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.
MyWorld
Made by
Vanessa Bellaar Spruijt
Vanessa Bellaar Spruijt is currently a producer on the MyWorld programme, a five year programme which will showcase the latest advances in digital production and research.
Jo Lansdowne
Jo leads Watershed's Creative Technology team; supporting research activity, talent development and the resident community to deliver brilliant work.
Martin O'Leary
As Studio Community Lead, Martin supports our community of residents in their creative and technical work.
Furaha Asani
Furaha is Watershed's Research Lead, supporting ongoing research across Pervasive Media Studio. Furaha is also a mental health advocate and writer.
Emma Boulton
Watershed producer supporting collaborative R&D programmes including Sandbox and Playable City.
Danielle Rose
Danielle is part of Watershed's team working on MyWorld. She supports R&D through providing opportunities to test prototypes and get feedback on work-in-progress, whilst developing new networks and audiences.
Joseph Wilk
Joseph is one of Watershed's Fellows in Residence as part of the MyWorld Ideas programme. He will spend ten months in residence at Ultraleap creating guidance and tooling for game developers through prototyping.
Ben Samuels
Ben is our first Watershed Fellow in Residence as part of the MyWorld Ideas programme. He will spend seven months in residence at Bristol Old Vic developing approaches to digital presentation of theatrical performance.
Clarice Hilton
Clarice is one of Watershed's Fellows in Residence as part of MyWorld Ideas programme. She will spend six months with UWE, MLF and All Seeing Eye on interaction experiences in location-based VR with a focus on Disability.
Shakara Thompson
Shakara is one of Watershed's Fellows in Residence as part of MyWorld Ideas programme. They will spend six months at Celestial exploring the world of drone light shows and AI in the creative process.
Harry Willmott
Harry is one of Watershed's Fellows in Residence as part of MyWorld Ideas programme. He will spend six months at Zero Point Motion exploring how to improve immersion in VR enriched with high-resolution finger tracking.
Helen Brown
Helen is one of Watershed's Fellows in Residence as part of MyWorld Ideas programme. She will spend ten months at Condense with the Understanding Audiences Research Group evaluating different virtual venue performing styles.
Ellie Chadwick
Ellie is a Studio Resident with her experimental theatre company Sleight of Hand, and a MyWorld Ideas Fellow. She'll spend 6 months with Condense exploring performer stage presence in virtual world The Blueprint.
Amy Rose
Amy makes narrative experiences and founded Anagram in 2013 - an award-winning studio, who make immersive experiences that bring together innovative digital interaction and stories told from real life.
Holly Thomas
Holly is a UK based dance artist, choreographer and performer with a specialism in inclusive choreography and embodied audio-description for dance.
Chloe Meineck
Chloe Meineck is a queer artist, co-designer and facilitator focused on understanding peoples lives, investigating themes of care, repair, reconnection and identity. Chloe is a queer community builder and activist.
David Matunda
Web Developer, Digital Artist, Writer as well as a MyWorld's Fellow in residence at Knowle West Media Centre focusing on community tech and participation.
Frazer.Meakin
Director (Theatre & Film), Movement Director and Educator. MyWorld Fellow: Making The World Different. "what skills and opportunities do young people need for a career in creative technologies.'MyWorld fuelling the West of England's creative technology sector
Over the next four years Watershed is part of a programme called MyWorld which will showcase pioneering new digital formats and technologies to create innovative experiences across fiction, documentary, games, and live performance.
With a unique set of creative partners and research collaborators MyWorld will present a set of trailblazing augmented, experimental and immersive experiences. Technologies taking centre stage in MyWorld include the latest developments in film and television visual and audio production; volumetric capture, mixed reality, motion capture, virtual production, digital doubles, remote robotics, avatar creation… and much more.
Watershed Open Calls, Test Space and Audience Engagement
At Watershed, you will be able to experience work emerging from MyWorld in accessible, fun ways which might range from augmented and virtual reality to motion capture, remote robotics, avatar creation and so much more. You might come across a new prototype being tested in the Café & Bar, or join a conversation about early-stage research and development, or take part in an immersive bit of programming.
We will also be running a series of Funded Open Calls for small companies, freelancers and sole traders that will showcase and amplify MyWorld work and give more people the chance to experiment with new technologies, create meaningful experiences for audiences, ask questions and test out high-risk ideas.
The opportunities will include:
- Fellowships in Residence and Micro residencies
- Sandbox Commissions
- Human adventures in creative technology: Container Magazine
- R&D you can see
All the ways you can engage with MyWorld will be posted on the Watershed Opportunities page from late Spring/early Summer onwards.
MyWorld aim
Led by the University of Bristol, the aim of MyWorld is to position the South West of the UK as an international trailblazer in screen-based media, forge dynamic collaborations to progress technological innovation, deliver creative excellence, establish and operate state of the art facilities, offer skills training and drive inward investment, raising the region’s profile on the global stage.
Visit the MyWorld website for more information on the project.
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MyWorld is funded through UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) ‘Strength in Places fund’.
Main Delivery partners: University of Bristol, University of the West of England, University of Bath, Bath Spa University, Watershed, Digital Catapult, Aardman Animations, Lux Aeterna, Esprit Film and Television, Bristol Old Vic and Opposable Games.
Studio themes
- Interactive Documentary
- Play
- Location and Movement
- Connected Objects
- Performance and Music
- Storytelling
- Cities
- University Research
- Robotics
- Moving Image
- Social Tech
