Fieldnotes Stiwdio
Event Location: Startup Stiwdio Sefydlu – Cardiff
Tuesday 29th April
5:30pm-8:00 pm
Can you create a whole digital copy of Wales? The whole of it?
Where is the intersection between literature and digital worlds?
What are the tools artists use to help visualise the infrastructure that will build our cities of the future?
Fieldnotes Stiwdio is a monthly roaming platform for scientists, researchs and artists to engage with each other’s world through fascinating talks that will help us make sense of a complex world. Taking place on the last Tuesday of the month.
A collaboration between USW’s Startup Stiwdio and Cooked Illustrations, this April we will have at the Cardiff Stiwdio three great speakers:
Dr Rebecca Hutcheon
Dr. Rebecca’s research is in literary geography and the digital humanities. She is interested in how nineteenth-century writers use urban place and space to create an illusion of realism. More than ever, digital tools (such as maps, 3D words like Minecraft and even graphs) allow us to visualise literature in new and exciting ways and help up to explore the spatial strategies employed by realist writers.
Find out more: Published work: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/new-approaches-for-digital-literary-mapping/6096DAEAAAF867D7C08D19E49EC59857
Sherlock Holmes and Oliver Twist – mapped!: https://holmes.memorymapper.org/Sherlock Holmes in Minecraft: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/litcraft/#/pages/custom-builds
Neeraj Kavan Chakshu
The dawn of Digital Twins- virtual copies of real-world systems, from factory floors to human minds, from engineering to marketing. Powered by AI and physics, they help test ideas, predict outcomes, and improve decision-making without real-world risks.
If anybody is interested in academia and wants to read about Neeraj’s already published academic work (technical only), then they can look up his Google scholar profile-https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q1UHhKsAAAAJ&hl=en
Outside academia, anyone can reach him to discuss Digital Twins (no matter which industry they are from)where he offers a no-fuss initial consultation ( https://calendly.com/neeraj-nkchakshu/30min?month=2025-03) to any business. Neeraj simply enjoys exploring the topic and whether Digital Twins could genuinely help. If they’re not the right fit, they’ll say so – no pushy sales, just honest advice.
Jamie Lamb
Jamie Lamb is a game developer using his skills to build 3D visualisation of planned developments, from tree planting to SuDs, his work brings the imagined world closer to a built reality.