Future IDEAS (Imagining Digital Empowerment and Sustainability)

Creative Sustainability CIC and the Centre for Sociodigital Futures at the University of Bristol are working together with two communities in Stroud Town to consider their ideas and feelings about connection, technologies and preferable futures. This involves considering how technologies might impact on our social and digital lives.

One of the communities is based at the Top of the Town Community Hub (TOTCH) where we are working with families with younger children. The other is in Uplands at an independent living facility with an age range between 55- 90.

We have commissioned local artist group, Stand and Stare, to capture the outcomes of our workshops and help participants produce a response to the theme of Connection.

About us

At Creative Sustainability we provide residentials, activities, workshops, support and opportunities for marginalised people and communities across Stroud and beyond. We facilitate safe, supportive environments where people develop confidence and independence, raise self-esteem and expectations, access peer to peer support, develop and maintain friendships and become active citizens. For many these are first steps to improving mental and physical health, living happy and fulfilled lives.   Our work aims to address mental, physical and economic health and digital inequalities for disabled, disadvantaged and vulnerable people.

The Centre for Sociodigital Futures at the University of Bristol is a flagship research centre aiming to generate new approaches to fairer and more sustainable societies by exploring sociodigital futures-in-the-making. Our work is seeking to understand how social and digital futures are connected. This piece of work sits within the ‘Communities and their Sociodigital Futures’ work happening within the Centre.