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Celebrating Bristol’s role in the emerging new economy
I’m a big fan of Bristol, having lived there on an off for many years and now working with a number of new economy initiatives based there. As I follow the ‘new economy’ space for the Real Economy Lab, based just outside Bristol, I spend quite a lot of time exploring the explosion of new economy initiatives around the world and I would say Bristol is one the UK’s, if not the world’s, hot spots on ‘new economy’ innovation. It’s no doubt why Bristol was voted Green Capital of the EU for 2015.
Black Country Make: Building a digital factory on a 1960s estate
Black Country Make are a group of young adults living on the Heath Town estate in Wolverhampton. With the help of local architect Jeremy Monk-Hawksworth, they are turning the estate into a digital factory, making everything from films to houses. Operating out of disused shops, a closed-down youth club and former underground car park, they are transforming the heritage of the past using the tools of the future.
Here they explain the project in their own words:
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