DCRC - Digital Cultures Research Centre

Last Friday saw the culmination of a fantastically successful first sandbox programme for the REACT knowledge Exchange hub. The highliy anticipated and sold out Heritage Sandbox showcase event on the 28th of September gave an engaging overview of six innovative projects linking academics and creative industries partners. One of the projects was, of course, City Strata, led by DCRC researcher Charlotte Crofts.

The DCRC team are variously taking holiday and engaging in research activities away from desks and so we are offering an overview of some of our summertime activities in this post. Normal service for weekly blogging will return in September.

REACT is a collaboration between the University of the West of England, Watershed Arts Trust, (and its subsidiary iShed), and the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter. It reaches across two dynamic UK regions, and uniquely across three cultural areas and two languages and creative economies. Together we will generate a transformation in arts-driven economic and social impact by combining demand from the Creative Economy with Arts and Humanities research excellence. Through REACT we will pioneer a new model of dynamic creative interaction: Sandbox.

As the seasonal parties begin in earnest the DCRC team would like to wish everyone compliments of the season as we look forward to a productive 2012.

The University of the West of England (UWE) has been chosen to lead one of four prestigious Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

In July 2010 the DCRC held the first intensive five day course for producers of pervasive media projects, held at the Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol. The summer school was aimed at those who have some experience working in digital media and want to explore using context aware platforms to deliver a project.