We have teamed up with the friendly folk at Julie’s Bicycle to invite you to an evening of playful enquiry about data and environmental sustainability in the creative industries.

Since 2007 Julie’s Bicycle have been tackling the crucial issue of how the arts dealwith the challenges of climate change. Now ahead of Bristol’s year as European Green Capital, Watershed is partnering with them to discover how, with the intelligent use of technology, we enable processes that respond to the needs of the planet.

At the core of this is an interest in how we could connect ourselves to and better understand important data. As the world gets more connected, we are surrounded by data devices, networks and infrastructure. We collect data on everything from energy consumption to weather predictions but this data rarely feels accessible or tangible. If we could understand and interpret this data would we act differently?

In order to explore this question we are holding a Sustaining Creativity Data Lab with Julie’s Bicycle, which will bring together artists, technologists, data analysts and designers to look at how environmental data might be visualised and made tangible in creative ways. Together we will look at how to increase engagement and data literacy, and inspire long-term behavior change through the creative industries.

If you would like to join us for a conversation and showcase of prototypes and new ideas for sustainable futures, please register for a free ticket with Eventbrite.

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