With a brand new year comes the excitement of things to come, further collaborations and also the time to take stock of the achievements of the year just passed. In this post we'd like to share with you ten of our favourite moments from the last 12 months.

1. Door into the Dark wins at Tribeca - Anagram

Residents Amy Rose and May Abdalla of Anagram headed out to New York in the Spring to install their immersive documentary, Door Into the Dark, one of only five interactive installations showcased at the Tribeca Film Festival. The work was featured in the New York Times and chosen as the overall winner of the Storyscapes Award 2015. 

2. Cuisine + Colour – Sabrina Shirazi

In 2015, Sabrina shared her exquisitely messy banqueting experience Cuisine + Colour with fine diners at at-Bristol, Camp Bestival, and in our very own café bar, collaborating with Watershed chefs to create delicious and naturally colourful dishes. Guests were encouraged not just to eat, but to abandon conventional table manners and create personal culinary artworks, using the natural pigments in the food to make marks on the tablecloth and napkins. Follow Cuisine + Colour on Instagram to see what happened.

3. Playable Cities around the world  

Having received nearly 200 applications from 60 countries, Urbanimals by Polish architecture lab LAX was chosen as the 2015 Playable City Award winner. A pack of origami-like, projected kangaroos, dolphins, beetles and rabbits took up residence across Bristol. Meanwhile, 2013 winning project Hello Lamp Post by PAN Studio was reimagined for Austin, Tokyo and Singapore; 2014 winner Shadowing by Chomko & Rosier was installed in the Design Museum and on the streets of York; and if that weren't enough, we ran a series of Playable City labs in Japan, with plans for Lagos in Nigeria this year.

4. Time for Rights – Tim Kindberg 

To coincide with the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, and International Youth Day, resident Tim Kindberg invited young people from around the world to film themselves at exactly the same moment in time, explaining which human right matters most to them. 179 people from around the world took part in Time for Rights and you can hear from them all in Tim's beautiful 'Sphere of Rights' globe.

5. Tangible Memories, rethinking care homes – University of Bristol and Studio residents

Studio residents Heidi Hinder, Stand + Stare and Chloe Meineck worked with our colleagues at Bristol University, and with four residential care homes to consider how emerging technologies might be co-produced with older people. Their experiments ranged from musical embroidered electronics in blankets, to a therapeutic rocking chair and a StoryCreator app that helps those with dementia to capture and share their personal stories. 

6. Summer residencies

Normally a quiet time of year for us, this summer the Studio was buzzing with five incredible residency programmes running at the same time. Artist in Residence Ashley James Brown created subtle Sonic Seashells and wild wearable noise machines; Pete Bennett explored resonance as an interface with origami lanterns, slinkys and marshmallows; and our three New & Emerging Talent Residents, Roz Dean, Thomas Williams and Vitória Mauricio, explored public play, living instruments and bespoke bionic prosthetic arms respectively.

7. The Stick House – Raucous Collective 

Resident immersive theatre-makers Raucous staged their Angela Carter-inspired dark gothic fable, The Stick House, in the previously sealed up tunnels beneath Bristol Temple Meads station. The project was first developed as a collaborative Studio residency in 2011 and it was a pleasure for us to see the finished work delighting sell out audiences with its textured and nuanced blend of traditional theatre craft, vivid storytelling and creative technologies. 

8. Being There Lab

We are currently working on a research project called Being There: exploring trust, identity and robotics with partners Universities of Exeter, Bath, Oxford, Queen Mary's University of London and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. The researchers are working with a creative cohort of artists, designers and game makers, all of whom work with technology to add nuance and a disruptive element to the project. In June everyone came together for a four-day lab in our cafe/bar to build prototypes, run experiments and explore the ethics of humans and robots in public space.

9. Crane Dance Bristol – Laura Kriefman

On 3 Oct, 10,000 people flooded to Bristol's historic dockside to watch Studio resident and The Space/WIRED Creative Fellow Laura Kriefman create a spectacular meeting of music, light and synchronised cranes, dancing across the skyline at night. Collaborating with Studio residents Mat Bjerrgaard, Tim Kindberg and filmmaker Drew Cox, Laura used ground breaking cinematic techniques to create a short film of this incredible event. Watch out for Mass Crane Dance, coming to city skylines around the world in 2016 and beyond.

10. The Rooms Festival – REACT 

From a playground filled with battling robots and fabulous beasts, to an interactive light garden, haunted study and enchanted library. Last November, over 6000 people joined us for The Rooms Festival to get lost in a bio-activated maze, dance with Elvis and reimagine our digital future. It was a joy to be able to bring together the wide community of designers, makers, researchers, thinkers and adventurers from our partner universities and creative companies, and to share with the public the 53 projects developed over the last four years through REACT.