Moving on from our successful visioning session, the team has started to coalesce around tasks. At this early stage that means research and experimentation, along with the creation of simple test rigs to measure results.

In this post, we’ll look at the progress of the engineering team for Neil Harbisson’s new “time sense”.

Our first residents, the Cyborg Foundation, came to Thoughtworks with fascinating new concepts for sensory organs they would like to explore. Our aim is to help them move forward.

Following on from an initial period of outreach across Thoughtworks offices, we have now assembled a global cross-disciplinary team. Yesterday the team assembled for a planned 4-hour visioning session, and I have to say I was surprised at just how effective it was.

This week we have been building out our new lab space here in New York. We are designing the space for internal use by employees, as well as for public use during community events and programs.

The lab provides facilities for exploring new hardware and emerging technologies. It features three new VR stations with powerful computers, a hardware prototyping station, and an array of other fascinating equipment - everything from 3D video rigs to Brain-Computer Interfaces.

We had a spot on Jeff Jarvis’s new web TV show this week, dotNYC, along with Christina Warren and other guests.

It gave us an opportunity to talk about the residency and why we are running it, as well as allowing our first residents, the Cyborg Foundation, to talk about their plans.

We are very happy to introduce the first artists to the Thoughtworks Arts Residency program. Moon Ribas and Neil Harbisson are artists who use technology to explore the concept of cyborgism - the permanent integration of humans and machines to create new senses.

Moon and Neil will be working out of the Thoughtworks New York office for the next sixteen weeks as our first artist-in-residence.

Thoughtworks is excited to announce the launch of our arts residency program. Based out of our New York offices, the residency offers artists access to our facilities, equipment and staff for a period of sixteen weeks.

During this period, artists will be working with the global team of ThoughtWorkers including developers, designers, analysts, data scientists, project managers and various subject matter experts to further their research and development of their projects and artistic pursuits.