Creative Workforce for the Future will develop industry employment practices embracing inclusion and diversity as an asset, and nurture young talent from under-represented groups to gain the experience required to sustain a creative career. A key aspect of the programme is supporting creative SMEs to develop a more inclusive workforce and practices in the region by undertaking an intensive programme of inclusive professional development.
I’m interested in the overlapping and intersecting areas between physical movement and emerging digital technologies like VR and AR. The scope of liveness and illusion that create a sense of being transported from our physical location to somewhere different through the digital world, or of separate environments and bodies being brought into our physical space through the digital.
Reflections on my process so far, touching on what it means to be part of such an innovative fellowship programme as well as the thoughts influencing my research question to date.
Roseanna Dias is a Fellow for Digital Placemaking. Her interest is in the role of digital in collective, cultural networking. In her blog, she reflects on what it means to be thinking about inclusion as part of this programme.
I’ve been wondering whether we should use the term digital spacemaking. For me, a space is characterised by the way it’s used, made by how people behave in it and all the things that happen there.
I'm Grace Quantock and my research interest is inclusion in digital placemaking, particularly around appetite for inclusive digital transformation in policy makers and public services.
