ACCESS SPACE

 

I’m James Wallbank I’m one of the people who run access space. Access space is an open access centre where you can come and learn about the internet where you can do all sorts of exciting creative things online.
What makes Access Space really different is it costs nothing, the hardware and software costs absolutely nothing, its completely legal. We think this is really exciting so if people come in and learn all sorts of creative things; make websites, make graphics, make music, then when they walk out of the door they don’t have to rely upon us instead they can find their own computers and we can give them the software, totally legal and then they can role out to their friends, it’s a very exciting model.
We run things on recycled computers and we use them in conjunction with free open source software. We are actually the first Open Access media centre to take on board this and we are also the longest running.
When people come in they see all the computers connected to the internet, but it’s not just all about surfing, it’s about getting creative, we want them to start to produce, find their own voice online and there’s all sorts of software to do amazing creative things.
As long as some people got some creative productive project to do, we say yes get on with it and you can ask anyone in the space for help, there’s only one catch, people are going to start and ask you for help and that’s what we ask of people, you must.