Lancashire Balloonascope

balloonascope.folly.co.uk

Lancashire Balloonascope was a creative consultation project, investigating people's relationships to digital culture with the county's Libraries Service, library users and the general public.
 
Throughout May 2009, artists John O'Shea and Neil Winterburn facilitated discussion relating to “digital culture” in a way that was engaging for people across a spectrum of digital literacy.
 
The artists delivered a series of interactive workshops in locations across the county, using their newly developed Balloonascope device, which is a giant interactive diagram, composed of balloons.
 
The Balloonascope helped to make aspects of the discussion around digital culture more tangible, whilst still doing justice to the complexity of the subject.
 
The findings from these interactive workshops are collected on a dedicated website, where we’re eager to continue the conversation.
 
The results of this work helped to shape folly's programme of delivery in Lancashire, our growing relationship with the Libraries Service, and the Libraries' own engagement with the digital realm now and in the future. Through this work folly and the Lancashire County Libraries and Information Service were able to develop Radar, a programme of artists' residencies in public libraries across Lancashire.