Resources
Bristol City Council summer workshops
Regeneration of Filwood Broadway, South Bristol 2024-2025
Caerphilly Town 2035 – Festival of Ideas
Future Soundings at Futures Now and Embodied Research Symposium
Pineapple Award Finalists
Immersive Acts Symposium
Workshops for Caerphilly Town 2035
Participatory Futuring
Regeneration of Filwood Broadway, South Bristol 2024-2025
Following a two-stage open tender run by Bristol City Council, Future Places Toolkit was part of a winning multi-disciplinary team lead by Architecture 00, including architect George Lovesmith and Studio Mothership.
Caerphilly Town 2035 – Festival of Ideas
As part of the Caerphilly Town 2035 project we were asked to deliver Future Places AR, engaging residents in imagining what they would like to see in 2035.
Bristol City Council summer workshops
This summer we’ve been busy delivering Future Places AR workshops with Bristol City Council, supporting local imagination to help shape the future of south Bristol.
Future Soundings at Futures Now and Embodied Research Symposium
This summer we ran Future Soundings at Futures Now, a festival of futures in the making by the Centre for Sociodigital Futures, and at the Brigstow Institute’s annual Embodied Research Symposium exploring physical and sensory experiences in creative practice and academic research.
Pineapple Award Finalists
Alongside Stride Treglown and Cowshed, we were selected as finalists in the engagement category, for work on the Caerphilly Town 2035 – Festival of Ideas project.
Workshops for Caerphilly Town 2035
In September we worked with urban designers and architects Stride Treglown, Cowshed Communication, and Caerphilly County Borough Council to engage people creatively with the Caerphilly Town 2035 Placemaking Plan, at the inaugural Festival of Ideas.
Immersive Acts Symposium
Co-directors Duncan Speakman and Paul Clarke presented our work on Future River Soundings at the Royal College of Art for the Immersive Acts Symposium.
Participatory Futuring
Future Places AR is a development of a theatre performance called Millennium Square. This academic article by co-director Paul Clarke explores how site specific science fiction storytelling can help scaffold imagination.