FutureStory visited Bristol in late 2009 to discover how a city build on trade and engineering has developed into a key player in the green economy, academia and the creative industries. Featured amongst other Bristol-based organisations were Aardman Animations, the BBC’s Natural History Unit and the Pervasive Media Studio where FutureStory discussed Bristol’s role in the digital age with Studio Director Clare Reddington.

“Bristol is unusual in that it has the largest concentration of silicon chip companies outside of Silicon Valley in the US. So there are a lot of research labs here,” Clare explains, “the Pervasive Media Studio is interesting because we don’t sit within a university campus or a corporate research lab. We sit at the heart of the city – and we’ve got our doors open, encouraging as many people as possible to join the conversation.”

The article stresses the ethos of open innovation at the Studio that mirrors Bristol’s collaborative spirit. The Studio offers research and development space, and a wide variety of workshops, seminars and public events. People come to share knowledge and work on projects for different amounts of time, on short or long term projects. And every Friday we have the doors open to absolutely anybody who wants to come and work here.

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