eco consulting—web services with patience and attention to detail
for the arts, cultural, educational, voluntary and ethical sectors
research:
emerging technology · art-technology · digital information handling · disability & technology in the artsstrategy:
art and technology · web training and education · interdisciplinary connections · transdisciplinary researchwebtech:
standards-compliant web coding & web technology choices · web access audits and fixes · information planning and handling · web hosting for cultural/voluntary/education/ethical sectorstraining:
information architecture · web primers for arts practitioners · web access and usability · web standards & valid, semantic cross-browser (X)HTML & CSScurrent projects:
East Midlands Arts in Rural Areas Network (EMARAN) website · DeMontfort University New Media course planning and lecturing · Star Disc sculpture project website · Loscoe State Opera band websitecompleted projects:
Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915 · Culture East Midlands rural website · disability arts online · Fluffy Cabs (womens' motoring site) · artsinfo · The Emergency Artlab · ArtsAccessUKInformation gathering defines civilization as much as food gathering defines the nomadic cultures that preceded the rise of urban communities, agricultural surplus, and stratified social hierarchies.
We long for more connection between what we do for a living and what we genuinely care about… to be seen as who we feel ourselves to be rather than as the sum of abstract metrics and parameters. We long to be part of a world that makes sense rather than accept the accidental alienation imposed by market forces too large to grasp…
Much as everyone thinks they want financial security, the happiest people are not those who have it, but those who like what they do.
