Proboscis | SoMa | consultancy

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SERVICES | CLIENTS | COLLABORATIONS | QUOTES |

SERVICES

Format Design – Proboscis can create innovative custom formats for the dissemination of ideas, research and information; for examples, please see our own formats such as DIFFUSION eBooks, the DIFFUSION Generator and StoryCubes.
Issue Exploration Tools – Proboscis can design and facilitate tools and events (such as our Creative Labs model or Bodystorming Experiences) designed to bridge ways of working to achieve innovation in product and service development.
Cultural & Innovation Research – Proboscis can bring its unique perspective and approach to conduct research for clients.
Writing & Editing – Proboscis' expertise covers network technologies, wireless and mobile technologies, artist's film, video and new media practices, photography, literature and design. Proboscis can commission, design and produce publications to contextualise practices, processes and products.
Content Development – Proboscis can assist clients in planning and implementing strategic outcomes for existing content (such as print and online publishing, electronic and wireless data services), including the development of client-specific solutions such as events and exhibitions.
Public Speaking – Alice Angus & Giles Lane are available as speakers for seminars, conferences & teaching. For more details on our extensive lecturing and speaking experience, please consult our online CVs.

CLIENTS
Recent work includes:

Science Museum, London
Proboscis have assisted the Science Museum London's Art Programme on advance research for a future exhibition.
Department of Constitutional Affairs, UK Government
Proboscis are developing a pilot project for the Electoral Policy Division using innovative tools and techniques to enhance democratic engagement at local level.
IPPR (Institute of Public Policy Research)
Giles Lane has written a case study on Intellectual Property and Public Sector Information focusing on the Ordnance Survey for the IPPR's IP and the Public Sector project.
Antenna Audio
Giles Lane co-authored (with Sarah Thelwall) a strategic analysis of international funding sources and scenarios for the cultural sector.
Derbyshire Arts Development Group
During 2003/2004 Alice Angus is leading a research project into new and non-traditional outlets for contemporary art in Derbyshire.
IDEO London
Between 2002-2003 Alice Angus & Giles Lane researched, wrote and edited an internal publication for IDEO London describing their innovative work on wireless environments for the Prada Epicenter Store in New York.
Arts Council of England
Proboscis have designed, published and distributed a number of essays on behalf of the Arts Council of England as part of the CODE: Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy Conference.
Rotovision
Giles Lane co-authored and edited Interactive: The Internet for Graphic Designers with writer and designer Paul Farrington.
NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts)
Giles Lane acted as a project assessor for the Education Team.
LUX CENTRE / Pandaemonium Festival
Alice Angus & Giles Lane commissioned and edited the festival catalogue for the 2001 Pandaemonium Festival of Moving Images.

COLLABORATIONS & ALLIANCES
As an organisation dedicated to research and innovation, Proboscis sees creative intervention and collaboration with corporations and public agencies as fundamental to its wider activities. Proboscis is developing models of creative engagement for applying unfettered creative solutions to business as well as culture and public policy and is particularly interested in issues relating to the intersection of new networks (social, physical and information) and emerging cultural forms and services.

DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
Proboscis designs experimental projects which address issues of creativity and innovation and the application of dynamic processes to problem solution. These projects can be developed in collaboration with clients to enable them to harness creative processes free from more rigid systems (of management or procedure) often encountered in large organisations.

CREATIVE MISUSE
One of Proboscis' key processes is strategic and creative 'misuse'. By challenging the applications of a technology, a technique or a mode of enquiry, we aim to expose new possibilities for devising products and services. This model of innovation acknowledges the leftfield practices of artists and cultural producers as a different form of research: as social innovation, or advanced use.

Current and recent collaborators include: France Telecom R&D, Wanadoo, Orange, HP Labs and Ordnance Survey.

QUOTES

"We have particularly appreciated the social context and fresh insights Proboscis has brought... and hope to bring this perspective to other projects we are working on inside Orange."
Karl Humphreys, Head of Product Experience Design, Orange UK

"Proboscis has given us first hand knowledge of how geographical information is utilised both technically and sociologically by a non-geographical user."
Mark Freeman, Research & Innovation, Ordnance Survey

"Proboscis have been a closer fit to the way we work here in HP Labs. This has made the collaboration a smoother one than we find working with short term product-focussed SMEs."
Phil Stenton, Hewlett-Packard Research Labs

"Proboscis' approach to the project has not been governed by any commercial interest or gain; this has resulted in a team that is very focused on the outcomes of the project and the benefits of the research."
Kieran Arnold, Programme Manager Mobile & Multimedia Services, France Telecom R&D UK Ltd

For further information, please email info@proboscis.org.uk