Immersive learning at Sparks, Bristol: Research and analysis report for Global Goals Centre, July 2024
Report
Author(s) / editor(s):
ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
Year: 2025
Language(s): English
Abstract:
Sparks is a centre for sustainability, creativity and education in Bristol. It is located in a large building formerly occupied by Marks & Spencer in the Broadmead precinct, a retail area in the city centre. Sparks is run by a collaboration between Global Goals Centre and Artspace Lifespace. It engages the public with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through its ‘department store with a difference’, events and educational workshops, and through the provision of creative community arts, rehearsal and performance spaces. This report summarises the results of a case study of Sparks conducted by the Learning domain research team at the Centre for Sociodigital Futures and the Education Lead at Sparks, from December 2023 to August 2024. The aim of this research project was to examine the role of publicly accessible immersive spaces (whether physical or digital), which bring people together and invite them to imagine other futures. This is, to our knowledge, the first academic research project to analyse Sparks as an empirical case study.
https://doi.org/10.71706/5b7f95a6-a67f-4828-b43a-83c5cf6dd348
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