About this event
Join change makers, creative practitioners, community leaders and creative technologists from across Scotland for a day of talks, hands-on workshops, playful experiments and conversation.
Gathering | IRL: LAB
Explore what happens when creative technology meets community arts, heritage, regeneration and creative placemaking. How could these approaches bring heritage to life, make space for people’s voices or open up new ways to take part in shaping a place?
Bring an idea you’d like to develop, a challenge from your work or a question about your place. Or simply bring your curiosity and see what sparks. No technical experience is needed, and you don’t need to know how creative technology might fit into your work.
There will also be space to explore the bigger questions. As technologies such as AI develop rapidly, how can people working with communities help shape how they’re used, understand their impacts and navigate the tensions they bring?
Free Event. Booking Required
Accessibility Information
The Front Room Accessed directly off Dumfries High Street. This is a ground-floor space. There are no steps from the street into the building. A wheelchair accessible toilet and two smaller toilets are located on the ground floor and can be accessed from the shop without any steps.
Public Transport The Whitesands bus station is about a five-minute walk from The Standard. The bus stop on Great King Street for town centre services is a two-minute walk. It takes around 10 minutes to walk from Dumfries Train Station to The Standard.
Car Parking Midsteeple Quarter is a car-free development with no designated car parking. Limited parking is available on Irish Street or within Irish Street Car Park (DG1 2PB). Other nearby free public car parking includes that at Whitesands (DG1 2RS), Loreburn Street (DG1 1BT), Munches Street (DG1 1EX) and Brooms Road (DG1 2JX). Restrictions may apply. You can search local parking options via Dumfries & Galloway Council here.
Cycling Bicycle racks are available to the rear of The Standard building, close to Irish Street.
