After a long absence ReacTickles is back online. Regular users of reactivecolours.org will notice some changes. At the moment the ReacTickles in the Gallery can be downloaded onto any platform. We have made the source code available for developers to continue to experiment with OpenFrameworks to generate new ReacTickles. This has always be the vision for ReacTickles, and it has taken many months of preparation. My deepest thanks go to Joel Gethin Lewis for bringing together a group of enthusiastic coders at the OpenFrameworks Lab at the V&A museum in London. You will be able to see the beautiful ReacTickles created there in the Gallery. Thanks also to Ed Burton, who has been busy creating ReacTickles for iPhone. You can find more in this on the developer page.
This is very much an ongoing process of design and development which will rely on feedback to ensure that we progress in a dynamic way that best reflects the creative interests of all our users. The Forum has three themes for feedback, we encourage you to sign up and start sharing your experiences of ReacTickles. Over the next few weeks you will start to see a lot more activity on the site as we have workshops, school visits and international links with schools in the ReacTickles calendar. More on these can be found on Twitter, so please follow us.
ReacTickles 2.0 -ReacTickles Creativity Box has been re-packaged to make it less costly to reproduce and to ship outside of the UK. TAG Learning and SEMERC, our current distributor are the main outlet for this version and they have an active role in its production.
The ReacTickles Gallery was a highly popular feature of the reactivecolours.org website. Recent hosting and staffing issues have highlighted the problems of a monolithic system, managed through a proprietary infrastructure. As such the site was not sustainable without substantial continued investment. Although sales of ReacTickles Creativity Box supported this, it has been technically demanding, so we are moving the site forward in a more democratic and modular way.
Joel, Ed and Will are taking the lead on this new ReacTickles model, which we hope will thrive on the input of both the developer and user community and as such is designed to enable people to view the source code, comment and feedback into the site. From a Gallery of 10 basic ReacTickles, we hope the new site will grow and become populated by diverse contributions from people interested in ecological design. There more about our proposed reconceptualisation of ReacTickles on the Guiding principles for new ReacTickles page.
If you would like to be alerted to any developments or to request further information, please email:
Wendy Keay-Bright
Reader in Inclusive Design
Senior Lecturer in Time Based Media
Department of Creative Communication
Cardiff School of Art and Design
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