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Eighteen months after completing our work on the Pararchive project and the launch of the Yarn storytelling community, Carbon was invited to extend Yarn with a new Projects feature. In use by the Thackray Medical Museum’s Birth Stories community research project and separately by National Holocaust Museum, both projects sought to add features enabling their research to be represented as distinct in the universe

Carbon assisted New Zealand based Shotz Creative in preparing an application to the 2015 round of NZ On Air’s Interactive Documentary Fund. Shotz was keen to highlight the effects of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). and Using our experience of crafting and creating community storytelling platforms such as Yarn, Carbon wished to understand where native forms of web storytelling might go next. We proposed to create

Part of an series of internal studies on the future of books, Bookstop took its inspiration from the Culture Hack movement and Consider The Library, a “hack” that utilised recently released catalogue data from Leeds Libraries to reveal which titles on Amazon were available from your local library. Carbon wished to revisit the notion of books as social objects, but accompanied by digital tools for orchestr

Following a successful residency in the inaugural Leeds Creative Labs programme, Carbon was commissioned by the University Of Leeds’ School Of Media & Communication to develop its community storytelling concept further. Funded by the AHRC’s Connected Communities programme, Carbon worked with the university and partners – including the Science Museum, BBC and National Media Museum – to design and deliv

Spring 2013 saw Carbon collaborate with long-term partner Tethr and Arc Finance to produce concept designs to track the performance of microloans for solar energy across India and Uganda. Our relationship with Tethr focussed on packaging and aggregating various technologies into an appliance that could bring communication and connectivity to distressed, crisis stricken areas. Arc Finance’s role was to provide w

The labs are a mechanism to help the University of Leeds’ Creative & Cultural Industries Exchange and its partners innovate their academic research by catalysing collaborations between academics and the region’s creative and cultural industries. The lab curates cohorts of academics, students and creative technologists to prototype new works, ideas and methodologies at the intersection of art and technology,

Carbon was commissioned by the Wireless Grids Corporation to assist in developing concept applications over a six-month period, which would showcase  technologies licensed from the University of Syracuse’s iSchool. Working with WGC’s UK-based development studio, Carbon contributed to the design of several applications which illustrated the potential of wireless grids technologies, through a series of desi

Carbon was approached by regional venture capital firm, Enterprise Ventures to evaluate an investment opportunity in  personalised news services. As EV’s interest deepened and the investment process advanced, Carbon’s Imran Ali joined as a non-executive director to assist with preparing the business for a seed funding round, developing a social media strategy, consulting on product design and recruiting a

Launched in November 2007, met:space was Leeds’ first coworking space, located in the former BBC building known as Old Broadcasting House, now owned by Leeds Met university. Drawing on the values and manifesto articulated by San Francisco’s original coworking community, The Hat Factory, Carbon was commissioned by the university’s New Technology Institute to develop branding, pricing, service plans a

Orange’s Technology Research team saw social bookmarking services of the Web 2.0 era as foundational components for a social filing system for a user’s experience of the web. Carbon was commissioned by Orange to create a clone of delicious.com after negotiations to license or acquire Delicious came to an end. The clone was to serve as a “straw man prototype“, upon which Orange’s internal