Peoples Production Lab (PPL) Roundtable in association with Creative Lancashire & Digital Lancashire

Hosted Ruth Heritage

This session will assess the economic benefit of incubators, accelerators and co-working spaces (IACs), and what they mean for public policy in terms of encouraging innovation within the region. We also examine the characteristics of these spaces and the services they offer, as well as their broader role, including supporting the regeneration of places.

NB: This session is for a specially invited audience of creative industry practitioners and partners. A limted number of places will be available to others.

Ruth Heritage:
Ruth set up cultural producers They Eat Culture in 2009 to work with emergent & established creative practitioners & communities to articulate contemporary Lancashire. Ruth produced & directed several broadcast documentaries, written & made indie fiction films, & practices, plays & experiments around creative truth and lies of documentary through arts, culture, & trans/media work. Ruth has taught on culture and media studies courses as an Associate Lecturer & has published her academic work in active media & citizenship. Ruth She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Peoples Production Lab:
In December 2017 Ruth took over a city centre 4 storey office block in Preston to turn it into ‘The People’s Production Lab’, where alongside local and international creative collaborators they will be making things and making things happen with people. Recently launched, the space will contain a wood workshop, space for metal and large scale activity, screening and mixed reality space, 3d print room, analogue print facilities, a range of analogue/digital music production kit, and much more.