Spaces of Dissent: Coproducing resilient futures This series of workshops brings together social enterprises, charitable organisations and activist groups within Bristol into spaces of mutual learning in which best practice can be shared and common tensions can be explored. We combine embodied facilitation techniques with digital media, art and experiential learning. We recognise that right […]
Productive Margins at the Utopia Fair, Somerset House, London
Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court, 24 -26 June 2016, Free admission Presented in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Connected Communities programme, the Utopia Fair will showcase the creative outcomes from 25 AHRC-funded projects alongside 10 additional initiatives that have been hand-selected by Somerset House. These projects work to bring together […]
SPAN’s Somali Women’s Group goes to the Community Kitchen at Coexist
Written by Annie Oliver, with input from Ari Cantwell and Kitty Webster As part of the co-produced research project Who Decides What’s In My Fridge a group of Somali mothers have been meeting regularly at Single Parent Action Network over the last 6 months to explore some of the factors that regulate food habits. Taking […]
Productive Margins ‘Tea for Talk’ research group presents Alonely – Tobacco Factory Theatres
‘Alonely’ at the Tobacco Factory Theatre on 8th July at 12.30pm. In an ideal world it would feel alright to be alone. In an ideal world there’d always be someone there. In an ideal world loneliness would not envelop me. In an ideal world Suppose in an ideal world… Busy streets, laughter, the sound of […]
Using visual and creative methods to engage change with young people, Sheffield University Student Conference, 10- June-2016
Making, Mapping and Mobilising in Merthyr: using visual and creative methods to engage change with young people Gabrielle Ivinson, Manchester Metropolitan University The presentation will describe a range of arts-based methods designed to enable young people living in ex-mining valley of south Wales to speak back to pathologising media images of the place where they […]
Made in Knowle West
On a sunny May afternoon a group of adults and children made their way from Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) to the nearby Springfield Allotments. We were taking part in a Bristol Food Connections workshop to forage for local ingredients and learn how to turn these into summer drinks. The gathering grew throughout the afternoon until […]
A food project that’s close to home
Yasmin Thomas has just finished as a Junior Digital Producer at Knowle West Media Centre. Here she looks back at her time working on the Who Decides What’s in my Fridge? project. I have lived in Knowle West since the age of four, but I didn’t know that my first role in the media and arts […]
Mark Stephens, CBE Q & A Lecture at Single Parent Action Network
Friday 20th of May, 10-12 followed by lunch and conversation 12-2. Described as the ‘Patron solicitor of previously lost causes’ renowned media and human rights lawyer, Mark Stephens is coming to the Single Parent Action Network (SPAN). The Productive Margins ‘life-chances’ research program has been investigating experiences of regulatory bodies, poverty and routes out of […]
Welcome to Productive Margins new website
After a 6 month labour of love we are launching our new more interactive, reflective and user friendly website! Here you will find multidisciplinary projects’ outputs, reflections on co-production and a range of resources. We wanted a website that, besides communicating research news and outputs, would enable us to share our experience of the dilemmas […]
Made in Knowle West
Did you know that Ribena was first made in Bristol not far from Knowle West? Join us for ‘Made in Knowle West’, an afternoon of creating new delicious drinks, celebrating both our local landscape and the creativity of residents. In the afternoon we will search the local landscape for fruit and herbs to make summer drinks and other seasonal […]
