We are passionate about the potential of technology to engage people and share knowledge. We use the power of collaboration to create transformative, disruptive and magical experiences.
Our programme of residencies, labs, events and funding schemes responds to emerging technologies, societal challenges and new partnerships.
The Pervasive Media Studio, our world-leading research lab, is home to a thriving community of artists, technologists, start ups, researchers and industry. Playable City puts people and play at the heart of future cities around the world.
A collection of projects which explore the creative potential of Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone.
Award-winning digital artists Squidsoup created an immersive large-scale light installation.
Italian photographer Carmine Mauro Daprile's two photographs feature fantastical characters set against startling visions of the future.
Bristol's street furniture is waking up - and it wants to talk to you.
Internationally renowned artist Luke Jerram's sculpture experiments with innovative digital technology and optical illusion.
Part exploration, part battle, part collaboration, part art experience...
A residency programme enabling makers to combine their crafts with cutting edge technologies.
Artistic commissions which explored how ‘openness’ in city development can improve the social, cultural, and economic lives of inhabitants.
What if cities were mapped by the people who lived there? Two workshops invited the Guimarães public to map their city.
Twelve artists and designers from East Asia and the UK explored how to use creative technology to make public spaces more fun.
In this event artist Jen Southern discusses 'Polyrhythmia', in conversation with Site Gallery director Laura Sillars.
Clare Reddington and participants of the development programme discuss the role of a creative producer and results of the summer school.
A development scheme which enables companies to research possibilities in digital media, create new ideas and deliver innovation to market.
A theatrical guided tour of the future of your city.
In a series of workshops members of the public and Watershed staff ‘painted with light’ to investigate the spaces in and around Watershed.
An eighteen month research and development project which resulted in the first ever iPhone app for the Tower of London.
Two residencies that enable artists to produce experimental works in a collaborative environment.
Two artists residencies that combined art, pervasive technologies, and culture, which focused on the development of digital practice.