Presentation to Digital Placemaking Fellowship research project, Wednesday 29th May 2019. Task: Bring in an object that relates to your work and approach to digital placemaking, and speak about it for 2 minutes. As I’m linking this research project to internet radio station I’ve co-set up, I’ve brought in the case for the audio recorder…..but…
One page response – Dr Shawn Sobers, UWE “Digital Placemaking can improve the way people feel about the places they live, work, and visit.” Digital Placemaking Fellowship document The other day I went to a beautiful funeral in the Foxhill area of Bath. The deceased was a man I had never met, but I went…
Opinion piece… Yesterday Radio 1 played the song ‘Black’, by Dave, and some listeners complained saying it was ‘reverse racism’ for him to talk about being proud to be Black. I’d say if they see this song as a problem, then it is they themselves that are the problem. Arguably however this is where communication…
Left footprint, Barbados 2005. Right footprint, Cornwall 2010. Never take your own footprints for granted. The turning of dates on a calender is an artificial structure to make sense of nature’s very real cycle of seasons. Some people say they can’t wait for this year to be over, as if the year label has any…
I’ve been reluctant to post this for ages as it’s a picture of me, but the fact it’s by a talented colleague has (eventually) overruled that decision. The portrait is by Chris Webster, who runs the animation course at UWE. We started teaching at UWE on the same day in 2002. Met at an induction day…
I have to speak up and say I find this anonymous art installation pretty offensive. Without the words I feel this would be a perfect response to the Colston statue, the shadow cast as a slave ship. With the words however it’s problematic. There is no comparison between the workers mentioned in the art piece,…
Nostalgia is a thief emotion. The best days are in front of us. Shawn Sobers 21 October 2018
