DIGITAL PLACEMAKING AS ACTIVISM | Bristol+Bath Creative R+D | Watershed
Channel: Watershed
Date: 2020-09-21

Reframing Digital Placemaking - A conversation between the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Fellows and Programme Director, Professor Jon Dovey, reflecting on the ideas,  currents and key themes to emerge from their work exploring the relationship between physical and digital places. Illustrations by Gary Embury. 4/6

What does it mean to think of digital infrastructure as public space?  How do we hack online spaces as sites for activism?  And how do we make space in digital layers for care and for rest? 4/6

Find out more about the Digital Placemaking programme: https://bristolbathcreative.org/pathfinders/digital-placemaking

Gary Embury: http://www.embury.co.uk

References mentioned by the Digital Placemaking Fellows:

Black Power Naps: https://blackpowernaps.black

Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the future possibility of living well episode of e-flux:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/15xETaae26eWMUsr5Nn2ZN?si=SGuxWLkAQOSjPCygYVb97w


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