DCRC - Digital Cultures Research Centre

Fifty guests crammed into the Pervasive Media Studio on Feb 29th for the launch of the Pervasive Media Cookbook. The Cookbook is a Hackspace meets Jamie Oliver mash-up where art and engineering mix to inspire entry level producers to get involved with the new world of location based media experiences. It promotes the emerging field of Pervasive Media by showing how 12 innovative experiments were made. 

Since relaunching this website at the beginning of September the DCRC team haven't stopped! Director Jon Dovey has been striking ground on the South West AHRC knowledge exchange hub REACT, Sam Kinsley has been conducting British Academy funded research fieldwork in California, and Constance Fleuriot has been working on the Pervasive Media Cookbook with Jess Linington as well as concluding research at Knowle West Media Centre for our Connected Communities project 'Keeping in Touch'.

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.

As we close another week of busy activity, DCRC marks the culmination of a stimulating and really productive Creative Producers Summer School. This second Summer School (the first being in 2010) ran here at the Pervasive Media Studio in partnership with iShed. The 2011 summer school was supported by Arts Council England.

Recent DCRC appointment Jess Linington is documenting the inspirational and informative discussions taking place as part of the Creative Producers Summer School, which is being conducted as a part of Professor Jonathan Dovey's Knowledge Transfer Fellowship concerning Pervasive Media in concert with iShed and with the support of Arts Council England.