Creative communities thrive when they are globally connected and able to benefit from the exchange of ideas, talent and opportunity. We believe society’s urgent challenges require a new kind of approach: Watershed connects audiences and artists across the world to think, make and share together.
Aquatic Pathways, Playable City Recife, photo by Beto Figueiroa, 2014
Aquatic Pathways was created during Recife: The Playable City a UK-Brazil cultural exchange supported by the British Council, Aquatic Pathways explored how the city's waterways could be playfully used for transport.
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Shadowing by Chomko & Rosier, Tokyo, photo by Kenichi Aikawa, 2016
Shadowing, Watershed’s second Playable City Award winner, was a set of streetlamps that record and play back shadows. Chomko & Rosier’s interactive piece has toured around the world, including Tokyo supported by British Council. Photo © British Council
Meet at the Square by Made Culture, Lagos, 2020
Meet at the Square by Made Culture took place in Lagos, Nigeria transforming a traditional African Village square into a hub for play, storytelling and art. It was conceived and produced by Malaika Toyo and was supported through Watershed’s Creative Producers International.
The Strangers at Honja Factory by Do One Im and Eunju Hitchcock-Yoo, photo by Jon Aitken, Seoul 2017
Do One Im’s Honja Factory explores digital technology and its mechanism to design various art products and devices that would elicit and boost inborn creativity of each individual. Eunju’s The Strangers seeks to expand boundaries of street performance by delivering a new interpretation and an approach to audiences and spaces. The pieces were supported as part of Playable City Seoul.
In collaboration with the Seoul Architecture Biennale and British Council, Watershed co-produced a mini Playable City festival inviting the public to explore their environment in new and exciting ways.