Jo Lansdowne
Pervasive Media Studio
Jo is Executive Producer of Pervasive Media Studio; supporting research activity, artist development and the resident community to make brilliant work.
Projects
More Than AI Sandbox
Sandbox is a tried-and-tested methodology to bring together teams of brilliant people to test new ideas with generosity and rigour in a three month R&D.Worked on
Murmurations: a mutual research exchange
Research is an earth making practice. It is about recognising that what happens to others relates to what happens to us.
Alternative Technologies: A Just Transition
This workshop series examines technologies and their past, present, and future role in climate justice (and breakdown) and explores what the alternatives could be, through a process of carefully facilitated design thinking
Grounding Technologies
Grounding Technologies is a pilot project exploring how creative technology can be used to support climate action.
Playable City Sandbox
Playable City Sandbox is a creative research and development programme providing facilitated space to transform an experimental idea to a working prototype over three months of rapid R+D.
MyWorld - Strength in Places
Watershed is excited to be a partner in MyWorld, a project led by the University of Bristol that will celebrate the West of England's reputation as an international trailblazer in creative technology and screen-based media.
Connecting Through Culture As We Age
Established in 2021, this three year UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge funded project is exploring how and why we take part in arts and culture as we get older.
Towards Equitable Futures (2020)
We live in capitalism, its power can often seem inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Ursula K. Le Guin, National Book Foundation Medal speech 2014 Towards Equitable…
Bristol+Bath Creative R+D
Bristol+Bath Creative R+D was a £6.8 million collaboration aimed at taking the Bristol and Bath cluster to the next level by forging connections, sharing knowledge and creating new opportunities.I lead Watershed's creative technology team; supporting research partnerships, artist development and our community of studio residents. I am also a Visiting Professor at UWE Bristol's Digital Cultures Research Centre.
I believe that technology describes the collection of ideas, tools, practices and systems which humans use to shape the world around us. Creative technology means that the way we do this is not inevitable, but can be re-imagined.
I am particularly interested in methodologies that bring people together in collaborative rather than competitive forms of production. Because knowledge, power, culture and commerce might be more evenly distributed if developed through caring and critically engaged processes and networks.
