Please note: This event took place in April 2019
Is the future really an unsalvageable hot mess? Or might immersive media experiences help us imagine a way forwards, towards a better future? For this Lunchtime Talk we are joined by Julia Scott-Stevenson to talk about her research into this question during her immersion fellowship with the South West Creative Technology Network, and present the manifesto she developed to help guide creators of VR, AR, MR and other immersive projects towards making ethical, inclusive and hopefully transformative work.
Julia Scott-Stevenson is a research fellow in interactive factual media with the Digital Cultures Research Centre at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She works with researchers and industry to explore the potential of interactive and immersive factual media, and produces the biennial i-Docs Symposium. Julia holds a PhD in i-docs and social impact, for which she created the i-doc Giving Time. She is also an immersion fellow on the South West Creative Technology Network, through which she is exploring whether immersive media technologies might offer ways of imagining a preferred future, and so help us identify a path to get there.