Adventure Playground
Our community worker Patrick Meleady and artist Steve Pool are leading a research project that explores social cohesion, with a focus on the artist in residence. Steve will support the work of the playground and blog about the experience of residency. Read more
Project › Taking Yourselves Seriously
Furd Football Circus Film
Film from the Football Circus event featuring freestyler Dan Magness, hosted by the Football and Connected Communities Project. Read more
Project › Football and Connected Communities
Utopia Fair: Imagining our Future film
The Utopia Fair was the centrepiece of ‘A Year of Imagination and Possibility’ a programme of events that celebrates the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s inspirational text, Utopia. A year of artists, designers, provocateurs and thinkers experimenting with ways we might live, make, work and play. Read more
Supporting Notes for film outputs – Pride Seder
Supporting notes which explain why the ‘Pride Seder’ filmed for this project is explicitly both Jewish and LGBTQI incorporating unique ritual elements which enable the celebration and commemoration of hybridised identities
Utopia Workshop at the Watershed
Last month, Connected Communities held a workshop as part of Utopia 2016 at the Watershed in Bristol
Creating Living Knowledge Workshop Photos
Last month, Connected Communities held a Creating Living Knowledge workshop at the RSA in London
Heritage Network Symposium Films
Films and presentations of all of the speakers at the event on 14th & 15th January 2016
Map Your Bristol
This is promotional video for Map Your Bristol – a participatory historical mapping website and app that enables users to explore, co-create historical content on the move. Read more
Project › Know Your Bristol On The Move
Where is Bristol’s History?
This animation responds to the question “Where is Bristol’s history?”. It sets traditional, expert-led approaches to historical research against co-produced and crowd-sourced history suggesting there is history in variety of everyday places waiting to be uncovered. Read more
Project › Know Your Bristol On The Move
Why Map History Together?
This animation responds to the question “Why map history together?”. It touches on how maps have been used historically as a technique of power and how maps can be repurposed by people to tell other stories about the world. Read more
Project › Know Your Bristol On The Move