Jo Lansdowne
Pervasive Media Studio
Jo leads Watershed's Creative Technology team; supporting research activity, talent development and the resident community to deliver brilliant work.
Projects
More Than AI Sandbox
Sandbox is a tried-and-tested methodology to bring together teams of brilliant people to test new ideas with generosity and rigour in a three month R&D.Worked on
Alternative Technologies: A Just Transition
This workshop series examines technologies and their past, present, and future role in climate justice (and breakdown) and explores what the alternatives could be, through a process of carefully facilitated design thinking
Grounding Technologies
Grounding Technologies is a pilot project exploring how creative technology can be used to support climate action.
Playable City Sandbox
Playable City Sandbox is a creative research and development programme providing facilitated space to transform an experimental idea to a working prototype over three months of rapid R+D.
MyWorld - Strength in Places
Watershed is excited to be a partner in MyWorld, a project led by the University of Bristol that will celebrate the West of England's reputation as an international trailblazer in creative technology and screen-based media.
Connecting Through Culture As We Age
Established in 2021, this three year UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge funded project is exploring how and why we take part in arts and culture as we get older.
Towards Equitable Futures (2020)
We live in capitalism, its power can often seem inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Ursula K. Le Guin, National Book Foundation Medal speech 2014 Towards Equitable…
Bristol+Bath Creative R+D
Bristol+Bath Creative R+D was a £6.8 million collaboration aimed at taking the Bristol and Bath cluster to the next level by forging connections, sharing knowledge and creating new opportunities.I lead the Creative Technology team; supporting research partnerships, individual talent development and our community of studio residents.
I am particularly interested in methodologies that bring people of diverse backgrounds together in collaborative rather than competitive modes of production. I believe that knowledge, technology, culture and commerce might be more evenly distributed if developed through inclusive, caring and critically engaged processes and networks.
