putting a lot of thought and research into the ways they can share their collections with the world, from physical exhibitions to digital engagement strategies, and everything in between…
Unconditional Leadership
David Robinson eloquently and honestly distils 35 years experience of starting and building inspiring local, national and international charities and social enterprises, drawing out lessons on unleashing people’s potential that have application across business and government.
The Participatory Museum
When real change comes, it doesn’t come from any one place. It emerges, gradually, from many different places all at once…
Historypin: Libraries, Archives & Museums Sharing Content
Nick talking at Stanford University on Historypin: Libraries, Archives & Museums Sharing Content.