Telematics what happened? / continued time decolonised

 Might be just summer drift, I think the prerecorded shows I left in Exeter are in the wrong order. But scheduled for YouTube also. Just a sequence of prompts and questions. Sometime in the autumn there may be clarity in the issues even if no obvious answers. I am in Kendal, here again in September. But access to Phonic FM studio also next week for Wild Show and We Don't Know. Mostly music but I can include comments in real time. Thing about "decolonised time" I think is to avoid restrictions on access. Radio is scheduled into hour chunks and sometimes scripted but in chat mode is mostly a list of topics.

The Exeter Street Arts Festival at end of August is followed in September by online conference for Digital Exeter / Tech Exeter then LikeMinds start of October also online, not in Exeter as last year. @wearelikeminds #ExeStreetArts #Vision2020Exeter should find details.

Meanwhile Drama Show continues with #RuinsHE and #BlendCafe25 . Fiction way to cover what happens as education moves online. Also appears as blog , tweets, links to video. Meanwhile there could be a fact based journalism of some kind. Citizen journalism is open so many versions quoting each other. So any comment welcome.

In Exeter central area there is continuing concern around student accommodation. Seems to be everywhere. Is there a long term study about the campus, how many students will be online, forms of blended? So far cannot find anything for Exeter. Could be anywhere.

Also Telematics. Used to be studied on St Lukes campus linked to education. When did it stop? What else happens? @UnbundledHE explains how HE is outsourcing and specialising. Exeter has dropped Chemistry and Music. Looks like Telematics also but what else replaces it? 

Round about October should be clear how many students return from outside UK and how viable things are. Online might be part of normal.

The "Not Making Of" Option

Thinking about video situations for the next month or so. July / August is a holiday phase so mostly notes mode and as basis for future versions. There may be actual news in September or soon after as people return to offices. Only time pressure is that the Storyteller is away on tour. Most weeks he is in the Phonic FM time slot before the Wild Show so I have got to know his situation quite well. I will be trying to get in an hour early for the next three weeks. This started at a time of a Phonicon event linked to News From The Sun as visual art. I found a radio version on the internet archive. Then the continuity announcer stated that next week it would be Having A Wonderful Time. So I played that and thought it could be the basis for another set of events. Holiday culture days out or holidays as containment for social pressures. So I return to this to explore.

Should be week two but it turns out JD is on holiday soon so we will make the trip to the Canal Basin / Boat Shed this next week. And fit in the News From the Sun from the archive. In the short story the holiday makers never come back from the package. Equivalent could be a basement for creative activities from which nobody returns. Details yet to be worked out but there may be an escape route assuming people then spend the rest of the day away from the Phoenix. Boat Shed one option so that bit may be recorded next week.

Recorded as in bits of sound or video and some stills. Sound can be mixed in studio later. Backgrounds maybe for video mix when we work out the script a bit better. The Phonic FM studio is definitely ok for sound, not sure about the rest of it. So it may turn out to be a "making of" sort of collection or a "not making of" if there is never a final edit.

All Creative Commons as the radio plays are such from the Internet Archive and it should make things easier. If someone would try a similar idea then it could go in the mix. Starting with text in this blog. The basis is the location that becomes a sort of set. I am also working on a Walk along the spine on Lancaster university campus. This will be for next year when the spine is completed. The idea is to use the route as continuity for discussion on digital disruption and education. Spots for tech vision, critique and business planning, library and bookshop response, views from humanities and social science.

Meanwhile there will be an update on Management Theory at Work in Radio. This has been tried out the last couple of summers. The Bike Shed Theatre was available for Dark Times, then we tried out rented lighting. Should be easier in daylight at Boat Shed or nearby. Earlier Management Theory at Work was the title for two conferences at Lancaster. There was also a social media version of a third one that morphed into a sound version. The content could be the basis for another conference if this makes more sense at a future time.

On YouTube the videos will be part of playlists. There are some already that may change in scope. The Exeter campus could be used for tests of discussions for the Spine Walk. There is news of online courses to be launched next year so some real base for discussion. No change in the campus so far butb this may be a question to ask.

The Storyteller informs me that the Bad Blood performance will be repeated at Exeter Visual Art in the autumn. This is located at the end of the Alphin Brook  so could connect with a walk along the river and canal. Not sure how this fits but the sequences will need some definition on occasions. The "not making of" approach can only go so far and needs links to somewhere else.