IHBC NORTH WEST BRANCH DAY CONFERENCE
Digital Heritage – new technology for the historic environment
Digital Heritage – new technology for the historic environment
Wednesday 16th October 2013
The Co-operative Group Head Office
1 Angel Square, Manchester, M60 0AG
The Co-operative Group Head Office
1 Angel Square, Manchester, M60 0AG
SPEAKERS
Dr Drew Hemment
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Drew Hemment is Founder and CEO of FutureEverything, the award winning innovation lab and festival, established 1995. He is a Dundee Fellow (Reader) at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, and Deputy Director of the Creative Exchange, a £4M Knowledge Exchange hub supported by the AHRC.
Over 20 years, his work in digital culture and innovation has been been covered by New York Times, BBC and NBC and recognised by awards from the arts, technology and business sectors, including Lever Prize 2010 (Winner) and Prix Ars Electronica 2008 (Honorary Mention). Projects include the emoto data visualisation of London 2012 Olympics and Open Data Cities which established DataGM (Greater Manchester Datastore). Member of the Manchester Innovation Group, the body which advises the Local Economic Partnership (LEP) on innovation, the Editorial Board for Leonardo journal of art, science and technology (MIT), and has served on many international Art Juries including UNESCO DigiArts. In 1999, awarded a PhD at Lancaster University, in 2009 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (UK), and in 2010 an Eyebeam resident (USA).
FutureEverything (futureeverything.org) is an internationally recognised R&D hub for digital culture, presenting industry conferences, innovation projects, artworks and live experiences which showcase a digital future. For almost twenty years FutureEverything has been at the heart of the digital debate, inspiring thinkers, city makers, developers, coders, artists and musicians to experiment and collaborate. The annual FutureEverything Festival has been hailed by The Guardian as one of the top ten ideas festivals in the world.
Over 20 years, his work in digital culture and innovation has been been covered by New York Times, BBC and NBC and recognised by awards from the arts, technology and business sectors, including Lever Prize 2010 (Winner) and Prix Ars Electronica 2008 (Honorary Mention). Projects include the emoto data visualisation of London 2012 Olympics and Open Data Cities which established DataGM (Greater Manchester Datastore). Member of the Manchester Innovation Group, the body which advises the Local Economic Partnership (LEP) on innovation, the Editorial Board for Leonardo journal of art, science and technology (MIT), and has served on many international Art Juries including UNESCO DigiArts. In 1999, awarded a PhD at Lancaster University, in 2009 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (UK), and in 2010 an Eyebeam resident (USA).
FutureEverything (futureeverything.org) is an internationally recognised R&D hub for digital culture, presenting industry conferences, innovation projects, artworks and live experiences which showcase a digital future. For almost twenty years FutureEverything has been at the heart of the digital debate, inspiring thinkers, city makers, developers, coders, artists and musicians to experiment and collaborate. The annual FutureEverything Festival has been hailed by The Guardian as one of the top ten ideas festivals in the world.
Stephen Anderson
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Stephen Anderson is an Associate with Buttress Fuller Alsop Williams, working within their cultural heritage team. He has broad experience of working on projects involving Listed Buildings and Scheduled Ancient Monuments including the recent refurbishment of the Great Western Warehouse at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, which showcases technology in a Grade II Listed Building. Current projects include Norton Priory in Runcorn, Grade I Listed and a Scheduled Ancient Monument to refurbishment works to Stockport College's Greek Street Building, Listed at Grade II.
Paul Bryan
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Based in York, Paul Bryan heads up the English Heritage Geospatial Imaging team which assists in the implementation of the National Heritage Protection Plan (NHPP), principally measure 3 relating to identification of potential. He also takes the corporate lead on the application of modern image and laser based metric survey approaches applicable to cultural heritage and is chair of the EH Building Information Modelling Special Interest Group (BIMSIG). Paul has extensive knowledge of image based survey approaches, including photogrammetry and laser scanning, and is co-author of the 'Metric Survey Specifications for Cultural Heritage' which sets the standard for metric surveys across the heritage sector. Recently awarded Fellowship of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) he is currently co-chair of the 'Cultural heritage data acquisition and processing' WGV/2 working group within ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) Technical Commission V, concerned with the development and application of close range image measurement techniques, and UK representative for CIPA (The International Scientific Committee for Documentation of Cultural Heritage).
