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BEYOND 2022 – Cardiff

Watch on demand sessions from BEYOND 2022, with over 100 speakers across a two day schedule packed full of insight, innovation and inspiration. A hybrid conference, catch up on sessions recorded in Cardiff as well as many that featured on our online platform.

18 October 2022

Introduction to BEYOND 2022
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Jason Mohammad, TV and Radio Broadcaster

Sophie Howe keynote
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The Future Generations Act means public bodies in Wales have to consider the long term impact of their decisions. The first Commissioner for the Act, Sophie Howe will tell us about her role, the act, and what is has meant for both creativity and the Creative Industries.

Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

Michael Sheen and Sophie Howe in Conversation
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In a conversation between Future Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe and actor Michael Sheen chaired by Professor Sara Pepper, this session asks what real sustainability needs to work, and if the creative industries can play a role in wider, deeper, long-term engagement that solves problems rather than simply manages them.

Michael Sheen, Actor

Prof Sara Pepper, Professor of Creative Economy, Cardiff University

Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

FRAMERATE: The Production of an Environmental Artwork
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FRAMERATE bears witness to landscape-scale change caused by humans and nature. ScanLAB talk about creating an artwork underpinned by sustainable values, which also delivers a significant scientific contribution. They also interrogate the environmental impact of producing and touring the work internationally.

Emilia Clark, Studio and Production Manager, ScanLAB Projects

Matthew Shaw, Director and Co-Founder, ScanLAB Projects

All Hands on Set? Decarbonising the Screen Industry
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There is plenty of commitment to reducing the carbon footprint of the screen industries but how much difference are actions making? What do we need to know and do to make sustainability a built-in part of every production process, can change take hold faster and in the end have a really significant impact?

Jason Mohammad, TV and Radio Broadcaster

Steve Smith, Project Manager Screen New Deal Wales & Studio Standard, BAFTA albert

Richard Phillips, Climate Change Specialist, Julie’s Bicycle

Tilly Ashton, Production Sustainability Advisor, Severn Screen

Green Wing: Streamlining sustainability workflows for the screen sector
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Welsh TV production company Little Bird Films share their R&D journey, exploring the practicalities and the pain points of completing BAFTA albert’s sustainability accreditation on production, and how it led to the development of the Green Wing app – a practical tool for making carbon footprint data collection easier, more accurate, and more engaging.

Louise Bray, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Little Bird Films

Nida Harwood, Project Manager, Green Wing

Changing the Story: Can the Creative Industries Lead the Climate Transition?
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What is the role of advertising and screen narratives in pushing and pulling audiences towards action on climate change? Is design the essential translating force between engineers and activists? This panel asks if the creative industries are likely to be a footnote in the bigger picture of a world in transition, or can they be a powerful force to inform and influence audiences.

Angela Chan, Head of Inclusion / Doctoral Researcher, StoryFutures, Royal Holloway, University of London

Lisa Merrick-Lawless, Co-Founder & Director, Purpose Disruptors

Prof Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE, Director of CAST, Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST)

Prof. Owen Sheers, Writer/ Professor in Creativity, Swansea University

Niamh Crawford, Senior Programme Manager, Design Council

Green Planet: XR to Change Minds
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Focusing on the Green Planet AR Experience from the BBC and Factory42, this session looks at the potential for XR to change audience attitudes and behaviours around sustainability and draw on StoryFutures work across psychology, geography, and conservation.

Dr Maruša Levstek, Audience Insight Research Fellow, StoryFutures

Tales from StoryTrails
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StoryTrails put AR and VR technologies into the hands of young creatives across the UK so they could find and tell the stories from their towns, past and present, bringing people, places, and untold stories to life. From Sheffield we hear from Sile Sibanda about her work creating a story map, and Gemma Thorpe who uncovered the Sheffield story of early 20th Century environmentalist, Ethel Haythornthwaite, and what they discovered working with immersive storytelling.

