We are interested in how inspiration is sparked and new ideas begin so we created a space to share some of that with you. We also want to share inspiring content from others, so do contact us if you have something you feel is worth sharing on the mercurial nature of ideas and creativity at: rachel@partexchangeco.org.uk
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Dark City compiled VI resources and Activites
Contents Support Groups + Organisations Tools and Resources Social and Activity Groups Arts and Cultural Venues + Organisations Intro: Prepared by PECo Theatre as part of the Dark City project, this document provides a… Read more: Dark City compiled VI resources and Activites -
Dark City Q&A – Holly and Rachel
At a visual impairment accessibility lecture, attendees find events interrupted by a voice that hijacks the airwaves of the audio describe headphones they are wearing, calling them to action. The Dark City is in peril. Whole areas are… Read more: Dark City Q&A – Holly and Rachel -
Sikka Magnun – Video Installation Inspiration
Thom Buttery audio visual artist on JUlian Trust Night Shelter project recommends Sikka Magnum by Daniel Canogar; ‘I really like the process of digital recycling, re-appropriating your own or others material to give it a new meaning or context,… Read more: Sikka Magnun – Video Installation Inspiration -
John Hull on Blindness and Memory
This fascinating and articulate talk is a unique insight into one man’s experience of his blindness and how his visual memories were slowly replaced by ‘three dimensional, non-sighted, whole body images’ and the impact this had on the way he experiences the… Read more: John Hull on Blindness and Memory -
We went to see this powerful and beautifully put together documentary about the journey of one man into blindness as part of preparation for our upcoming RNIB project.[part of our Sentient City programme] The use of sound and image was… Read more: Notes on Blindness -
Alessandro Acquisiti on why privacy matters
Thought provoking talk on personal data, privacy and the internet. Source material for our Future Tourist ideas. -
photo of forest around Dro by Krista Burane ‘This kind of engagement with landscape is an engagement with deeper notions of time than those we are conventionally accustomed to. Our guides tell us about the way in which local… Read more: More Earthed inspirations -
More inspirations for our RNIB project [Sentient City], this time from composer, producer, musician Joe Acheson, about the incredible work of a school for the visually impaired in Finland that teaches children how to use sound as a means to explore their… Read more: Sound of Snow and Ice -
Snowdon, surveillance and society
Hard to believe Edward Snowdon has been in exile from the ‘Free World’ for three years. Here he asks, in a calm and measured way, what kind of society do we want to live in and why Obama should pardon him. Useful… Read more: Snowdon, surveillance and society -
Bristol Is Making a Smart City for Actual Humans
We’re working on a project that’s looking at the perils and promise of pervasive technology, This article from Wired magazine shows how Bristol’s a forerunner on the promise front. -
The Strange World of Urban Exploration
We’re developing our Sentient City project, celebrating and revealing forgotten and hidden away buildings and spotted this article in the Guardian, have a read, exciting stuff! -
This incredible article from The Guardian demonstrates the deep links between ecological diversity and cultural diversity, examining the loss of languages in relation to shrinking habitats and the necessity of a healthy biosphere to assist healthy cultural output. -
Sentient City expands on an original concept devised by Part Exchange Co in 2011 for its performance event, Drive in Deco; www.hiddencity.org.uk – that buildings are sentient, absorbing and retaining significant changes and events in their own lifetimes as well as… Read more: Seed Ideas – Sentient City -
Super Everything – Inspiration for Sentient City
Tom Lumens shared this piece as the pinnacle of the audio-visual-narrative artform. ‘This type of live cinema shares similarities with much abstract art, in that it gives you motives, snippets and elements and you create your own narratives or… Read more: Super Everything – Inspiration for Sentient City -
Floods Unearth Forest Myths – Earthed
4,500 year-old trees were revealed in Cardigan Bay following the incredible winter storms, giving rise to physical evidence which links to the legend of the lost city of Cantre’r Gwaelod. This news item directly fed into our thinking regarding how a myth… Read more: Floods Unearth Forest Myths – Earthed -
Edward Snowden Talks Data Collection – Future Tourist
In days gone by the US government used to go to a judge, outline a case and receive permission to investigate an individual by tracing their data. Now, they’ve decided it’s a good idea to collect everything from everybody before… Read more: Edward Snowden Talks Data Collection – Future Tourist -
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation – Earthed
“Gravity is a law of nature. Electromagnetism, the four forces—those sort of things are nature and they underpin all of growing nature. And so a garden is a really interesting place to speculate on the ultimate forces of nature… Read more: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation – Earthed -
Rachel Aspinwall, Part Exchange Co and The Engine House’s Artistic Director writes about the seed idea and explains what inspired its inception. Earthed is a project to create a new earth sculpture on an epic scale on a piece of land… Read more: Seed Ideas – Earthed - Text and Technology – Beating Out Language
We were shown this by one of the Engine House partners, Jerome Fletcher – Associate Professor of Performance Writing at Falmouth University – as an example of writing ‘off the skin’ in relation to tattooing and writing ‘on the… Read more: Text and Technology – Beating Out Language