Miniature Glasgow

Miniature Glasgow is a short film in which the city is imagined as a village of 100 people.

It is inspired by the Miniature Earth project www.miniature-earth.com

The aim is to present information about the city and its people in a simple and accessible way.

The data used in its production comes from a range of sources. This first version was made in 2009 but the data will change over time.

We hope you enjoy Miniature Glasgow and that it stimulates new thoughts, conversations and understanding about our city.

The Glasgow Centre for Population Health is planning to develop a miniature cities comparison tool with other European cities, applying the same concepts and focussing on health inequalities.

Miniature Glasgow was part of a larger 2009 initiative to address health care challenges for the city through a series of civic conversations.

What would this story look like for your town or city?

You can learn more about the initiative at partner sites Glasgow Centre for Population Health and the International Futures Forum. 

The GCPH is a partnership between NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow City Council, and the University of Glasgow, funded by the Scottish Government.

For more information, contact:
miniatureglasgow@drs.glasgow.gov.uk

COINs 2010 Keynote: Jesse Dylan | Most Creative People 2010 | Fast Company

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Jesse Dylan, Director; Founder Form; FreeForm

"You could see the eyes of the people getting liquid," says CERN experimental physicist Maria Spiropulu of the crowd for a Jesse Dylan short film. The audience? Google's Larry Page, Tesla's Elon Musk, and elite scientists in the fields of astro-particle physics, cosmology, and dark matter. The film? Six minutes on the Large Hadron Collider, the massive particle accelerator designed to replicate the big bang and address core questions of physics. "The language of the microcosm we are exploring can be described very well with mathematics," Spiropulu says. "It is very difficult to make a picture or a poem of what we do. The film captured an adventure to discover the unknown. It is haunting and it sticks with you." More...

Jess Dylan brings extraordinary creative perspectives as Collaborative Innovation Networks COINs 2010 Conference Keynote speaker Oct 7, 2010.

I-Open is conference co-sponsor and supports the value Jesse's leadership in creative digital media brings to creativity, communication, and collaboration in Open Source Economic Development.

More on Jesse's COINs 2010 Conference Keynote:

Lybba - Unleashing swarm creativity to make open-source healthcare a reality

In his opening keynote, Jesse Dylan, award winning director of the Obama campaign video "Yes we can" talks about how his nonprofit, Lybba, is helping give life to the open source healthcare movement. Lybba's mission is to connect people with the community, information, and resources they need to take care of themselves and one another.  

Lybba creates online environments, media campaigns, and social experiments that forge meaningful relationships between hospitals and schools, doctors and patients, researchers and policy-makers. It takes an ethical and ecological approach to every challenge it faces. It combines media, design, science, and technology to make a difference, free for all, free of commercial interest. 

Jesse's ultimate goal is to bring together every patient looking for answers and provide a platform so that every stakeholder in chronic and rare diseases has a voice to create a community where innovation, empowerment, and compassion flourish.

Join us! Learn and connect at:

COINs 2010 - a collaborative interactive community Web site