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
![An image of the inside of a domed house with curved iron ribs onto which white canvas has been tautly wrapped around. Traditional Somali prints on the outside of the canvas are also visible from the inside of the house. We can see the backs of two women facing various colourful small woven structures, and a potted plant, all hanging from the ribs of the house. A microphone and lights are also visible inside the space.](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block_main/public/project/image/2024-02-21/House%20of%20Weaving%20Songs%20-%20Playable%20City%20Bristol%20Jul23%20%C2%A9%20Luke%20O%27Donovan%20%28mid%20res%29%20%2827%20of%2036%29_1.jpg?itok=IgRqgdEZ)
'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 sits in a chair in a Bristol street](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/studio_resident/2017-03-09/Jo%20on%20chair%20copy%202.jpg?itok=Y1iUSNH0)
Jo Lansdowne
Jo is Executive Producer of Pervasive Media Studio; supporting research activity, artist development and the resident community to deliver brilliant work.![Woman with short curly blonde hair and black top against beige wall](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/264776277_271571618195501_6550909830556562827_n.jpg?itok=RF0NeQWv)
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 is a black male in his early 30s wearing an orange hat and laughing for some reason.](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2023-01-17/LKA.jpg?h=30063a04&itok=bGpHvkSh)
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.![Photo of Martin O'Leary](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/studio_resident/2019-07-09/martin-oleary.jpg?itok=td27L3ct)
Martin O'Leary
As Studio Community Lead, Martin supports our community of residents in their creative and technical work.![Person with a hat walking in woods, with left hand held up, as if sensing or searching](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2024-06-16/Erinma%20and%20the%20Oak.jpg?itok=9Iq9LWDw)
Erinma Ochu
A biologist and storyteller interested in collective consciousness. They are invested in experimenting with subcultures of technology & scientific practice to re-learn how to live equitably within planetary limits.![Black and white photo of dark haired white woman smiling with bookshelf behind her](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2023-03-04/MB%20Photo%202_0.jpg?h=8476fc71&itok=w2J811RG)
Melissa Blackburn
Melissa is an experienced Creative Producer who is interested how communities can co-create social change, and the part that art, creative work and creative technology can play in that change.![Portrait image of Amy Densley](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2024-03-30/Amy%20Densley.jpg?h=da7695f8&itok=WdbpOpav)
Amy Densley
Amy is the Research Centre Coordinator at UWE's Digital Cultures Research Centre, based in Pervasive Media Studio.![c/o of Allie Joy](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/studio_resident/2018-08-31/me.jpg?itok=Hj56fooW)
Allie Joy
Allie is a cross disciplined artist working with technology and film to produce installations involving moving image, sculpture and performance.![Portrait image of Emanuella Blake Morsi](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2024-03-30/Emmanuella-Blake-Morsi.png?h=697f2281&itok=F9Yd0BK8)
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,…![Image of Fozia](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/Photo%20from%20Foz_3.jpg?h=1efe3f48&itok=ClaEsdbr)
Fozia Ismail
Fozia Ismail, scholar, cook and founder of Arawelo Eats, a platform for exploring politics, identity and colonialism through East African food.![Imagine of a Black man on stage performing. The background has a green light and he is wearing a black shirt with a wide-brim hat speaking into a microphone](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2022-07-25/thumbnail_Image.jpg?h=03fb470d&itok=09K-X_cr)
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.![Portrait image of Jackie Head](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2024-03-30/Jackie%20Head.png?itok=jg7hFva7)
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…![Portrait image of Kai Charles](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2024-03-30/Kai%20Charles.jpg?h=19fc4237&itok=7Gaa34kY)
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.![East Asian female leaning against white wall under shades of trees](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2023-02-07/IMG_7608%205.jpg?itok=mBnWmOUW)
Kexin Liu
Kexin Liu [Keshin Lee-o] is a Chinese multi-disciplinary artist and design researcher based in the UK.![portrait of Lucy Reeves Khan](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2023-01-18/LRKphoto_0.jpg?itok=LukQEr3a)
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.![A black and white head and shoulders shot of Natalie who is looking at the camera smiling.](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2023-11-15/Natalie%20Hynacinth.jpg?itok=b4ALR57e)
Natalie Hyacinth
Dr Natalie Hyacinth is an academic and artist, creating and thinking about music at the intersection of sound, gender and Black life.![Portrait image of Olamiposi Ayorinde](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2024-03-30/Olamiposi%20Ayorinde.jpg?itok=mzKbTWQl)
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…![Picture of Roxana Vilk](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2022-03-11/BBC_RoxanaVilk6.jpg?itok=2EvN_jaA)
Roxana Vilk
Roxana is a singer, performer and filmmaker. Her work often explores the themes of human rights, cultural identity and migration.![Portrait image of Beloved Sara Zaltash](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2024-03-30/Beloved%20Sara%20Zaltash.jpg?itok=PTg09ILt)
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.![Portrait image of Tay Aziz](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/resident/image/2024-03-30/Tay%20Aziz.jpg?h=33e12682&itok=oVPm39a7)
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…![Portrait by Damien Hockey](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/studio_resident/2019-11-26/IMG_9584%28even_smaller%29.jpg?itok=81IdU5GB)
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.![A women of colour squinting into the sun. She is wearing a green camouflage coat, with a fur trim around her face and her yellow hair tie is visible through her curly afro.](/studio/sites/default/files/styles/pmstudio_feature_block/public/studio_resident/2019-05-31/jaz.jpg?itok=AiPlIsON)
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).
You can find our final report here: https://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/process/alternative-technologies-just-transition