Event
Fri 20 Jan 2023 13:00-14:00 at Pervasive Media Studio Event Space & YouTube Live
Lunchtime Talk: Stirring Up New Ideas: Unreliable Mapmaking
In this talk, designer, educator and researcher Harriet Hand shares her research project Stirring Up New Ideas, which explores mapmaking as a tool for making sense of ourselves in relation to the complexity of our everyday.
Stirring Up New Ideas: Unreliable Mapmaking, Image by Harriet Hand
Stirring Up New Ideas is a current PhD project that explores the ways mapmaking might activate the kind of thinking that generates new possibilities, transforming young people’s sense of self and of the world around them. During March and April 2022, Harriet Hand worked with a group of local 17-year-olds in Watershed’s Studio 5 where speculative experiments in mapmaking filled the space sparking unanticipated shifts in young people’s personal and collective sense of their everyday. This talk will share something of what emerged in the space and reflect on the potential of the unreliableness of mapmaking.
Speaker - Harriet Hand
Harriet Hand is a designer, educator and researcher with a background in the field of wayfinding design. Working with Bristol-based City ID she has extensive experience working with cities to improve people’s experience of moving to, through and around diverse urban environments. An interest in creative thinking as an everyday practice drew her towards education and, through her practice as a secondary and higher education teacher, she has explored mapmaking techniques as generative productions of alternative dynamic and relational situations, rather than representations of a world that is fixed. Harriet is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and is in the final year of her PhD at the University of Bristol.
Join us online on YouTube Live, or in the building on Friday 20th January 2023 at 1pm for the talk and to take part in the Q and A discussion afterwards.
The Pervasive Media Studio is a partnership between the Watershed, University of the West of England and University of Bristol. The lunchtime talks are partly supported by MyWorld, a project led by the University of Bristol to support creative industries in the region. Watershed is supported by Arts Council England.
Address:
Watershed, 1 Canon's Rd, Bristol BS1 5TX
Directions:
The Lunchtime talks take place in the Pervasive Media Studio Event Space. To access the Studio, please go to the Main Watershed Box Office entrance and go upstairs to the Café Bar. Walk across the cafe bar, turn right and walk towards the double doors. Go through into the corridor and walk all the way down until you reach the Studio. A member of staff will sign you in, and check your ticket, if you have booked.
The Studio is wheelchair accessible, and the events space has a hearing loop. The last talk of every month is BSL interpreted.
For more information on accessing the studio take a look here.
*Please note this is a hybrid event and will be live streamed so please be aware you will be in the live broadcast and recording when watching in the Studio.