Graham Cavanagh
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Graham Cavanagh joined Ryder in 2008 and has since worked on a number of projects most notably Manchester Central Library. As a company Ryder utilise BIM on all projects for project delivery to try and collaborate at every opportunity. In this instance Ryder co-ordinated structure and services in a complex Grade II* Transformation project as well as providing legacy information to allow the client to improve the management of the building using dedicated FM software.
Lou Cordwell
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Lou Cordwell started her career working for a number of large multinational ad agencies including JWT before founding digital design company magneticNorth in the Summer of 2000. Since then she has led the business from its original team of four to a now internationally renowned business and brand with a multi-award winning portfolio of work and a blue chip client list that includes BBC, Google, Channel 4 and The Cooperative Group.
Lou also has a number of prestigious business awards to her name including IoD’s 'Manchester Young Director of the Year’ and in 2010 she was named both ‘Digital Entrepreneur’ and ‘Female Entrepreneur of the Year’ by EN magazine. In December 2012 Lou was also listed in North West Business Insider's TMT 33 – a list of the 33 most influential people working within the technology, media and telecommunications sectors.
In April 2013 Lou was appointed to the Board of the Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership.
Twitter: @LouCordwell
Lou also has a number of prestigious business awards to her name including IoD’s 'Manchester Young Director of the Year’ and in 2010 she was named both ‘Digital Entrepreneur’ and ‘Female Entrepreneur of the Year’ by EN magazine. In December 2012 Lou was also listed in North West Business Insider's TMT 33 – a list of the 33 most influential people working within the technology, media and telecommunications sectors.
In April 2013 Lou was appointed to the Board of the Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership.
Twitter: @LouCordwell
Dr. Dee Dyas
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Dr. Dee Dyas is Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture at the University of York. The Centre undertakes research, produces books and interactive resources, and works with historic churches and cathedrals to create innovative interpretation schemes. Dee has published widely on pilgrimage in England and beyond. She is the editor of several interactive resources including the ‘Pilgrims and Pilgrimage' CD-ROM, 'The English Parish Church through the Centuries’ DVD-ROM and 'English Cathedrals and Monasteries through the Centuries'.
Alan Garbutt
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Alan Garbutt heads the Manchester Town Hall Complex Transformation Construction Programme which is responsible for delivering all property related aspects of the £165m Transformation programme. He has overall responsibility for working with the diverse range of Construction Consultants, Contractors and In House staff employed to design, manage and deliver the complex of Grade 2* listed buildings and surrounding conservation area infrastructure. The programme is aimed at refurbishing the buildings to provide modern flexible high quality accommodation suitable for the delivery of 21st Century public services. Prior to joining MCC, Alan has over 30 years of experience gained primarily in the private sector, latterly in Commercial Development and previously in Project and Cost Management Consultancies in the UK and in the Middle East. He is passionate about improving the image and performance of the Construction Industry and advises a number of Charities on achieving performance from the Construction Sector.
Louise Hampson
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Louise Hampson is the Development Officer for The Centre for the Study of Christianity & Culture. She read Medieval English and History at Birmingham University and has an MA in Archive Administration from UCL. She worked as an archivist in the county record offices of Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, specialising in medieval ecclesiastical archives as well as education and outreach and was at York Minster for many years as Head of Collections. She wrote for the CD-ROMs Images of Salvation and Pilgrims and Pilgrimage and was associate editor for both The English Parish Church through the Centuries and English Cathedrals and Monasteries through the Centuries Louise is currently completing a part-time PhD at York on the history of the stained glass of York Minster since 1500.
