Seed-corn funding

• Exploring digital futures through play
  How can we harness the power of play to imagine futures in more inclusive, accessible and collaborative ways?
• Profiling the energy consumption of video streaming over 5G
  As the streaming of video content only continues to increase, how can we make sure we’re trying to meet sustainability targets whilst using ever more digital online services? This project will look at the video streaming services pipeline and specific objectives around their carbon footprint.
• Cognition - making mixed reality experiences accessible
  How can we make virtual reality more accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities or impairments?
• Wearable robots for enhancing embodied communication
  Could wearable robotic technology help enhance communication, especially for those with complex communication difficulties?
• Against digital fatalism: resisting technology hype through hopeful artful interventions
  How can we see through the hype around emerging technologies and increase the hope about the future?

• Striving for a fairer digital playing field in Brazil
  There’s been lots of positive effort to address digital inequality in Brazil, but not all of its output gets shared as widely as it might. This project is using technology to overcome social polarisation and reconnect societies in the country.
• Caring for fragile infrastructures to enhance urban sustainability
  A pilot project that aims to discover how immersive meetings can help stakeholders (re)engage with urban environments.
• Helping to boost kids’ confidence with maths
  Adult numeracy in the UK appears to be in decline, and maths anxiety widespread. Using digital technology, this project is linking maths and play, building positive attitudes to learning maths among primary school children.
• Heroic verse: a poetic push for maths and tech
  Poetry is humanity’s oldest linguistic art form – and surprisingly well-suited to improving the accuracy of cutting-edge digital technology.
• Sketching new perspectives on energy systems
  Could you draw a digital future? This project aims to promote better understanding of technological innovation by doing exactly that.