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.
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 thinkingGrounding Technologies
Grounding Technologies is a pilot project exploring how creative technology can be used to support climate action.From Sept 2024 I will be working as CEO for Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust, supporting the community of Lockleaze to create the change they want to see. As current Co-Chair of charity Artspace Lifespace I'm a vocal advocate for community-led creative and cultural spaces.
Previously, I was Senior Producer at UWE within the Digital Cultures Research Centre, working across a number of projects including Bristol+Bath Creative R+D; Grounding Technologies which investigated how creative technology might support climate action in community projects; Alternative Technologies: A Just Transition thinking about just, regenerative futures. I also worked on Create Growth for Watershed and WECA.