Creative Informatics E11 Final Report

Creative Informatics has been an ambitious research and development programme based in Edinburgh, bringing the city’s world-class creative industries and tech sector together, providing funding and development opportunities that enable creative individuals and organisations to explore how data can be used to drive ground-breaking new products, businesses and experiences. This report reflects on the investment of Creative Informatics (CI) at Edinburgh Napier University in the physical infrastructure of a lab, E11 to support the use of emerging new creative technologies by creatives. The report discusses the types of equipment invested in and how this equipment supported R&D that was used by both creatives and academic practitioners and considers how this type of low threshold borrowing might be supported in the future to support the development and uptake of CreaTech in the creative industries. The report reflects on the different types of R&D activities which took place in the E11 space for exploration, experiencing and experimentation of creative tech by creative businesses and researchers. Additionally, the studio was used to support over twenty individual creative and academic R&D projects. A programme of E11 outreach events (Studios and Friday Forums), hosted inperson and online during the global pandemic, reached with 758 participants.