Jessica is Co-Director of Future Places Toolkit, alongside residents Paul Clarke and Duncan Speakman, and Jack Norris from Zubr. The company aims to engage everyone in shaping the future of their places and built environment through creative approaches and immersive technologies. We are currently working on: Future Places AR - a bespoke software and facilitated service that transforms planning engagement by using Augmented Reality to enable participants to see real time visualisations of their ideas in the place where the change is happening. And Future Soundings - a combined workshop and performance that uses immersive sound to help communities articulate their aspirations for a place. 

Both projects are rooted in a creative practice that began in 1998 when Jessica founded theatre company Uninvited Guests with Paul Clarke and Richard Dufty. During 28 years as collaborators, they have used performance and creative technologies to co-create events in which people meet one another, share stories, and ask questions about the world in imaginative ways. We first worked with the PM Studio in 2010, on the Theatre Sandbox project, Give Me Back My Broken Night, which was the beginning of the work we are doing with Future Places Toolkit today. Uninvited Guests have toured nationally and internationally, showing in the UK, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Slovenia, Austria and Australia.

Jessica also works as a freelance artist on various engagement projects. She has worked with the Bristol Old Vic Engagement Department, with Bristol company Local Learning, and with Bristol University’s School for Policy Studies.