23 – 23 September 2023
We’re back with a weekend dedicated to the past, the present and – most importantly – the future of Union Street and the City Centre area of Aberdeen.
We’ll be working with the team from Our Union Street; cultural organisations and heritage groups; planners and designers; citizens; and our multi-skilled volunteers, to work on a number of identified challenges over the weekend.
If you have never been to a hackathon before or are interested in knowing more about the projects previously tackled then please check out our hackathon overview page.
Who should attend?
Anyone! Despite our name, coding is only a part of what we do. It’s essential that we have subject area specialists. In this case that might be planners, architects, designers, transport specialists, retail and the urban realm, animators, game designers, archivists, librarians, historians, pupils, students and those who work in research or policy. And those who have less formal roles too.
Of course, coders, data wranglers, designers and other techies are important to a hack weekend.
Over the weekend individuals will champion challenges, then we’ll create projects and teams to work on them over the two days.
Challenges
We will have a number of challenges. Already these include:
- How can we harness the power of great storytelling with augmented reality to create Union Street-based events that attract people into the city centre ?
- What if we were to take an existing 3D model of Union Street and turn it into a highly realistic, fully textured and fully editable model of the street that can be used by the Our Union Street team for presentations, what-if scenarios and visualising different choices and options?
- Document the history of individual Union Street buildings through time.
- Have a photo walk over the two days to photograph EVERY building on Union Street and make those openly available.
- and more!
You can read about these and others in more detail here – and you can suggest your own ideas.
Those with long memories may remember CTC6 – the History Jam at which attendees worked on a number of projects relating to the city centre and its history. What opportunities are there to revisit or revive some of those and build on previous work? You can read more about the projects from CTC6 here.
Sponsorship
We are grateful to The Our Union Street team for their sponsorship and support.
Format
This event will be run as a physical event only.
We’re working on finalising the exact format but the weekend will resemble this:
Sat 23 September 2023
- 09:00 Open for breakfast
- 09:30 Introductions
- 10:00 Identify potential projects, form teams
- 10.30 Break-out sessions to familiarise ourselves with some of the tools and platforms
- 11.30 Projects start
- 12.30 Lunch
- 13:30 Projects continue
- 17:00 Wrap up for day one (TBC)
- 17:30 Pizza and drinks for those who stay
- 19:00 or earlier – close of Day 1
Sun 24 September 2023
- 09:30 Breakfast
- 09:45 Projects start
- 12.00 Lunch
- 13:00 Projects continue
- 15:00 Show and tell
- 16:00 Event close and clean-up.
Throughout the weekend we will have regular check-ins where we speak about our projects and hear what others are doing.
You can book a ticket now at https://ti.to/code-the-city/ctc30
By signing up for this hack weekend, you agree to our Code Of Conduct.
Tickets
As a charity we aim to encourage all to attend our events – and to make the barrier to attendance as low as we can make it. We also have to consider our costs of administration. We’ve introduced a range of tickets to make attending as easy as possible. These include weekend physical space tickets (for the best experience), single day physical space. Pricing is flexible with suggested and minimum prices. Thanks to Our Union Street’s sponsorship, we’ve managed to keep prices down!
If cost is a barrier to you attending please get in touch and we can issue you with a ticket at no cost, no questions asked.
Book tickets – https://ti.to/code-the-city/ctc30
Please note that we have policies for participants on acceptable conduct and Covid 19. By signing up you agree to these conditions of attendance.
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