Last night myself and Carwyn got out in Cardiff to play a quick little game with ARK LAB. It was the first time ARK LAB has held a game event and so it was interesting on a number of levels. I think the biggest thing that everyone found was the ease of which people slip into playing and ignoring the world around them. It's a very powerful aspect and something we are looking into for future workshops.

See slide 5 of the presentation for the reason of the hat.

The second presentation of the day this time by myself. Although I must say the six minutes felt like two seconds. I really enjoyed the challenge of talking about my passion of design and climbing in the constraints of Pecha Kucha's format. 20 slides each shown for 20 seconds, no stopping no going back. The cinema space in Chapter is a great place for the event and I thought the second one was even better than the first. For me there seemed to be a bit of a social theme. I spoke very quickly about ARK and it's recent work but there were also a number of other presentations centred around responsibility and the idea of society. Hope people enjoyed it and that you may have been inspired to go climbing :-)

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Andrew reading out the questions for a previous NakedWales pub quiz for the designers in Cardiff, during last years Cardiff Design Festival.

Many of you will know over the last few years we have been working on a community site called Naked Wales which has recently been developed by Andrew into Creative Wales. This week Andrew has been asked along to ARK's creative network meet up, which aims to look into the creative networks in Cardiff and Wales to see if there are things that can be aided through collaboration.