Join the Digital Placemaking Fellows as they share ideas, insights and key themes to emerge from a year of deep thinking about possible future directions for Digital Placemaking. Explore live and recorded online content including talks, podcasts, illustrations and social media takeovers.
We live in a world where everyone with access to technology can publish. From YouTubers to Instagram influencers, from gamers watching each other play online to writers self-publishing, content is everywhere. The Covid-19 crisis has delivered rapid change and the proliferation of new kinds of content. Our third pathfinder, Amplified Publishing, will build on the cluster's strength in publishing innovation and enable us to ask big questions: What does 'publishing' mean in the 21st Century?
The Expanded Performance Pathfinder will explore the concept of liveness and togetherness in the context of current innovations in technology. Looking across the theatre and live music sectors, our research and development will consider how shows are made and marketed to how they are captured and distributed. We are delighted to announce our Expanded Performance cohort of Fellows and Industry Partners who each bring unique research questions, and will be working together to explore the challenges and opportunities around the theme for the next 11 months.
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 NARratives, 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.
There are many opportunities to take part in our programmes through fellowships, R+D funding, our events programme and much more.
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.
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Focusing on emergent technologies, Digital Placemaking advances the use of digital technology to enhance and deepen our relationship to physical places.
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Expanded Performance explores the concept of liveness and togetherness in the context of current innovations in technology across the cluster’s twin strengths of theatre and live music.
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Building on the cluster's strength in publishing innovation, Amplified Publishing explores future models of content creation, discovery and distribution.