Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Greenwich
Title and brief description
The Watertower
Type
M - Exhibition
Venue(s)
Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, UK
Year of first exhibition
2010
Number of additional authors
3
Additional information
Sporton was commissioned by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, in 2010 to create a work for the decommissioning of Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham (£5k). It was initiated as part of a change management programme for staff and the public. The resulting work ‘The Watertower’, was an installation at the Hospital that combined a computer games engine and a HUD with oral histories from staff and patients to tell the story of the old Hospital and look forward to the future. This work was the subject of a chapter in the book ‘Museums at Play’ (Sporton & Makiola, 2011).
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
1 - Digital Art and Design (Film and Media)
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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