pervasive media studio

Join The Studio

The Pervasive Media Studio offers space for collaboration between creative talent, technology companies and content commissioners to identify and explore new opportunities, create new ideas and deliver innovation to the market around Pervasive Media.

Pervasive Media is basically any experience that uses sensors and mobile/wireless networks to bring you content (film, music, images, a game…) that’s sensitive to your situation – which could be where you are, how you feel, or who you are with. Oyster Cards are a simple pervasive device: so are audio guides at tourist attractions, which can give you extra information according to where you are and which bits
’ve been to already.

Pervasive Media is Digital Media delivered into the fabric of real life and based on the situational context at the moment of delivery

The two defining features of Pervasive Media are:

1. Uses technology to understand something about the situation and respond based on that information;
2. Uses digital media to augment (bridge) the physical environment, and vice versa.

Any residency in the Pervasive Media Studio is built upon engagement and participation. It is through frequent, targeted and rich interactions that residents will derive lasting and sustainable value. Residents must therefore be undertaking research into mobile/wireless media and be willing to collaborate and share knowledge and skills with other studio residents. 

In order to keep a healthy balance of type of research and projects within the studio, we are at present specifically welcoming applications from technologists and projects which answer a societal need, address sustainability and/or have the potential for significant impact.

Apply now for:

A specific research project

Our simple application forms asks about your background, the type of research you plan to undertake and why you believe the studio will add value to your work. Download and complete an application form and send it to Shirin Packham (shirin@pmstudio.co.uk).

Graduate and New Talent Residencies:

A unique opportunity open to new talent (recent graduates or people starting out in their careers) who would like to spend time developing a pervasive idea (commercial or creative) in an open and collaborative space. You may have studied engineering, technology, media, architecture or fashion, computing, design or performance. The idea could be completely new, or something you have begun to develop already. To apply, please read the overview, download and complete an application form and send it to Shirin Packham (shirin@pmstudio.co.uk).

In all cases the Studio advisory board will review all application and get in touch. The studio has limited capacity so please get in touch early on in the development of your plans.