The project, Thursday’s Fictions, that went through the last LAMP: Story of the Future residential is currently being produced & designed by Gary Hayes in Second Life in collaboration with its creators Dr Richard James Allen and Karen Perlman, with story support from LAMP mentor Jackie Turnure, as a tie in with a transmission of [...]

Project description: You’ll Never Have Another Week Like This One! In order to enter the world of Thursday’s Fictions, you must respond the following “You have five minutes left to live. It is always said that you can’t take it with you, but what if you could? What would you take with [...]

Project description: You are your own adventure. A new web-based writing game in which the participants develop their own take on the mystery story that they are presented with.

Team Members
Bernard Cohen, Daniel Ormella and Natalie Kershaw
Guardian Mentor: John Buchanan
LAMP Lab: June 2007
Target media: Broadband PC
bernard cohen Broadband PC Games john buchanan [...]

Project description: Take the pulse of the city through the wrists of writers, using sms. This is an entirely new service that builds upon the strengths and flexibility of mobile, locative, and social networking technologies, applied uniquely via collaborative inputs from a network of writers. p.u.l.s.e is an innovative collaborative writing project that explores the [...]

Project description: Fun and frolics with three feisty frogs in a swamp.” Animation, interactive TV show which is a combination of adventure, story and game.

Team Members
Kate Kennedy White, Murray Debus and Jon Kudelka
Guardian Mentor: Lisa Romano
LAMP Lab: June 2007
Target media: TV, Broadband PC, Video Portals, Mobile
adventure story Broadband PC Broadband TV frogs [...]

Project description: Everyone has something to hide! The Parcel is an interactive cross-media murder mystery series set in the virtual community of Middlemania against the backdrop of the local council elections

Team Members
Belinda Bradley, Franz Docherty and Albith Delgado
Guardian Mentor: Jim Shomos
LAMP Lab: June 2007
Target media: TV, Broadband PC, Video Portals
belinda broadband Broadband PC [...]

Project description: Killer Gene - who should control the code of life itself? An ARG based around the disappearance of a genetic scientist.

Team Members
Sonya Pemberton, Carla Drago and Dan Thorsland
Guardian Mentor: Paul Bennun
LAMP Lab: June 2007
Target media: Broadband PC, Video Portals, Outdoor, Print, Mobile, TV
arg Broadband PC Broadband TV Games genetic [...]

Project description: A beautiful girl is on the run with 100 grand. Do you help her… Or turn her in?” An alternate reality game driven by a “true story” of a kidnapping that is an extension of a short film scheduled for shooting June 2007

Team Members
John Trefey, James Mitchell and Julien De Nys
Guardian Mentor: [...]

Project description: A New World. A daring crusade. All in the name of friendship and freedom! CAPTIVE is a fun and exciting quest based online RPG for primary school children centred around British and Australian convict heritage in the 1820’s, taking history lessons into a whole new dimension… fun!

Team Members
Catherine Pettman, Kate Davis and Andy [...]

CATHERINE GLEESON - “Designing the Future”
Recorded live and unedited during the LAMP Story of the Future lab in Freycinet in May 2007 in front of the eight teams developing emerging media projects.
“Design is all about making creative decisions..The thing I want to stress today is the thinking of design, that the best designers out [...]