Then Try This
About
We’re a non-profit research, design and development organisation based in the UK (Cornwall). We mostly work on environmental and social projects, typically (but not exclusively) with universities, charities/non-profits, and councils.
Some buzzwords for things we can help with: Citizen science, community technology, participatory science and technology (including facilitation), game design, decision support tools, software, hardware, data visualisation, illustration, design, public engagement, research impact, civic involvement, open science/data, appropriate technology.
We like figuring out new ways to do complicated bits of research, making complex stuff easier or more accessible, and helping to involve or reach wider communities in interesting, respectful and mutually beneficial ways. We do this in lots of ways, whether that’s by designing a new piece of open source and low cost research equipment, making an online game or installation to understand a scientific concept or help solve a research question, building an app to give people access to previously inaccessible data and help them make decisions, or running events to help people work better together across boundaries.
All our work is open source*, and much of it is rooted in rural issues, rather than being city-centric. One of our biggest motivations is making knowledge more equitably distributed. We’re used to designing for unusual or difficult situations, and have built things for places with no power or internet, where hardware might be trampled by elephants or fall in the sea. We hear about people using our work all around the world because it’s all freely available to use and modify.
Contact
Then Try This, Propagation Studio 7, Potager Garden, High Cross, Constantine, Falmouth, TR11 5RF
