By Caroline Taylor ● Issue 174 (January/February 2023)
K2K mas in the metaverse…and beyond | Plugin
Trinidad’s K2K has been innovating with their mas designs since debuting their award-winning medium Carnival band in 2012. Now they’ve moved into the NFT and metaverse landscape. Karen and Kathy Norman, the twin designers and investment bankers behind K2K, talk about what this means for mas — as told to Caroline Taylor
Engage, Technology, Science, Belize
By Erline Andrews ● Issue 158 (July/August 2019)
Archaeology’s eye in the sky | Discover
For centuries, much of the evidence for Mayan civilisation has been covered in dense rainforest. Now new developments in LiDAR technology have made it possible for archaeologists to do sophisticated aerial surveys — revealing tens of thousands of previously unknown structures. Erline Andrews learns more
Immerse, Music, Technology, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Mark Lyndersay and Sharmain Baboolal ● Caribbean Innovation (15 May 2020), Issue 156 (March/April 2019)
Stories of steel — the future of the steelpan | Panorama
Carnival is the season of steelpan. But behind the Panorama stage, the future of T&T’s national musical instrument will be shaped by administrators, craftspeople, arrangers, and educators — like these men and women profiled by writer Sharmain Baboolal and photographer Mark Lyndersay
By Lisa Allen-Agostini ● Caribbean Innovation (15 May 2020), Issue 151 (May/June 2018)
Create Caribbean: tech to the people | Plugin
Founded by scholar Schuyler Esprit, Dominica’s Create Caribbean was well on its way to making tech tools for education available to all. Then Hurricane Maria hit. Lisa Allen-Agostini discovers how the digital humanities project is putting the pieces back together
Engage, Technology, Science, French Guiana
By Erline Andrews ● Issue 150 (March/April 2018)
Next stop: space | Discover
As more and more entrepreneurs look towards space exploration, it’s still almost unknown outside the industry that one of the world’s busiest launch sites is on the doorstep of the Caribbean. Erline Andrews learns how French Guiana’s half-century-old spaceport is essential to our future exploring the galaxy
By Franka Philip ● Issue 107 (January/February 2011)
Cooking APP a storm
What do most people do these days when they want a recipe? In the old days – the 20th century – they’d probably look in a...
Immerse, Technology, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago
By Mark Lyndersay ● Caribbean Innovation (15 May 2020), Issue 148 (November/December 2017)
The games are afoot | Snapshot
Video games aren’t just for teenagers to have fun — globally, they’re a highly lucrative business, requiring state-of-the-art technical know-how, creative flair, and significant investment. Mark Lyndersay meets the minds behind Couple Six and Coded-Arts, video game developers in Barbados and T&T, whose agenda includes creating games that reflect the culture of their home islands
Engage, Culture, Environment, Technology
By Erline Andrews ● Issue 146 (July/August 2017)
The energy of the future: renewables in the Caribbean | Green
Nelson Island — a tiny fragment of land less than one mile off the northwest coast of Trinidad — is a focal point of the island’s...