Business development - Bristol & Bath Creative R&D

An Update from the B+B Creative R+D Team, 17 March 2020

To all of our network, we wanted to keep you up to date with the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D response to the current Covid-19 situation. The B+B Creative R+D Team are working together to re-design the appropriate parts of the programme so that we can continue our work as far as possible. This crisis brings unprecedented challenges for Creative Industries and we will be consulting with our community and our stakeholders to design ways to support the cluster in our region.

Creative Workforce for the Future

Are you an SME looking to develop a more inclusive team? Creative Workforce for the Future is a new pilot aimed at changing the face of the workforce in the creative industries by developing new approaches to skills and inclusion.

Digital Placemaking Prototypes

The Digital Placemaking R&D Production call asked for ideas which explore questions of belonging, safety, hope and power in public spaces. We are pleased to announce the funded prototype projects are POPMAP, Everything is Music and Stupid Cities.

Bristol+Bath Creative R+D is a new, £6.8 million collaboration to take the Bristol and Bath cluster to the next level by forging connections, sharing knowledge and creating new opportunities.

This first-of-a-kind collaboration between the region’s four universities - UWE Bristol, Bath Spa, the University of Bath and the University of Bristol - and digital creativity centre Watershed, intends to break down the doors, connecting the worlds of university research and creative business to collectively imagine and develop the future of the creative industries.

Take Part

There are many opportunities to take part in our programmes through fellowships, R+D funding, our events programme and much more.

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Pathfinders

Pathfinders are themed creative R+D projects designed to lead the Bristol + Bath cluster into the future, engage with emergent technologies and develop a diverse new talent base. There will be 5 Pathfinders from 2019 until 2023.

About our Pathfinders

Digital Placemaking

Focusing on emergent technologies, Digital Placemaking advances the use of digital technology to enhance and deepen our relationship to physical places.

Expanded Performance

Expanded Performance will use digital technology to offer people new ways to feel, respond to and participate in theatre, music and live performance.