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
'House of Weaving Songs' by Dhaqan Collective - Playable City Bristol 2023. Image Credit: Luke O'Donovan
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Furaha Asani
Furaha is Watershed's Research Lead, supporting ongoing research across Pervasive Media Studio. Furaha is also a mental health advocate and writer.
Jo Lansdowne
Jo leads Watershed's Creative Technology team; supporting research activity, talent development and the resident community to deliver brilliant work.
Zoe Rasbash
Zoe is the Environmental Emergencies Action Researcher, co-producing an inclusive framework of climate action for the creative sector in the South West.
Lawottim Anywar
As Studio Coordinator, Lawottim manages and maintains information and schedules across the Research, Talent Development and Studio Community teams with a focus on supporting the studios residents.
Martin O'Leary
As Studio Community Lead, Martin supports our community of residents in their creative and technical work.
Erinma Ochu
A biologist by background, Erinma is interested in collective consciousness and how values, beliefs and social norms come to life in subcultures of technology and scientific practice.
Melissa Blackburn
Melissa works for UWE as Senior Producer on Bristol + Bath Creative R+D which aims to develop inclusive and climate-led approaches to creative work, and for Watershed on their Create Growth programme.
Amy Densley
Amy is the Research Centre Coordinator at UWE's Digital Cultures Research Centre, based in Pervasive Media Studio.
Allie Joy
Allie is a cross disciplined artist working with technology and film to produce installations involving moving image, sculpture and performance.
Emanuella Blake Morsi
With over a decade in the creative industry, Emma Blake Morsi is an award-winning Multi-Disciplinary Arts Producer, Non-Executive Director of Rising Arts Agency and former Bristol City Council’s Culture Board member. A prolific visual storyteller, she predominantly works across photography, words,…
Fozia Ismail
Fozia Ismail, scholar, cook and founder of Arawelo Eats, a platform for exploring politics, identity and colonialism through East African food.
Ifẹ G
Ifẹ G is an award-winning performer, writer, campaigner, producer, and educator based in Bristol. Their work focuses on unpacking what it means to be human in an innovative, chaotic, and engaging way.
Imwen Eke
Exploring play in adulthood, new technologies, game assisted mechanics and interaction to re-conceive what it means to have conversations using artistic, digital and cultural means.
Jackie Head
Jackie Head is an environmental campaigner who is passionate about the need to rapidly decarbonise our life styles to meet the challenges of climate change. She is part of the co-ordinating team of Bristol Airport Action Network (BAAN), Founding member of the Chew Valley CIC Sustainable Transport…
Kai Charles
Kai Charles is an activist, artist, and academic whose work focuses on the intersection of narrative and systemic injustice. Their poetry draws from their lived experience of grief, sexual violence, and non-binary dykehood to give a shape to wounds that are equally personal and universal.
Kexin Liu
Kexin Liu [Keshin Lee-o] is a Chinese multi-disciplinary artist and design researcher based in the UK.
Lucy Reeves Khan
Lucy is passionate about inclusion with the belief that everyone should be able to create in a way that works for them. Turning ordinary spaces into playful places, connecting people to themselves and their community.
Natalie Hyacinth
Dr Natalie Hyacinth is an academic and artist, creating and thinking about music at the intersection of sound, gender and Black life.
Olamiposi Ayorinde
Olamiposi is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on sustainability in fields that deal with accessibility and diversity in digital interaction and creative spaces, primarily through art and its intersection with STEM subjects. He is also deeply interested in human nature, philosophy, and…
Roxana Vilk
Roxana is a singer, performer and filmmaker. Her work often explores the themes of human rights, cultural identity and migration.
Beloved Sara Zaltash
Beloved Sara Zaltash is a British-Iranian artist, astrologer and musician, Fellow of the Schumacher Institute, Associate Fellow of St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, and Resident of Pervasive Media Studio and Studio Holder at the Jam Jar.
Tay Aziz
Tay is a Bristol-based community organiser, writer, speaker, filmmaker, science communicator and activist. With a passion for environmental justice, mental health, the arts and community engagement, they hope to use their multi-disciplinary skills to tell stories which envision and imagine…
Jasmine Thompson
Jasmine is a Bristol based illustrator & designer. Her practise embodies using illustration to capture stories of people and places. Amongst her recent work are murals for Royal Shakespeare Company and Pervasive Media Studio.
Jazlyn Pinckney
My work centres on implementing + evaluating thoughtful inclusion strategies to deliver impactful cultural and institutional change.Alternative Technologies: A Just Transition is a workshop series run by Watershed which builds on our Alternative Technologies workshop series, also integrating our previous work looking at a creative just transition and inclusion framework for change, towards the co-creation of a new climate justice innovation methodology. In this project we are focusing on a just transition and how we shift from an extractive economy to a to a life affirming, regenerative one, and we are approaching this work with enthusiasm and curiosity.
The series comprises of three workshops between February and April 2024 and is attended by participants including Pervasive Media Studio and UWE staff, and 15 participants from across Pervasive Media Studio residents, the Grounding Technologies cohort, and the Watershed-MyWorld STREAM micro-residencies.
This project is supported by Dr Erinma Ochu’s work on Community for Engaging Environments, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