Gemma Thorpe, AR Trail Maker, StoryTrails

Sile Sibanda, Creative Producer, StoryTrails

Breaking the News: Community-led Storytelling
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Who tells the stories influences what stories get told. In news storytelling the pool of tellers has lacked diversity, and with local news production struggling to survive, the agenda narrows and stories that matter most to communities are left without voice. We hear from two young journalists about community-led newsroom initiatives aiming to change that.

Shirish Kulkarni, Award-winning Investigative Journalist, Researcher and Community organiser

Bethany Handley, Communications Officer, Diverse Cymru

Miss Shakira Morka, Young Company Member, GALWAD

From the Ground up: Building the World of Galwad
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Shirish Kulkarni along with production designer and world-builder Alex McDowell and Creative Director Claire Doherty reflect on the world-building work they undertook with 100+ people from communities across Wales to create the worlds of GALWAD, a multi-platform story imagining alternative futures in a climate-changed world, inspired by the Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015.

Prof Alex McDowell, Director, World Building Institute

Claire Doherty, Creative Director, GALWAD/Collective Cymru

Shirish Kulkarni, Award-winning Investigative Journalist, Researcher and Community organiser

Where Next? A Sustainable Future for Creative R&D
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What have we learnt about the process of Research and Development to create innovation in the creative industries in recent years? What works in creative R&D and which approaches are most successful, and which should we avoid? The panel will ask what are the tangible benefits of investing in R&D in the creative industries, and how we measure success, looking along the way at what the UK can learn from other European creative clusters, and the lessons of the Creative Industries Cluster Programme – or similar initiatives – for policy makers.

Prof Andrew Chitty, UKRI Challenge Director and AHRC Creative Economy Champion, UK Research and Innovation

Prof Justin Lewis, Director, Clwstwr / Cardiff University

Dr Marlen Komorowski, Senior Research Fellow, Cardiff University – Clwstwr – Media Cymru

Helge O. Svela, CEO, Media City Bergen

Dr Josh Siepel, Senior Lecturer/PEC Lead for Creative Clusters, R&D and Access to Finance, University of Sussex/Creative Industries PEC

BEYOND Day 01 Wrap-up
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Jason Mohammad, TV and Radio Broadcaster

Taite Johnson, BEYOND Roving Reporter, Freelance Journalist

19 October 2022

Welcome to BEYOND UNBOXED
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Katie Popperwell, Senior International Producer, UNBOXED

UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK – A year of collaboration across sectors and borders
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UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK is a year-long programme of 10 major, multi-site and digital creative projects delivered across the four nations of the UK. The 10 commissions presented as part of UNBOXED in 2022 have been forged through new collaborations across science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics, using processes and methods drawn from across those sectors. 

Commissions have come to life indoors and outdoors, in city centres, coastal towns and deep into the landscape, in person, through broadcast and online, all in the context of pandemic recovery. Accessibility has been at the forefront, with projects designed to encourage people of all ages to engage with a range of topics from sustainability, biodiversity, and neuroscience, to diversity and community. As the live phase begins to draws to a close, we ask what can be learned from a year of projects built on collaboration between governments, sectors, and extraordinary individuals and organisations. 

Phil Batty, Executive Director, UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK

Dame Vikki Heywood DBE, Board Chair, UNBOXED

Imagine and Design: the R&D journey to 10 experiments in collaborative creativity
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UNBOXED is the product of an innovative approach to the commissioning of ambitious, new, creative work. This session will talk about the ideas underpinning that process and what the process was designed to achieve.

Sam Hunt, Programme Director, UNBOXED

Facilitating a free-for-all: Inside The Creative Studio R&D lab
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The Creative Studio was a unique R&D programme centred on bringing together a diverse range of talent from across science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics with the broad challenge to create a project that was open, original and optimistic. Teams took part in a six-week semi-structured, virtually delivered series of seminars, workshops, lectures, open sessions and consultations.
 
Join broadcaster Elle-Osili Wood, one of the original creative ambassadors for the R&D, with creatives from Dreamachine, About Us and StoryTrails, to discuss insights and lessons from this unprecedented model of funding, collaboration, ideation and production.

