{"id":2648,"date":"2016-08-24T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2018-07-26T12:24:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:24:37","slug":"esther-johnson-alone-together-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/esther-johnson-alone-together-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Esther Johnson presenting her film &#8216;Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches&#8217; at Well-being Conference 2016 in Birmingham this September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/esther-johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Esther Johnson<\/a> will be presenting her film <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blanchepictures.com\/alone-together\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches<\/a><\/em> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcuadvantage.co.uk\/events\/185\/WellBeingConference2016\" target=\"_blank\">Well-being Conference 2016<\/a> in Birmingham. The conference theme is &#8216;Co-creating Pathways to Well-being: exploring the multi-dimensions of well-being, focusing on the achievements of well-being through collaboration \u2013 to co-create experiences which are positive and meaningful to the individual&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Well-being Conference 2016<br \/>\nBirmingham City University<br \/>\n05 September &#8211; 06 September<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/esther-johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Esther Johnson<\/a> is a Reader in Media Arts, Principal Lecturer in Film and Media Production and researcher at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/research\/specialisms\/cultural-communication-and-computing-research-institute\/research-centres\/art-and-design-research-centre\" target=\"_blank\">Art and Design Research Centre <\/a>(ADRC) at Sheffield Hallam University. Find out more about Esther&#8217;s work <a href=\"http:\/\/blanchepictures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Esther Johnson will be presenting her film Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches at the Well-being Conference 2016 in Birmingham. The conference theme is &#8216;Co-creating Pathways to Well-being: exploring the multi-dimensions of well-being, focusing on the achievements of well-being through collaboration \u2013 to co-create experiences which are positive and meaningful to the individual&#8217;. Well-being Conference 2016 Birmingham City [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":2652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,441,140,115],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-alone-together","tag-esther-johnson","tag-media-arts-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2016\/08\/well-being-2016-131032905663667785.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-GI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3007,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/esther-johnson-alone-together-michael-young\/","url_meta":{"origin":2648,"position":0},"title":"Dr Esther Johnson&#8217;s film, &#8216;Alone Together, The Social Life of Benches&#8217; to be shown as part of the Michael Young Centenary Conference","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"25\/11\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr Esther Johnson's film, Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches illuminates the thoughts and memories of frequent users of two public spaces in London: General Gordon Square, Woolwich and St Helier Open Space, Sutton. 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