Gill Wildman || ...And Then You Pay The Rent || Watershed

This is a talk about the purpose, principles and practice of working with creative people and their money making activities. It includes ideas about how we can work around precarity and making a livelihood. Warning: includes live myth-busting that creative people don’t need money to thrive.

Gill Wildman has worked with creative people and social entrepreneurs, in the UK and around the world. Her grounding is in community development, strategic design and innovation. She has worked with many large tech companies to develop people-centred design and new products and services. She has two modest businesses, Upstarter and Plot and no desire to own a Ferrari.

The Pervasive Media Studio is a partnership between the Watershed, University of the West of England and University of Bristol. The lunchtime talks are partly supported by MyWorld, a project led by the University of Bristol to support creative industries in the region. Watershed is supported by Arts Council England.