The region around Bristol and Bath is home to the biggest set of silicon designers anywhere in the world outside silicon valley. Combined with the creative talents based in Bristol it is unsurprising that the World Economic Forum placed Bristol in the top one hundred creative environments around the world.

In this talk, Clare Reddington, Director of iShed and the Pervasive Media Studio, talks about the range of cutting edge projects produced in Bristol and internationally which merge digital media and technology with physical experiences to transform our lives and the space around us.

iShed is Watershed’s Community Interest Company that develops talent and produces collaborative research projects, and the Pervasive Media Studio is Watershed’s multi-disciplinary lab which supports a community of artists, creative companies, technologists, and academics to explore and produce pervasive media content, applications and services.

Clare is a member of the advisory boards of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Advisory Board, Theatre Bristol, Capsule and Hide&Seek. She was a finalist in the British Council's UK Young Interactive Entrepreneur 2009 and has featured in Wired magazine's 100 people who shape the Wired world in 2010 and 2011.

Clare was joined by Paul Gough, Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of the West of England and a Bristol Festival of Ideas committee member.

The event took place as part of the Bristol Festival of Ideas Bristol Genius series, which focuses on the people and organisations working in Bristol on breakthrough ideas that have the potential to change how we think, work, live, eat, and play.

A Festival of Ideas event.

Related Links:
Pervasive Media Studio
iShed

Posted on Sun 22 May 2011.

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