The Global Studio 2009-2010 Reflections - Archie Colvin

Archie Colvin reflects on two of the Global Studio's projects: 'On the Move 2: Computing Now' a collaborative project supported by Intel and 'Entertainment on the Move' a project undertaken in collaboration with Motorola, Hong-ik, Northumbria and Ohio State Universities.

...'the best features of the Plone were the ability to, and the WordPress too as they were similar, the ability that we could view all of the other projects as well, it was really helpful to see the different levels and where other projects were at and see how you were comparing and also the feedback.
...the tools enabled collaboration by obviously allowing us to communicate, but, being able to discuss and design together so that we could see how they could see how they were doing and we could give them feedback and within the Skype meetings we could bounce ideas around and without these things we couldn't have worked together, we could have just emailed them our work but it wouldn't have given the same feel, and within Design, you can never really work on your own, and if you're doing a project together, then you need to be able to see them and interact with them, and so using these tools really enabled that.'

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