Many of us already move seamlessly between digital and physical worlds in our day-to-day life. From Google Maps, to wearable technology, to playing Pokémon Go in the park; digital technology can make things easier, more enjoyable and more accessible. Of course, if it’s not done right, digital technology can also make things more confusing, alienating or overwhelming.
In the first Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Pathfinder, we’ll be bringing together new talent, university research and cutting edge industry and inclusion practice to address industry-wide challenges by making innovative work that finds its way to market and audiences.
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Digital Placemaking Prototype
City ID and Calvium – in collaboration with Bristol City Council – have been commissioned to explore the potential for an exciting new digital application that connects people with the events and activities that occur in Bristol’s streets, spaces and venues.
Digital Placemaking Prototype
boomsatsuma and Iconic Black Britons have been commissioned to showcase the intersections of culture, creativity and difference, co-constructing a collective AR experience of place. The digital placemaking project will make specific, location-based art and culture tangible, through AR animation of local art and spatialized audio.
Digital Placemaking Prototype
Bristol and Bath have long been a birthplace for new frontiers in music. Music is the living blueprint of a city through time. Everything Is Music will track, celebrate and explore the disparate and interlinked stories that have contributed to this unique musical fabric.
Digital Placemaking Prototype
Stupid Cities aims to improve the social equality of our cities by using placemaking tools to highlight how their current design creates disability.
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Tim is a mixed media creative working in dance, theatre, film and VR. Their work ranges from movement directing for theatre, producing live events and short films, and performing in international festivals IBT and Mayfest.
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I'm a producer interested in the crossover between creative practice, emerging technologies and inclusion. I nurture new networks, talent and inclusive practices through creative engagement projects with organisations like Trinity, Rising Arts Agency and Watershed.
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Grace Quantock is a non-executive director, writer and psychotherapeutic counsellor in advance training. Over the last decade, Grace has worked at the intersections of systemic dynamics in relationship, social justice, marginalised identities and creative arts.
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Stephen has worked on Smart Cities since the term was first invented. He passionately believes that Smart Cities should be creative, fun, inclusive and democratic places – as well as productive and efficient.
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Born and raised in South West London to first generation Ghanian immigrants. I very quickly learned to question the issues raised by the diasporic experience.
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Paul Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in Performance Studies at University of Bristol and directs the theatre company Uninvited Guests. Founded over 20 years ago, the company’s work tours nationally and internationally.
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Associate Professor - Lens Based Media, University of the West of England Shawn teaches into the BA and MA Photography, MA Research Practice, and supervises MRes and PhD students across a broad range of subject areas and topics, including creative activism, social history, archiving, photography and film, artists books.
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Jim is a disruptive digital entrepreneur working at the intersection of society and technology. As founder of OneSub he is attempting to disrupt the mainstream news media and bring us back from the brink of fake, over-sensationalised, populism.
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