Peter Insole
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Peter Insole is a Senior Archaeological Officer in the City Design Group at Bristol City Council with responsibility for managing the Bristol Historic Environment Record. He has over ten years of experience using GIS to manage and present complex historic information. Peter has specialised in working with diverse communities to help them explore their heritage as featured in the publication Sites and Monuments Record to Historic Environment Record: Local Authority Case studies (English Heritage, 2010). During 2010-11 Peter managed the English Heritage funded project to create Know Your Place, an online resource that won the ESRI UK Local Government Vision Award, 2011 and was an RTPI Project Finalist in 2012. The resource is being used for various community partnership projects such as the creation of the Local List and the management of the Heritage at Risk register.
Gareth Langley
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Gareth Langley is co-founder of Stardotstar, a digital agency who create delightful interactive content, tools and toys that improve people's lives. What links their 'augmented audioscapes' with their technology platforms, to their games is an audience centred design approach that dips into the human emotions and motivations for participation and interaction. With clients including BBC, Channel 4, The Open University, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Gareth will talk about some of their past projects, as well as a couple in the pipeline for user interactions and landscape interpretations.
Dr Andrew Lowerre
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Dr Andrew Lowerre is Archaeologist (Spatial Analysis) with English Heritage, based in Portsmouth. His main research interests are in the history and archaeology of Anglo-Saxon and medieval settlement and fortification, and in the use of GIS. He is the author of Placing Castles in the Conquest (2005), and is working on the development of a comprehensive, GIS-ready dataset based on Domesday Book.
Ray Mosley
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Ray Mosley joined magneticNorth 5 years ago as a Senior Interactive Designer/Developer. Ray is passionate about user centred design - making beautiful things that people can use with ease and natural intuition. Ray has helped to deliver some of magneticNorth’s best known projects including the new BBC Sport mobile site, Desert Island Discs and The Proms.
Ray is the creative lead for the mN team currently working closely with the NOMA team to define and deliver the digital strategy for Manchester’s new neighbourhood.
Twitter: @RayMosley
Ray is the creative lead for the mN team currently working closely with the NOMA team to define and deliver the digital strategy for Manchester’s new neighbourhood.
Twitter: @RayMosley
Chris Wild
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Chris Wild is a field archaeologist with Oxford Archaeology North, based in Lancaster. For the past 15 years he has specialised in building recording and industrial archaeology, and has developed a specialism in recording above and below-ground remains from many industries, notably textile manufacture and glass-making. Chris' main area of interest lies in the excavation and recording of Industrial-period workers' housing, most especially in the inner suburbs of Manchester, with the most notable site comprising the excavation of 72 dwellings of eighteenth and nineteenth century date in central Manchester. He also co-wrote the publication on the recording of the Murrays' Mills cotton spinning complex in Ancoats, Manchester.
Jamie Quartermaine
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Jamie Quartermaine is a Senior Project Manager with Oxford Archaeology North and has 28 years’ experience of research specialising in landscapes and buildings archaeology. He has either directed or managed all landscape surveys undertaken by OA North which has to date surveyed over 1100sqkm of uplands across Northern England and North Wales. In addition to his archaeological background he is also a qualified land surveyor and has been active in combining these elements by developing survey techniques to record archaeological sites. He is actively involved in the development of photogrammetric techniques to record landscapes, monuments and artefacts and has been working with Pennsylvania State University to develop and apply these techniques on a number of archaeological sites across Northern Israel.
Karen Ziesler
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Karen Ziesler joined the Heritage Lottery Fund in May 2004 and took up her current role in June 2009. As a Development Manager, she leads a small team who advise potential applicants prior to application, promote HLF across the region, and work with partners in development priority areas to encourage a flow of good quality applications.
Before joining the HLF, she worked for a voluntary sector infrastructure organisation, in an advice and capacity building role. She has a long-standing involvement in the voluntary sector on a personal basis and has a particular interest in equality and diversity.
Her early career was in the chemical industry where she worked in marketing, quality management, and health and safety management across a number of UK and European sites.
Before joining the HLF, she worked for a voluntary sector infrastructure organisation, in an advice and capacity building role. She has a long-standing involvement in the voluntary sector on a personal basis and has a particular interest in equality and diversity.
Her early career was in the chemical industry where she worked in marketing, quality management, and health and safety management across a number of UK and European sites.