Over the past few weeks we have been working on designing a workshop which can be used to introduce people to Blockchain identity management systems (IMS). We call it Pizza Block! Participants in the workshop spend the majority of their time collecting fictional skills which allow them to help solve Edinburgh’s lack of pizza. As […]
Volunteering on the Ledger: Alternative Currencies
Volunteer Scotland and the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Design Informatics, with Northumbria University, invite you to join us for Workshop #2 of ‘the inside track on blockchain’ series. This unique research event is designed to shape an innovative and emerging technology towards the practical needs and aspirations of volunteers and volunteer-involving organisations. Join a […]
Volunteering on the Ledger: The Inside Track on Blockchain
Volunteer Scotland and the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Design Informatics, invite you to join us for Workshop #1 of ‘The Inside Track on Blockchain’ series. This unique research event is designed to shape an innovative and emerging technology towards the practical needs and aspirations of volunteers and volunteer-involving organisations. Join a small group of peers […]
Seismic See-Saw Donates To Oxfam Emergency Earthquake Appeal
One of the advantages to donating money through blockchain is that it lets the user, track with reasonable certainty what the charity has done with their money after they make the donation. In the case of Seismic See-Saw, design informatics take the responsibility of donating money as the donors expected. To simulate the distributed ledger […]
Seismic See-Saw at Data Pipe Dreams Exhibition
Seismic See-Saw was part of the Data Pipe Dreams pavilion a temporary exhibition space to showcase research work during the Edinburgh Art Festival, during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We invited visitors to donate £1 of their own money into a physical smart contract. The conditions of this contract were, the money would be donated to […]