Jon Pratty reports on a plan to create a town-scale digital arts network across Hastings, as a way of tackling high levels of deprivation and homelessness in the area.
Up the dark, steep tunnel of the West Hill lift in Hastings, a Victorian funicular railway, two figures are tethered to climbing ropes high above the streets of this tourist hotspot. Ian McInnes and his workmate from TechnologyBox are threading a fibre cable to complete another node of the town’s broadband network. Ian climbs up walls, down ducts, and through ducts and tunnels underfoot, laying cables in places people have long forgotten existed to build the bare bones of the network... Keep reading on the RSA blog
Up the dark, steep tunnel of the West Hill lift in Hastings, a Victorian funicular railway, two figures are tethered to climbing ropes high above the streets of this tourist hotspot. Ian McInnes and his workmate from TechnologyBox are threading a fibre cable to complete another node of the town’s broadband network. Ian climbs up walls, down ducts, and through ducts and tunnels underfoot, laying cables in places people have long forgotten existed to build the bare bones of the network... Keep reading on the RSA blog