Mel McCree is an academic and practitioner in outdoor and environmental arts, play and learning, with a focus on children’s equitable futures, environment-society relationships and eco-social justice. Mel is an Academic Fellow on the Amplified Publishing Pathfinder and Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at Bath Spa University. This blog post is the first in her series entitled ‘Ideas from near future survivors’. Here, Mel explores issues of equity in children’s future imaginaries and their experiences of a digital life.
Stephen Hilton is a fellow at Bristol + Bath Creative R+D, looking at the future of Bath and researching future opportunities for the creative technology industry in the city. In this article, Stephen looks at the possibility of a Digital Twin for Bath. What that would mean for the city and how Digital Twinning could take form.
Creative Producer for Rising Arts Agency and co-leader of BE IT, Will Taylor shares their learnings and critiques of traditional R&D practise, proposing a new framework that allows for greater inclusivity. This piece of writing was inspired by a collaboration between Ambient Lit and Rising Arts Agency.
Malu Villela Garcia and Alice Willatt, researchers at the University of Bristol, have been supported by Bristol+Bath Creative R+D to explore the possibilities for new business models in the creative sector. In this blog they reflect on some of their findings.
Connecting Bath is a report commissioned by Bristol + Bath Creative R+D. The current/planned roll-out of 5G connectivity and the future development of 6G are potentially significant opportunities for the creative industries in Bath.
Louise Brailey is the Editor of Crack Magazine, an independent platform for contemporary culture and is an amplified publishing industry partner. In this article, Brailey explores the history of Crack Magazine and considers how we can utilise technology differently and asks whether this will help foster a better environment for online communities in the publishing sector.
