We are pleased to announce three brilliant new Fellows in Residence, who are focusing on a wide range of research themes for the next six to ten months.
MyWorld Fellowships are varied in theme and offer paid experimentation and research time, with an emphasis on collaboration and interdisciplinary working – previous Fellows have found themselves immersed in virtual reality, accessibility design, digital fashion & textiles, community tech, tactile narratives, and immersive performance.
Fellows embed in an industry setting or research organisation and benefit from a temporary residency at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol which hosts a community of over 200 artists, creative companies, technologists and academics exploring experience design and creative technology.
“Unlike more traditional academic Fellowships there is more emphasis on sharing learning in different formats for a range of audiences and to be connected to the creative ecosystem in a practical way. We are thrilled to be able to support people and businesses in a responsive way and are looking forward to seeing people’s approaches to the research questions.”
The three Fellows
Aisha Ali is working with Old Printworks Arts, Radstock and Bath Spa University’s innovation hub ‘The Studio’ with a focus on community engagement and retention through music and sound technologies. They will be trialling new collaborative approaches by exploring the following research question: what is the impact of using creative sound and music-making methods to build long-lasting and sustainable community bridges between city centre and nearby rural creative hubs?
Jonah Ling is working with multi-award- winning, independent studio Aardman. Within this Fellowship he will be exploring ways in which people used to working within a stop motion context can best apply their craft to a digital production space. The Fellowship will be aligned to an ongoing research and development project, Virtual Production at Model Scale (VPaMS), being delivered within Aardman and supported by MyWorld.
Hannah Southfield is working with The Black Laboratory, her main focus will be on using remote puppetry to support communication for people who identify as Autistic or having Autism Spectrum Disorder/Condition; exploring how non-human characters may be used as interactive tools. Hannah will complement the team that are currently developing a prototype as part of their Collaborative Research & Development project supported by Digital Catapult. The CR&D projects are designed to address emerging challenges from across different areas of the Creative Industries.
These Fellowships are part of the MyWorld IDEAS programme, funded by UKRI.