Beyond Belfast 2021 Conference App Available Here!

Make the most of your time at this years Beyond Belfast 2021 with the dedicated conference app. Highlighting key speakers, showcases and entire schedule, you can also access live showcases including Home of Titanic, a full-scale AR experience. The App also features the best of Belfast, ensuring you enjoy your visit to this great city.  If visiting the App on a mobile device, it will automatically send the user to the appropriate app store, depending on their iOS or Android device.

Get your app through the following link options:

https://www.yellowdesign.tv/beyond/

App for Apple iOS:  shorturl.at/huAKS

App for Android: shorturl.at/demJX

Future Tuesdays present Future Foundation’s Everything You Need for Funding Success 12 October 2021.

On Tuesday 12th of October 2021 Future Screens NI hosted its first hybrid In Person and Streamed event. The monthly innovation showcase event Future Tuesdays featured Future Foundation’s funding success showcase with key speakers from local and national funding bodies. This one-off event will address key aspects in successfully securing funding within the creative industries.

The event featured:

Host Karishma Kusurkar, a designer, podcaster and founder of Belfast Design Week and Karishma's World. Karishma is a thinker, creator, maker and innovate UK grant holder, specialising in entrepreneurship.

 Tom Fiddian, Head of AI & Data Economy Programmes at Innovate UK. Tom is a globally recognised thought leader on technological innovation across multiple sectors. Tom is the lead on artificial intelligence (AI) and the data economy, and plays a lead role in developing and implementing Innovate UK strategy on artificial intelligence (AI) and the data economy. 

Thushara Sabreen, Innovation Lead for the Creative Industries at Innovate UK. Thushara is responsible for creative industries programmes across Innovate UK. Thushara Sabreen is also the founding director of Tinker Design, a wearable technology company.

Nuala Toman, Project Manager of Future Screens NI. Nuala is an expert in funding, innovation and entrepreneurship having personally held £2.5mn in research grants and access funding for a range of emerging charities. Nuala is the former Acting Head of Research Development at Ulster University, Chair of Breastival, Vice Chair of Thrive, Board Member of the NIMC and Council Member of CCMS.

Andrew Reid, Head of Production at Northern Ireland Screen. As Head of Production, Andrew is responsible for the investment of Northern Ireland Screen’s £13m annual development, production and skills funds. He oversees the delivery of: physical production; project development; new and emerging talent and skills development schemes. Andrew is an alumni of Cass Business School’s Inside Pictures; a member of BAFTA and a founding member of the Irish Film and Television Academy.

Big Motive and the Information Commissioner’s Office launch UX & Children’s privacy design programme.

Belfast-based independent design consultancy group and Future Screens NI project associates Big Motive have co-designed a User Experience (UX) design programme with the Information Commissioner’s Office. The UX Design code guidance launch Privacy by Design: Designing with children’s privacy in mind is Wednesday 20th of October from 3pm to 7.30pm. The project focus is on designing in line with the Children's Code and associated guidance. The Children's Code came into force in September 2021 as a code of practice for creating online services likely to be accessed by children. Graphic designers may have to consider the code if they are creating online services or products for children online, or if they want to transition into UX design.

The online event will launch the guidance offering a great opportunity for graphic design students or designers interested in design for children’s products, services or general User Experience to come along and learn a bit more about the code that will affect the working design field.

For more information and to sign up follow the link here.

Rejig and Catalyst have joined forces to develop school leaders' skills in design thinking.

Future Screens NI Rewriting the Narrative awarded-project Catalyst Schools programme to be offered to school leaders at no cost to the schools! Northern Ireland-based training and consultancy business Rejig have partnered with not-for-profit technology networking hub Catalyst to produce Catalyst Schools a programme grounded in design thinking to bring together leaders, teachers, pupils and Catalyst Business partners to support one another in learning the skills of innovation. Grounded in design thinking, Catalyst Schools brings together leaders, teachers, pupils and Catalyst business partners to support one another in learning the skills of innovation. The programme is open to post-primary school leaders from across Northern Ireland, and it’s fully funded by the Department for the Economy, so there’s no cost to schools. They are seeking post-primary school leaders who are interested in joining us for a 3-day professional learning cohort on the skills and mindsets to support a school-wide culture of inclusive innovation and deeper learning and applications for this unique professional learning programme are now being accepted.

For more information and to apply please follow the link here.

Future Screens NI & Arts Council of Northern Ireland publish artists & arts organisation survey of pandemic impact.

Future Screens NI and funding partner Arts Council of Northern Ireland have published findings of surveys with artists and arts organisation who received Emergency Funding support during the pandemic. The survey suggests the often devastating impact of the pandemic on Northern Ireland’s creative sector pointing to public funding as a lifeline to the sector. Between April 2020 and February 2021, the Arts Council co-designed and administered eight emergency programmes, with funding from the Department of Communities, to stabilise the sector, protect jobs and skills, and increase opportunities for people to access the arts during lockdown. £11.3 million was distributed through 2,869 grants to creative practitioners and £14.7 million through 501 grants to arts organisations. 

For more information on the survey visit here.