Cultural Incubator and Social Networking in the North East, part II

An agent I chose to design an incubator for is Culture Lab Radio - a voluntary initiative to increase awareness of activity within Culture Lab and in this way encourage people to colaborate (Newcastle University http://culturelab.ncl.ac.uk/home; check culture lab's social initiatives: http://culturelab.ncl.ac.uk/research/inclusion-engagement) .According to the founder of this radio - Ko-Le : "My initial motive to set up the station was to capture and relay live performances in the lab, for I felt that there weren't always a critical mass in the city to support these events".On the Culture Lab's site we can find radio's contribution to social inclusion and engagement explained in this way: ' Culture Lab radio was initiated to help connect people to one another. Playing a wide variety of experimental music and sounds, Culture Lab Radio exists to provide a creative outlet for our students and the wider Culture Lab community and is a valuable medium through which to widen the reach of our research and activities.'

Culture Lab in Newcastle University campus:

Even though Culture Lab Radio is an internet radio,rather than a traditional broadcasting station, it allows to externalise ideas at macro scale (similarly like Finnish Institute is promoting itself via media, and most people come to know this organization by being able to use internet, access to internet in Finland is legalized as part of human rights). Read @Finnish Institute blog : http://blog.finnish-institute.org.uk/2012/02/broadband-access-is-human-right-then.html
This is where I set up my task - micro environments have to INCREASE the potential of artistic collaborations and 'feed' the macro climate. In other words, what happens in the broadcasting room becomes very important (similarly, Finnish Institute becomes a 'venue' for unexpected collaborations).

A radio not only as a technical but also social apparatus became my side interest in this project.

(diagrams to follow)