Peter Bradwell
Researcher
Peter Bradwell is a researcher at Demos. He is interested in the ways that information and knowledge is shared between people, and between people and government...
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Getting to know you
Today we are launching our new discussion paper Making the most of collaboration: an international survey of co-design. It sets out the findings from an international survey of 466 public service practitioners.
You can download the paper here. continue reading on 30th June 2008 in Co-Design: barriers and enablers - TechnoPresident? In 2006, David Cameron famously described Gordon Brown as an 'analogue politician in a digital age'. It's an image painted consistently by the opposition - a man out of touch with the pace of change. Whatever the merits of these allusions, a similar dynamic seems to be playing out in the US, between Obama and McCain. That's been picked up in the coverage of this year's Personal Democracy Forum Conference. continue reading on 24th June 2008 in For Your Information
- Video is not killing the video star We're in the midst of accumulating and reflecting on the material we have drawn from the various video workshops for this project. And naturally we're starting to revisit some of the questions we started with around the production and consumption of video. What is its value? What does it give to the people producing the content, or those watching or sharing it? Something that is hovering in front of us is the issue of intellectual property and copyright. continue reading on 27th May 2008 in Children of Europa
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Podcast: The Politics of Public Behaviour
Last week we published a new pamphlet called The Politics of Public Behaviour.
Here, Duncan talks about the role of government in influencing people's decision making, arguing that this is a new battleground for politics. continue reading on 23rd May 2008 in Demos Podcasts - Podcast: Talking Cures We're back for a new series of Demos podcasts. In the coming weeks you'll be able to hear all about our work on the politics of public behaviour, privacy, and radicalisation, to name just a few. Stay tuned. First though, Duncan caught up with Jack and Faizal, to talk about their new pamphlet The Talking Cure, which was launched on Wednesday... continue reading on 15th May 2008 in Demos Podcasts
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Managing protest...
It's worth taking a look at the recent Governance of Britain Draft Bill and accompanying White Paper. It's worth keeping an eye also on how the Bill develops as it passes through Parliament. One of the headlines is a possible repeal of the requirement that protesters seek permission int the vicinity of Parliament.
In January we wrote a response for the Managing Protest Around Parliament consultation. If you'd like to have a read you can download a pdf copy here. continue reading on 14th May 2008 - Like school, but not Last weekend I got pretty excited by 'iTunes U' - an area of iTunes that lets Universities in the US share audio and video from their lectures, talks and events. You can subscribe to courses, listen to one-off debates, and hear some of the leading thinkers in a range of fields dispensing their vast wisdom. Thinking about this in the context of sites like the splendid School of Everything, it's another alternative way to learn, and to share knowledge. continue reading on 22nd April 2008 Comments (1)
- Berlin. 24-25/03/08. On 24th and 25th March I spent two days at the marvellous Schlesische 27, a youth arts organisation in Kreuzberg, to the south east of Berlin. It's nestled in a set of buildings off Schlesische street, in an area with growing numbers of artists and an established Turkish population. There were six young filmmakers in the workshop, all aged between 17 and 22. Thanks, first off, to the facilitators and filmmakers for being so welcoming. I was only there two days so unfortunately I haven’t... continue reading on 8th April 2008 in Children of Europa
- Eppur si muove? Last week we hosted a joint seminar with the Italian think-tank Vision on the Italian general elections. Thanks to everyone that came along, and especially to the speakers. You can listen to the presentations from the event here. continue reading on 4th April 2008
- Helsinki workshop video When Celia and I were in Helsinki we made a video of some of our initial thoughts on the process and research, and of our conversations with to two of the young filmmakers and one of the facilitators. Here's the short piece of film from our trip. continue reading on 29th February 2008 in Children of Europa