Miss Angel Louise Pooler, Web Stemette, Stemettes

Angela Chan, Head of Inclusion / Doctoral Researcher, StoryFutures, Royal Holloway, University of London

Mr Dev Joshi, Technical Director, Collective Act

Elle Osili-Wood, Television and radio presenter

SEE MONSTER: A world first in creative reuse
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A retired rig from the North Sea, transformed into one of the UK’s largest public art installations to ignite global conversations about reuse, renewables and the great British weather. Patrick O’Mahony and Antonia Gammans discuss how the project came about and the importance of exploring the regeneration of inherited structures, what we do with them and the actions they inspire.

Mr Patrick O’Mahony, Creative Director & Founder, NEWSUBSTANCE

Ms Antonia Gammans, Head of Marketing & Partnerships, NEWSUBSTANCE

Do You See What I See? Dreamachine and the Perception Census
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Dreamachine is an immersive art experience combining light and music to create a colourful world behind your closed eyes – created by your own brain and completely unique to you. Produced by Collective Act, together with Turner Prize-winning artists Assemble, Grammy and Mercury nominated composer Jon Hopkins, and a team of leading technologists, scientists and philosophers, it is inspired by a pioneering 1959 invention by artist Brion Gysin, designed to be ‘the first artwork to be experienced with your eyes closed.’ 60 years later, Gysin’s concept has been radically reimagined into a new collective experience that has travelled the four nations of the UK, commissioned by UNBOXED.

Professor Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex

Jennifer Crook, Director, Collective Act

How to Change the World: Creative initiatives for people and planet
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UNBOXED: Collective Futures is a research enquiry led by the RSA that examines of the value of taking an inclusive, collaborative approach to shaping better futures for people and planet. Within the context of this research, creatives from three UNBOXED commissions – Our Place in Space, an epic scale model of the solar system and AR that uses the concept of the overview effect as experienced by astronauts to engender new perspectives and new connections in post-conflict communities; PoliNations, a city centre forest garden and app that uses biodiversity to explore migratory histories, and Dandelion, which aims to seed a sustainable mass movement of community growing and environmental regeneration – explore their core missions and participatory methods for creatively engaging communities in a journey toward a more sustainable future. 

Jenny Niven, Executive Producer, Dandelion

John Peto, Lead Producer, the Nerve Centre

Shirin Maani, Head of Global Innovation, The Royal Society of Arts

Tamsin Hanke, Director, THISS Studio

Creative Innovation in Live Experiences and Festivals – UNBOXED as case study
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The Creative Research and Innovation Centre (CRAIC) convenes a project on creative innovation in live experiences and festivals with focus on UNBOXED and its individual commissions as major R&D interventions and disruptors into the live experience economy. Building on the Creative Industries Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund programmes – Audience of the Future and Creative Industries Clusters – the study explores UNBOXED in terms of transformative R&D processes, audience experiences, and sustainable and inclusive innovation. This presentation will share findings on STEAM-induced creativity within UNBOXED as symptomatic of the role creative R&D and innovation could play in driving solutions to societal challenges.

Dr Lora Markova, Researcher, Creative Research and Innovation Centre (CRAIC), Loughborough University London

Citizens of Imagination: Creative technology and the civic role of storytelling
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With the rapid emergence of the 3D internet and a virtual world increasingly riven with social discord, how might we put creative technology into the hands of communities to tell their own stories in new ways? Join creatives from UNBOXED commissions GALWAD and PoliNations to explore the challenges and rewards of running digitally inclusive projects and the role of technology in deepening our relationship to people and to place.

Mr Gethin Evans, Artistic Director / Artistic Direcor (LIVE), Fran Wen / GALWAD

Dr Lora Markova, Researcher, Creative Research and Innovation Centre (CRAIC), Loughborough University London

Rachel Wakelin, Brand Strategist, Peter & Paul

What comes next? The new generation shaping creative futures
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A panel of young emerging creatives reflect on their experience of working on collaborative projects in the creative industries and how they might shape that experience differently in the future.

