Calvium Ltd

18/04/2024

Great session - thanks to all for coming! Looking forward to taking these conversations further.

23/11/2023

"If we are constantly improving the experience and keep giving people something to come back to, they will come back."
Visit Ely discuss their strategy and activities - adopt to adapt to evolve. Find out how they are harness the potential of digital technologies to benefit their local businesses, communities and tourist offer.

https://calvium.com/visit-ely-digital-visitor-experience/

17/08/2023

Need to refresh your knowledge? Help yourself to some stellar free resources!
From tech for innovation to digital placemaking, tech stack pros/cons to accessibility and AR for heritage: https://calvium.com/resources/

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And all free! What's not to love?!

01/08/2023

“If you have the opportunity and there's the appetite within your local area, just go for it. Calvium have been brilliant; it’s hard to not be excited by all of the opportunities.”
Amy Beckett, Stroud District Council

Discover Stroud Trails is a visitor and community place experience app supporting active travel policies, boosting the local economy and deepening destination engagement.

The app was built using the Place Experience Platform, now available through government frameworks GCloud and Digital Outcomes and Specialists 5.

See how your place-based goals can be delivered with the Platform: https://calvium.com/place-experience-platform

31/07/2023

“[W]e endeavour to work to the principle that if any person finds they cannot engage or interact with what we are designing and producing, the correct word is ‘unusable.’

If we all start to apply that simple shift of perspective when asking: Is this design usable? — then we move to a mode of working that really works for everyone — an approach that all should be eager to develop further, continue to apply universally to our work, and share as a paradigm methodology.”
Cooper, Walsh and Walsh

This book focuses on the inclusive design of digital interactives for visitors and staff, one segment of museums’ larger program offerings.

Access Smithsonian, the central accessibility office for the Smithsonian Institution, initiated this collection of essays in order to spur innovation, encourage information sharing, and motivate cultural organizations around the world to consider accessible and inclusive digital interactive design as an essential component of their greater DEAI efforts.

Calvium’s Dr Jo Morrison contributed Chapter 14: Mobile Digital Wayfinding Tools: Enabling and Enhancing the Experience of Visitors with Different Access Needs, p321

Download free from the Calvium Resources collection: https://calvium.com/resources/ #:~:text=Inclusive%20Digital%20Interactives%3A%20Best%20Practices%20and%20Research%2C%202020

Inclusive Digital Interactives - from Access Smithsonian, Institute for Human Centres Design and MuseWeb

28/07/2023

Best Mobile Technology Award win for the Place Experience Platform!

Calvium CEO Jo Reid spoke to Business Leader after our award win, sharing a brief intro to our company story:
https://www.businessleader.co.uk/gotech-awards-winner-calvium/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=Purplex+Marketing&utm_campaign=RSS

Industry acknowledgements are fantastic, but the proof is in what place managers think and do with the Platform:
“Calvium does it again…. You never failed to amaze me! Thank you!”
Sales and Events Officer, Ely Council

Discover what the Platform could do for your destination: https://calvium.com/place-experience-platform/places/

We caught up with Calvium CEO, Jo Reid, after scooping to Go:Tech Awards trophy to talk inspiration, breakthroughs and more.

27/07/2023

‘Place-based digital storytelling can transform streets into a stage, and transport audiences to a different era.’

Dr. David Rosenthal is a historian at the University of Exeter and the co-founder and trail director of the award-winning Hidden Cities programme. In this interview David shares his thoughts on how digital technologies have changed storytelling over time, how he sees this field developing, and offers his top recommendations to future locative storytellers.

https://calvium.com/david-rosenthal/

Want to place your stories into the palms of your audience? The Place Experience Platform empowers you to do just that, creating and developing location-based digital experiences, delivered by app. Discover more: https://calvium.com/place-experience-platform

21/07/2023

Crystal clear UX, design and functionality makes applications used, loved and efficient. But what’s your best route to get there? No-code, bespoke or cross-platform?

We offer full stack services, but for many people and purposes a cross-platform solution like React is perfect. For example, for the Cropper game we used React and React Native development for seamless desktop and mobile delivery.

Read how it could help your work, in the latest addition to our free Resources collection:
https://calvium.com/resources/react-react-native-development/?mtm_campaign=Calvium%20React%20and%20React%20Native%20LinkedIn

20/07/2023

Mark Hallett led the delivery of one of the most significant waterfront developments in the UK: Igloo Regeneration’s Porth Teigr project. In this interview he shares his experience of sustainable finance, placemaking, development, digital innovation and sustainability: https://calvium.com/mark-hallett/

"Collaborative working is important to imagine and understand the ways that different technologies can support people's experience of places in meaningful ways - and in ways that they want and value. "

Hear more about igloo's holistic and sustainable practices as a purpose driven real estate development manager and the UK’s first real estate B Corp member. In their most recent audits, they were placed in the top sector worldwide.
https://calvium.com/mark-hallett/

11/07/2023

Making complex assessments simple, clear and engaging
Before investing time, energy and space into biomass cultivation, land managers need to know if it’s worthwhile. But assessing the many factors has been very complex - until now. The Envirocrops project is building an online tool to support and investigate the suitability and profitability of growing perennial energy crops.

One part of this project is Cropper - “A great little game with a good challenge”, aimed at those new to the subject, and early secondary school STEM lessons: https://envirocrops.com/game

Read more about the project, and how digital technologies can support farms to transition away from fossil fuels: https://calvium.com/projects/envirocrops/

20/06/2023

*Starting in 30 mins!* Free, online presentation on digital placemaking for placemakers, shapers managers and leaders.

In this session, Jo Morrison explores place-based digital technologies and how place professionals can frame and understand the opportunities of digital placemaking for their own locations.

It draws upon a wealth of practical projects and interviews with place leaders, and shares findings from recent groundbreaking research undertaken for NHS North East London that has community engagement and co-design at its heart.

Attendees will learn how they can adopt a digital placemaking approach to make their places better - improving social, cultural, economic and environmental outcomes for towns and cities.

Register to watch live or later: https://week.digileaders.com/talks/digital-placemaking-for-place-management-and-leadership/

A Session by Dr Jo Morrison

16/06/2023

Key evidence supports award of £500,000 investment into public space infrastructure.

By illuminating existing park paths at nightfall, the City of Edinburgh Council aims to enhance the perceived safety of its parks and encourage their use as sites of connection, to increase adoption active travel and public transport journeys.

We built a robust data set and conducted analysis to provide evidence for and focus to the investment. As investment is delivered into the parks, the city's residents will be able to reap the associated health, economic and environmental benefits.

https://calvium.com/projects/city-of-edinburgh-council-parks-research/

Supporting Edinburgh's active travel action plan.