It has been a very busy week in the Studio, with an influx of new people and new ideas. We have been getting acquainted with the participants of the Future Documentary Sandbox and their fascinating projects, as well as welcoming our new magicians in residence, Stuart and Kieron. We also have Nan Guo in the Studio, an Interactive Technologist visiting from China. All looks set for an autumn jam-packed with events.

To mark the official end of the Books & Print Sandbox, Clare, REACT, and the Sandbox participants headed to London to take part in Publish! New Adventures in Innovation. This was a Media Futures event exploring the future of publishing in a digital era. As well as many talks, there was also an exhibition of all the Books & Print Sandbox projects. To round it all off, REACT have also published an Industry Insight paper, written by Mark Leaver, who drew together knowledge from the all of the projects involved in the theme, offering five key insights for publishers, brands, writers, editors and anyone interested in the future of publishing.

Our resident musical modernisers, nu desine, took part in the Producer Sessions in Manchester this week, showcasing their pioneering musical instrument, the AlphaSphere. nu desine demonstrated the AlphaSphere alongside giants of the industry, Yamaha and Ableton, where they succeeded in turning heads with their innovative approach and the instrument and corresponding software’s original aesthetic. nu desine have now also launched a series of tutorial videos on their website for those of you who would like a closer look at what the AlphaSphere can do.

Goings on at the Studio have had a bit of a South American theme this week; whilst Verity has been in Brazil interviewing for our Recife: Playable City project, a group from our Future Documentary Sandbox has been in Peru making field recordings. The group’s project, Quipu, named after an Incan method of communication using knots, involves creating a living documentary that collects stories and oral histories of those people affected by Peru’s unconsented sterilisation policy in the 1990s. This is just one of the moving and fascinating projects coming from Future Documentary Sandbox. Learn more about all of our future documentary projects here.

Roughly 2700 people have passed through the doors of SquidSoup’s immersive light installation, Submergence. The installation consists of 8064 individual points of light, which fade and glow in different colours to create an ocean of light full of fluid shapes. The free exhibition will be open until 12 October, and so there is still plenty of time to see this vibrant spectacle. Artist Anthony Rowe will be giving a talk at UWE next week on Submergence and infestations of Mixed Reality Bugs...You can find out more here.

This week we’re also super excited to be joined in the Studio by our fantastic magicians in residence, Stuart Nolan and Kieron Kirkland. We have disrupted normal residency service to invite our magicians to explore creative ideas that blend technology, interaction design, magic and illusion. They will spend half of their time in the Studio with us and the other half at The Bristol Interaction and Graphics Group in the Computer Science Department of the University of Bristol. You can follow their progress on their blogs here, and join us for their Lunchtime Talk on 4 October.

Another inanimate addition to the studio, is a new Space Craft Preparation area, which marks the beginning of prototyping the manufacture of actual space crafts in the Studio itself. Exciting stuff. On the subject of the Pocket Spacecraft project, we are very excited to be hosting Nan Guo, an interactive technologist who is visiting the Studio from China. Nan will be working with Micheal on the interaction design for the Pocket Mission Control Application.

More international news: If you are visiting Denmark in the next few weeks you should be able to find posters for Calvium's latest soundwalk app. The Danish app, “Jeg Er Nørrebro” was launched in Nørrebro , Copenhagen, and tells stories from the different community groups who live in the area. In addition to the app, Calvium produced a web map so that non-smart phone users can also listen to the stories.

For those of you that missed Yvonne Buchheim's "The Automat" when it was being built and tested in the PM Studio by Tarim and Charles Farina - you can find it in The University of Bath Students' Union until October 4th. This interactive video installation records your facial expressions while you watch a song performance from Buchheim’s Song Archive Project.

As well as Future Documentaries Sandbox, which is currently creating so much excitement in the Studio, there is the upcoming Objects Sandbox, which will focus on ‘the internet of things’; innovative design of objects connected to the Internet. If you are interested in applying or want to find out more about the project, visit the Objects Sandbox microsite and sign up for an Ideas Lab here.

A kick-starter campaign has been launched in order to try to get a beautifully moving book of photographs taken by Detroit based photographer Patricia Lay-Dorsey, and designed by our resident, Victoria Forrest, printed and distributed worldwide. This unique publication, Falling into Place, is full of self-portraits showing the day-to-day life of someone with chronic progressive Multiple Sclerosis. The more money they raise, the more complimentary copies of the book they can distribute to places like schools and disability centers. To read about the book and to donate, click here.

Fancy joining us in the Studio? Well here’s your chance as the DCRC are on the lookout for a committed and dynamic researcher to take on the role of Research Fellow 0.5. The DCRC is the UWE hub for research into creative media applications in real world contexts, producing new knowledge about everyday life in today’s digital media ecology. If you’re interested in the role, you can find out more here.

Lastly we’re excited to announce that DCRC's Patrick Crogan has been awarded funding to lead one of the AHRC Videogames Research Networks. The Creative Territories Network will involve DCRC in a partnership with the Universities of Brighton and Utrecht, and the Bristol Games Hub. The network includes participants from 7 UK and 17 European Universities, NESTA, Creative England, UKIE, IGDA and Game City. The project will investigate practices, aesthetics and values in the emergent international indie games production sector, and is looking to both incubate collaborative research projects and produce a how to: Good Hubbing Guide for stakeholders -  with workshops in 2014 at the Bristol Games Hub, the Dutch Game Garden in Utrecht and DCRC/PM Studio. Keep posted for more news!