{"id":3007,"date":"2015-11-25T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2018-07-26T12:27:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:27:21","slug":"esther-johnson-alone-together-michael-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/esther-johnson-alone-together-michael-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Esther Johnson’s film, ‘Alone Together, The Social Life of Benches’ to be shown as part of the Michael Young Centenary Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Esther Johnson<\/a>‘s film, Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches<\/em><\/a> illuminates the thoughts and memories of frequent users of two public spaces in London: General Gordon Square, Woolwich and St Helier Open Space, Sutton.<\/p>\n

Revolving around the micro-space of the humble bench, the emotional and experiential capacity of film is used as an instrument to highlight themes such as the feeling of being in a space, the rhythm and flow of visitors to a places, and the importance of everyday design. The film acts like a stranger who joins you on a bench to ‘watch the world go by’ and break the ice by starting a conversation with their fellow bench user.<\/p>\n

Further information on the Michael Young Centenery Conference, ‘#MY100: Social Innovation: Tackling Inequality in the 21st Century’ taking place at Barbican Conference Centre on 11 November is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr Esther Johnson<\/a> is an artist and filmmaker working at the intersection of artist moving image and documentary portraiture. Find out more about her work here<\/a>. Esther is a Reader in Media Arts at Sheffield Hallam University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. Revolving around the micro-space of the humble bench, the emotional and experiential capacity of film is used as an instrument to highlight themes such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":2740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[5,441,140,124,115],"class_list":["post-3007","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-film-research","tag-media-arts-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/08\/JOHNSON-2016-04-Alone-Together-screening-in-Switzerland.jpg?fit=890%2C289&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-Mv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2738,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/esther-johnson-alone-together-switzerland\/","url_meta":{"origin":3007,"position":0},"title":"Dr Esther Johnson’s film ‘Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches’ screening in Switzerland","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"18\/04\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr Esther Johnson's AHRC-funded project, Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches, will screen at\u00a0Urbanisation in the British Isles: a historical and interdisciplinary perspective\u00a0at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland later in April. 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