Featured Projects
BikeTAG Play Test: Colour Keepers
MoreA new street game for Bristol Temple Quarter: Enter the Zone, battle with light, and then escape on your bike!
REACT
MoreAn AHRC funded Creative Economy Hub and collaboration between the University of the West of England, Watershed and the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter. Between 2011 and 2014, this project will fund 7 new Sandbox programmes.
The Playable City Award
MoreHello Lamp Post by PAN, is the recipient of Bristol’s first ever Playable City Award, a new 30K commission to make something wonderful using creative technologies.
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Communicating Science Residency
MoreHelen White explores the upsurge in the availability of information on a global scale, seeking to give form to an aesthetically bereft mass of data, and exploring new approaches to science communication using creative technologies.
Give Me Back My Broken Night
MoreA theatrical guided tour, not of the historic past, but of the future of your city.
Craft + Technology Residencies 2013
MoreWatershed commissions makers Heidi Hinder, Chloe Meineck and Patrick Laing, to research new projects at the intersection of craft, technology and culture.
Studio Residencies 2012: Geiger-Müller Sound System
MoreWatershed supports Timothy X Atack and MrUnderwood collectively named Geiger-Müller Sound System, to develop a narrative soundscape played through small interactive devices secreted in the urban environment.
Studio Residencies 2012: Juneau Projects
MoreWatershed supports Juneau Projects to investigate the artistic possibilities of collaborating with artificially intelligent 'thinking' machines.
Craft + Technology Residencies: The Flying Skirt Light Shade
MoreAt first the Flying Skirt hangs limp from the ceiling, until is switched on, where upon it rotates and the skirt opens out, spinning like a dancer’s. Whilst spinning its shape can be manipulated by touch, but does it have potential to become a playful public experience?
Craft + Technology Residencies: Music Memory Box
MoreImagine a music box that invites dementia sufferers to hold familiar objects, which activate songs, and magically stir inaccessible memories. Chloe Meineck’s Music Memory Box does just that, but now imagine that it could do even more.
Craft + Technology Residencies: Money No Object
MoreThe object of money is fast becoming immaterial as digital representations of currency replace coins, cash and credit cards. Yet trading relies on trust. So how do we trust what we cannot tangibly experience, what we can no longer touch, see, smell or hear?
Open City: Guimarães
MoreFrom open balloon mapping with James Bridle, to Design Fiction on the streets of a medieval city, iShed is curating a series of interventions to explore Openness in city development.
The Playable City Sprint
MoreWatershed and the British Council brought together twelve artists and designers from across East Asia and the UK, to create new work on the theme of The Playable City.
The Sandbox Programme
MoreIn 2008, iShed launched Media Sandbox as a way to support small, agile producers to develop early stage ideas. The success of this scheme, with its emphasis on talent and risk meant it was followed in 2010 by Theatre Sandbox and more recently by REACT Sandboxes.
The Pervasive Media Studio
MoreA city-centre research studio which brings together artists, technologists and academics to explore the future of mobile and wireless media.
Mail, Maps and Motion
MorePerformers Adrian Utley, Joanie Lemercier, Charles Hazlewood, Will Gregory, John Parish, Scott Hendy and Inkie took part in Mail, Maps and Motion, a one-off music and visual spectacular, produced by Watershed on 17 August 2012.
Embedded Artists Residency
MoreA residency supporting development of a new sound and technology project by artist Jen Southern, delivered in collaboration with Sound and Music.
Media Sandbox
MoreAn annual commissioning scheme which supports digital media companies to explore pioneering ideas using new technologies.
Sky Orchestra
MoreA project by artist Luke Jerram with composition from Dan Jones which delivers music to sleeping people from out of the sky. Hot air balloons take off at dawn and dusk with speakers attached, creating a massive audio landscape.
Theatre Sandbox
MoreA commissioning scheme, first run in 2010, which supports theatre companies to develop new work using digital technologies.
Micro-residency: Stand + Stare Collective
MoreA Micro-residency supporting development of Theatre Jukebox, a new project by Stand + Stare Collective.
PIRL (Played In Real Life)
MoreMake your own smart phone app: user-friendly tools for the cultural sector, developed with technology start-up Calvium.
South West Artists Residencies
MoreSupport for research and development of new ideas using creative technologies.
Creative Producers
MoreSupporting the development of ten creative producers, the 2011 iShed programme included a trip to SXSW Festival and a Producers' Summer School.
Projecting Holograms
MorePrototype software by world-class projection artists AntiVJ to create innovative 3D experiences.
Light Up Bristol
MoreIn December 2007 designers, artists and filmmakers magically transformed Bristol with a spectacular light and moving image show.
Creative collaborations, new ideas, emerging technologies and talent development
