New Media Thinking

I'm currently a Technical Associate with Space Makers Agency, an organisation that looks to help creatively re-use empty spaces. I build online services for them. This included the main Space Makers Website (built on Wordpress) and Mapping Forgotten Spaces (built on Drupal) for RIBA London, a site that allows people to submit and geotag empty spaces in London and proposals for re-use. Space Makers are most famous for the Brixton Village project, of which I have taken a lot of photos as documentation.

I work as an Online Architect for Dadamac Ltd, an organisation based in South London and Nigeria that helps people collaborate with a focus on UK - Nigeria Development. I'm helping build out their online platform on the main site, as well as advise on how to use online tools and I help fix their technical issues to help them achieve their goals.

Also I'm working with a new start up social enterprise....
Watch this space.

I'm planing a new project exploring interactions with the City (more info soon). and what happens when the City talks to it's inhabitants. This follows a twitter bot, Breathing London, which I created and forgot about in the summer of 2009, but which has been getting attention due to recent issues about Londons Air Quality.

Last summer (2009) I spent my time in a group of tree houses in regents park (thanks to the Tree house Gallery). I facilitated two projects, a work shop in ‘How to Travel the World for Free’ and Collaborative Scroll, inviting members of the public to help write a collaborative story on an old typewriter. Both these projects where collaborations with artist Anna Cole.

Between 2006 and 2008, I studied MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art. I developed three projects for my final year show. A platform to hobbyists to design their own blogging objects, including three ‘tweetject’ examples, a plant that tweets about light, a tree that tweets about the wind, and a cat that tweets movement (the cat had to be simulated most of the time). A set of dystopian stories about a proposed ethical financial trading system, that explores it's collapse through participants perspectives. Finally, a set of conceptual prototypes as objects for the Data Obsessed, a way to explore a different relationship with what data is, in a alternative and playful way.

I also can do web development, I am experienced in Drupal and Wordpress Theming, html, css, php, mysql, image editing (photoshop etc) and video production. Some example sites I have developed are: Kicks Store and My Glass Nail File (Drupal theme and some custom module code), E.ngage and Style Makes Sense (Wordpress theming), G's Bar and Diner (Custom simple CMS). Matt Wilson Photography (Custom Gallery based CMS). Above where developed for Media Beast.

I'm active on Twitter, not so much on Facebook, I take a lot of photos and upload them to Flickr, I occasionally Blog (and here too). I will often be at the Tuttle on Friday mornings.

Currently based between Atherstone and London, looking for a London house share (Brixton / Herne Hill) as I currently stay above a pub when in London.

If the any of the above interests you, or would like me to work with you on a project, I can be contacted via e-mail on
andy [at] newmediathinking [dot] com.

Note : A placeholder as my old site was worringly out of date, but if you want to view my old projects, you can view my older site.