John Akinde, Learning & Engagement / Programming, Tour De Moon

Lucy Wheeler, Creative Practitioner, StoryTrails

Dr Shama Rahman, CEO and Founder, Neurocreate

Rha Hira Arayal, Unboxed Ambassador

UNBOXED Wrap-up & Thank You
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Prof Andrew Chitty, UKRI Challenge Director and AHRC Creative Economy Champion, UK Research and Innovation

Katie Popperwell, Senior International Producer, UNBOXED

20 October 2022

Meet The Researchers: Innovation
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In this session, we sit down with three researchers from the creative arts to discuss questions of sustainable processes and workflows for the creative industries.

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Jemily Rime, PhD Student, University of York

Meet The Researchers: Events
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In this session we explore creative events and performances in relation to topics of sustainability, heritage, and accessibility.

Briony Latter, PhD researcher, Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST), Cardiff University

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Jack Hardiker, Artist, Researcher, Educator, Office of Everyone, Royal College of Art

Dr Lora Markova, Researcher, Creative Research and Innovation Centre (CRAIC), Loughborough University London

International Perspectives on the Future of Festivals
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This panel brings together festival leaders from Brazil, Egypt and Malaysia to share some of the challenges, priorities and strategies around sustainable festival leadership from the perspective of three different continents. The social purpose of festivals is to bring us together – to cohere and connect us through shared experiences. But in doing so they also become a powerful vehicle for social change, an open space for critical discourse and free expression, and an essential part of any creative economy. What are the factors that contribute to a healthy festivals ecosystem? What frameworks should we use to measure and advocate for the value of festivals across a range of socio-political contexts, and how might different festival models present new opportunities for sustainable and inclusive growth?  

This panel was brought together with the support of the British Council, the official international partner of UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK

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Katie Popperwell, Senior International Producer, UNBOXED

UNBOXED: New Talent, Future Visions
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Eleven young creatives under-30 from across the UNBOXED commissions – including producers working across AR, VR and combined arts, writers, community activists and emerging designers – share their journeys and talk about the issues that affect them and the wider creative industries. Over the past year, they have worked across UNBOXED project Dreamachine, Tour de Moon, StoryTrails, PoliNations, Dandelion and GALWAD, engaging with communities, managing projects, developing their talents, their voices and their creative practice.
 
This session presents a film produced by the group reflecting on their experiences, what sustainability means to them and the positive change they want to drive forward within the creative sector. The screening will be followed by a discussion.

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Benchmarking Sustainability and Challenges
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This multidisciplinary session, with a panel from disparate fields of science, technology, and creative practices will explore the challenges of benchmarking sustainability and how a transdisciplinary approach could significantly help to overcome the obstacles to Net-Zero. The panel will discuss how existing knowledge from a discipline could be migrated to other fields, to solve real industrial and social challenges, with some examples from the Future Fashion Factory programme. More importantly, this session will celebrate the new culture in the UK to make the boundary between science and creative practices porous to draw the best intellectual outputs to solve contemporary global challenges.

Adam Mansell, CEO, UKFT (The UK Fashion & Textile Association)

Amanda McLaren, Managing Director, AW Hainsworth

Dr Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis, Reader in Chemical Engineering, University of Huddersfield

James Devitt, Head of Corporate Policy, University of Huddersfield

Prof Nic Clear, Dean of Schoolf of Arts and Humanities, University of Huddersfield

Prof Parikshit Goswami, Head of Department; Director – Technical Textiles Research Centre, University of Huddersfield

Meet The Researchers: Engagement
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This session explores our engagement with sustainability in our daily environment, reflecting on our perception of the climate urgency. 

Dr Gemma Bridge, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, York St John

John Harrison, University of Huddersfield

Mischa Price, University of Plymouth

Meet The Researchers: Processes
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In this session we reflect on processes and innovations dedicated to sustainable production, performance and the preservation of communities.

Laura Solomon, R&D Fellow, UAL Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute Industry, University of the Arts London

Lucy Devall, Innovation Manager, Arts University Bournemouth

Paul Granjon, Senior lecturer, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Afsaneh Eliyas A Shibani, PhD student, Queen’s University Belfast