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Edinburgh Festivals Ideas Challenge

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  • What if you provided free wifi at all major festival venues?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Ross Colquhoun

  • What if you had an app that randomly shuffles a festival itinerary for you to make the Festival experience even more exciting?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Ross Colquhoun

  • What if you had an app that located the nearest toilet?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Ross Colquhoun

  • What if you had a free app which introduces visitors to the layout of the city via an audio tour, using GPS to guide them to attractions.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Ross Colquhoun

  • What if one penny from every festival/fringe ticket sale went to supporting good causes like helping disabled to see more shows?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Wrath of God

  • What if there was a workshop at main venues where art students made & sold rain hats made from old fliers & posters?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Wrath of God

  • What if you could catch a free circle-route bus or tram to some of the outlying venues?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Wrath of God

  • What if there was a low cost creche for hard presseed parents to leave children safely so they could catch a show?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Marvellous Mary

  • What if the festival invites selected celebrities who can change the world with their smart ideas and cool visions.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Marvel Kamile

  • What if the book festivals are organized in a funny way,like circus & people will enjoy this type of work.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by sitender punia

  • What if The Book Festival had a "rolling video" tent continuously showing authors talking about, or reading excerpts from, their books?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Ronnie McNeil

  • What if The festival included eclectic book tours of Edinburgh's specialist bookshops- perhaps by drama students in concert with the Fringe Festiva

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Debra Slonim

  • What if universities, colleges, clubs and societies could add themselves to a mailing list for festival employers to publicise their vacancies?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by David Jarman

  • What if Charlotte Square was closed to traffic for the duration of the Book Festival so that even more marquees could be added on the Square?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Derek Scott

  • What if The Book Festival servers were upgraded to cope with web bookings from day one? Maybe liase with Fringe to see how it can be done.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Susan Kealey

  • What if There was an extended train service running out with Edinburgh to and from local areas, ie; the fife circle in order to avoid expense

    Submitted over 14 years ago by patrick devaney

  • What if why not all the performers plant a tree from now on, with its name signed, on some nearby bold hill. It would be ecologically friendly

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Solza Grceva

  • What if smaller versions of the Fringe guide were printed for the different categories, but listed in TIME order - useful for filling show gaps.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Bonnie Davies

  • What if why not bring back ross's band stand in the princes st gardens for reviews.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by alan young

  • What if why not hold the gay/lesbain pride week end to august?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by alan young

  • What if Fringe zones across Edinburgh was introduced to allow others outside the High St and Bristo square area to benefit from the Festival.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Kim Finlay

  • What if there were 2for1 offers for the last night of the Fringe, to fill the venues & encourage people to stay on after the English Bank Holiday

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Carol Ball

  • What if all festival materials were made from compostable materials? (e.g., cups, plates, utensils, trashbags, signage)

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Emily Baughman

  • What if The introduction of a Council Tax would ease the congestion of a poverty stricken rural area.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by deleted deleted

  • What if there was a week of Best of the Fest where the most popular shows and events were repeated for the first week of September?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Hope Dickson Leach

  • What if there was an app giving you an avatar, logging you in each venue & allowing you to see where your friends are? A Marauder's map #harrypotter

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Hope Dickson Leach

  • What if you could have a Festival Oyster card to purchase tickets to any event at any festival at the location until you're out of credit?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Hope Dickson Leach

  • What if the Book Festival worked with libraries & book groups in the months running up to the festival to encourage reading festival authors' work?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Hope Dickson Leach

  • What if the festivals had baby friendly versions of their events - for example matinees where parents could take babies?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Hope Dickson Leach

  • What if the Book Festival recorded all its events and made them available as podcasts?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Hope Dickson Leach

  • What if the Film Festival moved back to August and all the other festivals shared their venues with it in 2012 to welcome it back?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Hope Dickson Leach

  • What if Temporary moving sidewalks in long stretches of straight midway for the tired, people with children and the disabled?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by K Fairweather

  • What if you ran an overhead tram with several stops to move people from one point to another.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by K Fairweather

  • What if Iphone festival app had location and event information, and a debit app? A skew # would make all purchases until amount is used

    Submitted over 14 years ago by K Fairweather

  • What if water fountains were available in more locations, encouraging re-filling, rather than wasting, of plastic water bottles?

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Will Sawney

  • What if 2 Fringe guides were available: 1 (large) featuring full listing detail; 1 (small & less paper-demanding) only times, dates and locations.

    Submitted over 14 years ago by Will Sawney

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