After more than a year in the making, we are ready to embark on the first phase of Amplified Publishing, a four-month research deep dive into the future of content creation and delivery. Working in partnership with industry collaborators including BT, Future, Epic Games and BBC R&D.
To build on our explorations into liveness and togetherness and propel the work of the Pathfinder forwards, we're excited to introduce you to the four prototype teams who'll develop new experiences, products and processes to bring these conversations to life.
Issue 1 explores explores the fight for data rights, the future of performance post-pandemic, the mainstreaming of digital activism and queer perspectives on VR.
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.
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The Creative Ecologies Pathfinder is a new programme of research and experimentation for Bristol+Bath Creative R+D. Across 2021 and 2022, we’ll be exploring creativity as a networked, connected practice, not something that happens in isolation in studios, offices, or labs.
27.04.21 Amplified Publishing
22.04.21 Expanded Performance
by Tessa Ratuszynska
22.04.21 Expanded Performance
by Gill Simmons
