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Reflections on partnership working: Case Study of BBC partnership with UWE photography programme (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S., Smart, D., Connolly, S., Weston, P., & McGinn, C. (2012, December). Reflections on partnership working: Case Study of BBC partnership with UWE photography programme. Paper presented at Engage 2012 - National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement Conference, Bristol Hotel

This presentation discussed the partnership that was built between BBC Bristol and the UWE photography programme, which saw students working with BBC staff on the 'More Than Words' festival, producing imagery across the city. Reflections on the succ... Read More about Reflections on partnership working: Case Study of BBC partnership with UWE photography programme.

False starts (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Buchheim, Y. False starts. 2 November 2012 - 14 December 2012. (Unpublished)

The solo exhibition titled False Starts is the first output from Yvonne Buchheim’s practice based research activity facilitated through an artist-in-residence programme by the Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts (ICIA) at the Psychology... Read More about False starts.

Adinkra Poster Series (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Sobers, S., & Mitchell, R. (2012). Adinkra Poster Series. 1 November 2012 - 1 November 2012. (Unpublished)

These poster images are work in progress of a series of 54. They explore the Adinkra symbols which originate from Ghana, dating back to the pre-historic era. The symbols are still widely used by Ghanaians to the present day, as well as by the wider A... Read More about Adinkra Poster Series.

Real and Imagined Lives (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Sobers, S. (2012). Real and Imagined Lives. 20 October 2012 - 6 January 2013. (Unpublished)

Real and Imagined Lives explores identity through works drawn from the National Portrait Gallery Collection. Fictional character sketches written by well known authors accompany Tudor & Jacobean paintings of unknown sitters, while writers offer an a... Read More about Real and Imagined Lives.

Words Inside (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Sobers, S. (2012). Words Inside. 1 October 2012 - 1 January 2013. (Unpublished)

Solo photography exhibition - This photography series is interested in marginalia – notes in the margins of books, and the other markings they carry that were not there when new. The photographs on display are a combination of my own books, and ones... Read More about Words Inside.

The Cinemapping App (prototype) (2012)
Physical Artefact
Crofts, C. The Cinemapping App (prototype)

The Cinemapping App maps Bristol's screen heritage so you can experience local cinema history in the places where it actually happened, from Cary Grant's memories of the Clare St Picture House to the unsolved murder of Odeon manager Robert Parrington... Read More about The Cinemapping App (prototype).

Cultural value networks summary report (2012)
Report
Bachmann, G., Dovey, J., Monaco, J., & Sharpe, B. (2012). Cultural value networks summary report

A summary of the AHRC Connected Communities project conducted by the DCRC concerning cultural value networks

Cultural value networks research findings (2012)
Report
Bachmann, G., Dovey, J., Monaco, J., & Sharpe, B. (2012). Cultural value networks research findings

An extended report on the methods and findings of the DCRC's AHRC Connected Communities project concerning cultural value networks

Documentary made sustainable: The Bristol bike project, from grassroots workshop to globalised audience (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Oldham, A. (2012, September). Documentary made sustainable: The Bristol bike project, from grassroots workshop to globalised audience. Paper presented at Documentary & the Environment, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK

The Worldometers website (http://www.worldometers.info/) is based on a live / real time feed of a range of global statistics : its shocking evidence suggests that we are approaching a perfect storm of peak oil, climate change and a rapidly increasing... Read More about Documentary made sustainable: The Bristol bike project, from grassroots workshop to globalised audience.

Being T/here: Locative experience design and the need for "Armchair Mode" (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2012, September). Being T/here: Locative experience design and the need for "Armchair Mode". Presented at Environmental Utterance; a Performative Conference; Making There Here, University College Falmouth, Falmouth, UK

The presentation will focus on the importance of designing for the location whilst acknowledging that not all users will choose / be able to physically be there. How can we design both for both here and there? What is the added value of being there... Read More about Being T/here: Locative experience design and the need for "Armchair Mode".

The production of space in metropolitan regions: A Lefebvrian analysis of governance and spatial change (2012)
Journal Article
Buser, M. (2012). The production of space in metropolitan regions: A Lefebvrian analysis of governance and spatial change. Planning Theory, 11(3), 279-298. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095212439693

The language of relational geography now permeates the field and literature of planning, with phrases such as 'fuzzy boundaries' and 'flows and networks' being commonly used to express the complexity of socio-economic and governance relations. Howeve... Read More about The production of space in metropolitan regions: A Lefebvrian analysis of governance and spatial change.

'Stuff it': Respectability and the voice of resistance in letter to brezhnev (2012)
Journal Article
Dolan, J. (2012). 'Stuff it': Respectability and the voice of resistance in letter to brezhnev. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 9(2), 247-261. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2012.0082

Exploring Letter to Brezhnev through concepts of respectability as feminine cultural capital this article suggests that the film’s affective impulse stems from its representation of a female, working class experience under Thatcherism. This experienc... Read More about 'Stuff it': Respectability and the voice of resistance in letter to brezhnev.

Unnatural natural history (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Bright, N. Unnatural natural history. 14 July 2012 - 23 September 2012. (Unpublished)

Paying attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy (2012)
Journal Article
Crogan, P., & Kinsley, S. (2012). Paying attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy

This is the introduction to the special issue of Culture Machine co-edited by the authors and drawn from the 2010 conference of the same name co-convened by the Digital Cultures Research Centre for the European Science Foundaiton (see www.payingatten... Read More about Paying attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy.

Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2012, June). Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage. Paper presented at Postdigital Encounters: Creativity and Improvisation. Journal of Media Practice Symposium, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK

With the affordances of locative media, the heritage industry is rapidly embracing the postdigital era, with iPhone Applications for English Heritage, the National Trust and UNESCO World Heritage sites. At the same time, nostalgia for the past (and... Read More about Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage.

Archiving digital narrative: Some issues (2012)
Journal Article
Abba, T. (2012). Archiving digital narrative: Some issues. Convergence, 18(2), 121-125. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856511433687

The complexities of archiving digital content, particularly those story forms reliant on multiple platforms, highlights technical, cultural and curatorial issues that remain difficult to reconcile coherently. Seeking to frame the issues within this s... Read More about Archiving digital narrative: Some issues.

Identity in community media (negotiating marginal positions within photographic practices) (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2012, April). Identity in community media (negotiating marginal positions within photographic practices). Paper presented at Rendering the Real: Negotiating marginal positions within photographic practices, 198 Contemporary Gallery, London

Invited to discuss how notions of identity, self, and place feature for participants in community media projects, where those themes are related to the project contexts.

The curzon memories app (2012)
Physical Artefact
Crofts, C. The curzon memories app

The project piloted locative technologies to develop a smartphone application that provides a digital tour of the interior and exterior of the Curzon Community Cinema in Clevedon using GPS and QR Codes respectively to trigger dramatisations and oral... Read More about The curzon memories app.