Can you tell me a little bit about where we are?

What can you see?

What’s your favourite thing to do here?

What memories do you have of this place?

Before we moved from Dundee to Bristol in the Autumn of 2023, I asked my daughter Poppy to take me to some of her favourite places where we lived. I asked her about how these places made her feel, what they made her think of and significant memories she attached to them. We documented our intergenerational father-daughter conversations through audio recordings and 3D scans of these sites.

Developed by artist-researcher Harry Robert Wilson in collaboration with his 7-year-old daughter Poppy, Placing Spaces uses 3D scanning and audio recorded conversations to install a series of geo-located Augmented Reality encounters at various outdoor locations. Part treasure hunt and part site-specific performance for one, Placing Spaces explores transitions and the layering of space, belonging and memory through the lens of one father-daughter relationship.

In this workshop Harry and Poppy will share the process of making the work with other children and their parents/carers with a view to developing it for a new context in Bristol. While the initial project has been interested in exploring father/daughter relationships, we very much welcome other parent/child and intergenerational carer relations that do not easily fit this category.

The Pervasive Media Studio is wheelchair accessible and offers a quiet room. Directions: Enter the Watershed and walk through the cafe to the back toilets. Walk down the corridor and buzz the door- the workshop facilitators will be there to let you in. There are tea and coffee making facilitaties in the PM Studio.

** This workshop is open to PM Studio residents and University of Bristol staff. This workshop is free and there are limited spaces on the workshop. If for whatever reason you are unable to come, please return your tickets to be added to the waiting list.

Placing Spaces Workshop