{"id":13681,"date":"2026-05-15T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=13681"},"modified":"2026-05-28T14:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:55:50","slug":"indivisible-the-360-igloo-as-prism-portal-potential-docfest-13-june-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/indivisible-the-360-igloo-as-prism-portal-potential-docfest-13-june-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Indivisible: the 360 Igloo as prism\/portal\/potential – DocFest, 13 June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sheffield Creative Industries Institute at Docfest Alternate Realities Programme\u00a0<\/strong><\/h6>\n

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Indivisible<\/span><\/i> explores the unfolding opportunities afforded by the technology, physical experience, and connectedness of the Sheffield Hallam University<\/span> Igloo<\/span><\/i> 360 immersive space – extending participation beyond static exhibition site and into\u00a0 creative, embodied and critical, multi-sensory encounters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each selected piece explores the potential for immersive place-inspired storytelling: centering research, innovation, and knowledge exchange to tell stories about climate, nature, resilience, and to document hidden histories of the city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Indivisible <\/span><\/i>is a showcase for inspiration, dialogue and provocation. We look forward to welcoming you to the space.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Curator & Producer: Amy Carter Gordon: Associate Director: Innovation (Culture & Curation)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Specialist technical expertise: Tanni Moyana, Digital Skills Academic Lead for SY Institute of Technology<\/span><\/p>\n

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Venue: South Yorkshire Institute of Technology<\/b><\/p>\n

Strines Building, Sheffield Hallam University \u2013 City Campus, S1 2LX<\/span><\/p>\n

Opening times:<\/b> 10:00 – 18:00<\/span><\/p>\n

Free, no booking required<\/span><\/p>\n

Important information:<\/b><\/p>\n

Please note the showcase is only open to Docfest pass holders and to Sheffield Hallam University staff by appointment only, contact a.carter-gordon@shu.ac.uk. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Due to limited capacity in the<\/span> Igloo<\/span><\/i>, each piece will be screened multiple times during the day. If you arrive part-way through a showing, we kindly ask that you wait for the next one. Wait times will be minimal as the projections are short in duration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Artist talks:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Throughout the day, the artist-researchers will give informal talks about their work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Programme<\/b><\/h3>\n

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Title: <\/b>Germinate and Reclaim Industrial Terrain (GRIT)<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By:<\/b> Jane Prophet: Professor of Art and Design<\/span><\/p>\n

Duration:<\/b> 00:07 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image credit: Jane Prophet<\/p><\/div>\n

Weeds thrive in rubble and ruins, embodying regeneration and unruly vitality. Germinate <\/span>and Reclaim Industrial Terrain (GRIT) immerses participants in towering poppies and dandelions that resist human control and quantification. Using documentary and stock footage to train AI, alongside post-processed video, the 360 video celebrates resilient flowering weeds and challenges the human quantification of plants. Chosen for their ability to colonise post-industrial and disturbed spaces, poppies and dandelions push through rubble and compacted soil. Poppies famously flourished on the disturbed, nitrogen-rich ground of WWI battlefields, while dandelions\u2019 deep taproots and prolific seed dispersal allow rapid occupation of hostile environments. Together, these plants symbolise persistence, adaptation, and nature\u2019s capacity to reclaim damaged landscapes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Credits:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Video: Jane Prophet | <\/span>Edited: Jane Prophet & Bill Jackson | <\/span>Sound: Jane Prophet & Bill Jackson | <\/span>Music: ‘In Ambience’ by Addictive TV<\/span><\/p>\n

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Title: <\/b>Storm-Cloud 360: Fragments in Connection<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

By:<\/b> Jake Goodall: Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design, Course Leader for BA (Hons) Creative Digital Design<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Duration: <\/b>00:16 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

An immersive retelling of the distance between old foreshadowings and the current contexts of climate activism.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1884, John Ruskin foretold of ominous changes to weather phenomena in his prophetic lecture \u2018Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century\u2019, attributing unsteady cloud patterns and subsequent environmental damage to the effects of industrialisation. This emotional warning to the world about human effects on nature rings true 140 years later as we\u2019re now living in the epicentre of a climate crisis, shouting about the same effects Ruskin observed and hoping for change. This immersive visual experience places participants at the centre of this perpetual conversation; unearthing archives, highlighting connections and celebrating those (past and present) fighting for a stable future.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image credit: Jake Goodall<\/p><\/div>\n

Credits:<\/b><\/p>\n

Jake Goodall\u2019s <\/span>Fragments in Connection<\/span><\/i> for Docfest 2026 breaks apart and remakes <\/span>Thrown into Form, <\/span><\/i>condensing Tom Payne\u2019s recorded performance, his own motion design expanded with new visual material, and David John Brady\u2019s score, into an immersive environment without live performer. With archival research by Ashley Gallant, drawings by Billy Hughes, and photographs by Becky Payne, the installation layers fragments of past versions into a new form.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Title: <\/b>Good Storytelling Is\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

By:<\/b> Jake Goodall: Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design, Course Leader for BA(Hons) Creative Digital Design<\/span><\/p>\n

Duration: <\/b>10:00 mins<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image credit: Jake Goodall<\/p><\/div>\n

Good Storytelling Is\u2026 <\/span><\/i>an interactive tool and experience, designed to challenge ideas of what \u2018good\u2019 storytelling is through abstract data visualisation. It serves to prompt participants to consider creating their own tools, and opens dialogue around the cost of software and skills in the current economical and educational climate. The piece consists of a short immersive documentary, followed by a chance to experiment for yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Title:<\/b> City of Echoes: Point Clouds and Memory Paths\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

By: <\/b>Anne Doncaster, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Production<\/span><\/p>\n

Duration: <\/b>04:00 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

City of Echoes: Point Clouds and Memory Paths is a digital installation exploring memory, urban transformation, and the fragility of the built environment. The project reconstructs demolished historical structures across Sheffield using 3D point cloud models derived from scans, photographs, and archival sources. Rather than presenting complete reconstructions, the buildings appear as fragmented constellations of data\u2014ghost-like forms that hover between presence and absence.<\/span><\/p>\n

As visitors follow a series of \u2018memory paths\u2019, they encounter dispersed traces of the city\u2019s lost architecture. This work revisits the story of the Tinsley Cooling Towers, once a defining landmark of Sheffield\u2019s skyline, re-emerging as ephemeral digital fragments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Combining archival research with digital visualisation, the installation presents the city as a shifting archive where past structures persist as echoes within Sheffield\u2019s evolving urban landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image credit: Anne Doncaster<\/p><\/div>\n

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Special thanks: Dr Zelda Hannay freelance producer & Rachel Scarfe, Innovation Services.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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