Hopeful futures for creative innovation
(2023)
Report
All Outputs (42)
Hopeful futures for creative innovation: Lessons learnt (2023)
Report
South West Creative Technology Network - Final report (2021)
Report
This report highlights the research and development conducted during the 3-year South West Creative Technology Network. It outlines the creative knowledge exchange methodology developed through the programme and provides case studies of our Immersion... Read More about South West Creative Technology Network - Final report.
Critical ambience (2020)
Book Chapter
This chapter argues that ambient cultural practices can be reframed as critically focused experiences rather than either passive backgrounds or immersive entertainment. We argue that ambient literature can leave the reader or listener with a heighten... Read More about Critical ambience.
Ambient Literature: Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices (2020)
Book
This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary experiences. Building on the work done in the Ambient Literature Project (2016–2018), this books argues that these encount... Read More about Ambient Literature: Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices.
Creative producers international report (2020)
Report
Creative Producers International was an international talent development programme which worked with 15 Creative Producers based in cities across the globe. Their areas of expertise ranged from contemporary art, place making and community engagement... Read More about Creative producers international report.
Network for Creative Enterprise final report (2019)
Report
The Network for Creative Enterprise (NfCE) was established in October 2017 to help freelancers, artists, creative practitioners, start-up microbusinesses, and small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in the West of England LEP area make a sustainable livin... Read More about Network for Creative Enterprise final report.
View over Bristol - Tryers, creativity and a civic imaginary (2017)
Book Chapter
"Bristol has a culture of tryers, lots of people trying but because there’s a lack of accessibility. Because there is a lack of exits, naturally there are loads of people trying to get out… it is full of people who are trying because they can't grab... Read More about View over Bristol - Tryers, creativity and a civic imaginary.
Community media as social innovation: Transformation, agency and value (2017)
Book Chapter
This chapter discusses the Creative Citizens study, an extensive research project conducted by the authors from 2013 to 2015, looking into the community media practices of the South Blessed collective, a self-motivated network of young creatives appr... Read More about Community media as social innovation: Transformation, agency and value.
Who wants to become banal? The i-doc from experiment to industry (2017)
Book Chapter
In this chapter I want to mark a moment in the evolving story of the interactive documentary and to look at its developmental trajectory to date. I want to think about how we would establish a timeline for the development of the i-doc and further, ho... Read More about Who wants to become banal? The i-doc from experiment to industry.
REACT report 2012-2016 (2016)
Report
The REACT Report distils our learning from the past four years, and celebrates the great potential of collaboration between universities and the creative sector. It offers valuable insight to policymakers, stakeholders in the arts, Higher Education... Read More about REACT report 2012-2016.
Creative hubs: Understanding the new economy (2016)
Report
A dynamic ecosystem of creative spaces and communities has developed over the last 10 years. This report has been commissioned to better understand their diverse value, processes and motivations and in doing so, analyse how best to support and stimul... Read More about Creative hubs: Understanding the new economy.
Citizenship, value and digital culture (2016)
Book Chapter
The practice of cultural ecology: network connectivity in the creative economy (2016)
Journal Article
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. ABSTRACT: This paper reflects on approaches to collaborative knowledge exchange projects between UK universities and the creative economy. It develops a preliminary account of cultural e... Read More about The practice of cultural ecology: network connectivity in the creative economy.
From networks to complexity: Two case studies (2016)
Book Chapter
"From the noticeboard in the newsagent’s window to multi-layered online networks using social networking technologies, citizens are increasingly accessing networks of support that uncover previously invisible opportunities. Such networks exist online... Read More about From networks to complexity: Two case studies.
Ambient literature: Writing probability (2015)
Book Chapter
This chapter explores what might happen when data aspires to literary form. It presents examples of conventional psycho geographic literature of place to consider what kinds of literary forms are being remediated in pervasive media systems, before tu... Read More about Ambient literature: Writing probability.
Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study) (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This presentation shares the approach and findings of a case study that explored how ‘South Blessed’, an informal youth network of creative citizens in Bristol, generates value through its activities. South Blessed showcases a diversity of young, cre... Read More about Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study).
Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study) (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This session shares the work of the Creative Citizens strand that set out to investigate the impact of informal creative networks on their communities. In Bristol we worked with the network of young people that work around the very informal South Ble... Read More about Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study).
Documentary ecosystems: Collaboration and exploitation (2014)
Book Chapter
In this chapter I take the book’s title at face value and examine emergent documentary practices within the ecosystems of the digital media landscape. Thinking ecologically suggests we look at big pictures, at the whole assemblage of agents that cons... Read More about Documentary ecosystems: Collaboration and exploitation.
Cultural hybridity as the fuel of creative enterprises (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
South Blessed is a community media operation based in Bristol, specialising in Hip Hop music videos, activist documentary, and live topical debates streamed online. The editorial ethos of South Blessed is one of promotion of talent and opinion from... Read More about Cultural hybridity as the fuel of creative enterprises.