What use will the Tagtool be to your work in the future?

"At the moment it would help engage with young people. Especially with those who are not confident with their literacy and not confident with themselves that they are any good at anything. The fact is they can pick up that little pen and do a scribble and we get art at the end of it. It will help the fun element of learning, helping them to mix with other people, team building, there are loads of things it can address."

"I'm very grateful to whoever funded the whole Nine Trades and happy that we have had the opportunity to get involved with it. We cannot thank whoever has done that enough. We would very much like to be involved with the Tagtool support committee. I know we have had an initial meeting but I would still like to be involved with keeping the whole Tagtool thing going and what's coming out of it because I think that can provide a lot of new and exciting opportunites as well. You can definitely put our names forward."

Jackie McFie & Kerri Sutherland Youth Project Workers

Grey Lodge Community Centre

Grey Lodge Designers

A few images from todays workshop with young people from the Grey Lodge AAAA project. We spent two days drawing inspired by the work of UK designer Jon Burgerman. The result were designs on T-shirts, bags and shoes as well as some nifty drawing-annimation using the Tagtool.

Library staff also got bitten by the creative-bug ...

There's evidence of it in the Science and Business office.

Jackie and Kerri youth workers from Grey Lodge stop to model their bags....before returning to HQ.

Those must have matching bag and shoes....

Tagtool at McManus

A few weeks ago I met with Kerri Mcgowan the Creative Learning Officer at McManus, (who incidentally was involved with the development of the Nine Trades project over the past few years). I briefly told Kerri about my priorities at the library and introduced her to the Tagtool concept. In true Dundee style she made me very welcome at McManus.

I explained that I'm working with Sandra and Verity from the library with six teenagers on the Grey Lodge AAAA project. We want to experiment with the Tagtool and projecting their drawings to music. The original idea was to work in the Steps Theatre but it wasn't a suitable space. The plan is to produce some work to present in June at an event at Tanadice. Kerri was hugely supportive and is kindly making available the study room for us to work for two days in April and May.

Quick thanks to Colin and Derek from Inclusive Solutions who've kindly have lent me their projector to experiment with next week. I plan to try out overlapping images and drawings with the Tagtool.