Dr Jonny Briggs

SCoRe (Sports Connected Research). Working with FURD (Football Unites Racism Divides), Doctor Chris Stone and Doctor Michael Starkey on the design and positioning of a sports / community related research project.

Degree show design, Way finding and School wide publication contributor and designer. Summer 2015.

Cutting Shapes. Publication Design and Workshops with Young People. Sheffield Design Week. Summer 2015.

[Background] Through his design practice, Jonathan Briggs develops design-led strategies alongside a cluster of clients who all have a shared voice of community-based action against discrimination within football. The focus of his work is around FARE (Football against Racism in Europe, FURD (Football Unites Racism Divides) and SCoRe (A sports Community Research Project). Briggs looks to balance the needs of academic research and on-the-ground active networks. [Research Question ] Can we use design and communication to elevate the status of active networks and research groups to enhance their profile and therefore increase their effectiveness, supporting vulnerable groups around the world?  [Methodology, Context and Dissemination] The methodology involved creating and employing  focused campaigns around international sporting events for FARE. This included joining together an online presence for vulnerable outsiders at the World Cup in Russia by means of a website (Diversity Guide) that used WhatsApp as a secure and safe communication tool for fans visiting Russia. This connected with Diversity House, an on-the-ground exhibition and place of sanctuary for vulnerable fans to watch the games and engage in debates around minority groups supporting football. This coherent approach allowed FARE to have a professional presence when the spotlight was shined upon them. [Significance and impact] During the 2018 World Cup in Russia, I designed and Art Directed and created 2 Diversity House exhibitions hosted in Moscow and St. Petersburg, both of which were supported by an online diversity guide. The impact reached its peak when the Diversity House in St Petersburg was closed by the Russian Authorities. This created a huge spike in activity and FARE were thrust into the global limelight during the duration of the World Cup. On the day of the article, it featured as one of the top 3 most-read stories on the BBC News website. With the success of Russia behind us, FARE have recently (May 2019) delivered ‘Lefoot’ Diversity House in Paris as part of The Women's World Cup 2019 which has been delivered by me and my team.

Tumblrweed prototype Leeds Big screen as part of the 2017 Leeds digital festival

Instagrmamphone Installation subsmission for 4th ICSRiM Student Conference on Music, Multimedia and Electronics at Leeds University 2016

Here or There/Fleeting Moments Solo exhibition, sponsored by Studio Field Exhibiting as part of Sheffield design week 2016. The exhibition offered each visitor the opportunity to produce their own unique editioned piece of artwork, via a simple decision, triggered by a button press. Online documentation of event - https://field-design.com/here-or-there Project website - https://fleeting-moments.co.uk Artwork Gallery - https://field-design.com/hereorthere/

Project Something – Here or There A collaborative exhibition based at Leeds Beckett University Self-authored collaborative exhibition with Ben Hall. Exploring the physical relationship with technology and visual outputs of social API’s (Application Programming Interfaces) April/May 2016

Crash Landing: Design, Website Content & Software. An Engineering Education Resource Published November 2016 Launched in Parliament with the backing of 3 current MPs

Tosh Uni Battles the April Fireman at Sheffield Design Week, Summer 2015. Digital and Screen Print on Somerset Hand with finished edges.

The Gyre is an interactive installation that sets out to raise awareness for our collective, digital consumption and the global, carbon impact that this can have. The project forms part of a long-standing collaboration between Briggs and Hall who have together developed methods for creating immersive digital collage which employ waste fragments from online platforms using code. The Gyre takes the form of a projected installation and a web app that allows users to contribute their own online activity in the form of a personalised visualisation. In addition to the climate change focus, the project explored the use of emerging XR technologies for the purposes of digital storytelling. The SME partner for this project was Field who were able to fulfil the funding call and meet the criteria for the project delivery. The Gyre secured £25,000 funding from XR Stories Climate Challenge and was exhibited as part of Green Screens: Environmental Sustainability and XR Storytelling event at York's Guildhall in January 2023. The project was also selected for inclusion at South by South West (SXSW) in Austin, USA by the Immersive Futures Lab, who represented the UK’s emerging talent in digital storytelling. Sue Edmunds of XR Stories wrote: “The Immersive Futures Lab welcomed more than 500 people and the XR Stories demos were a major attraction, sparking intrigue and conversations with visitors from many different institutions and industries.” (Edmunds, 2023, para.4) The Gyre has featured prominently in marketing from XR Stories and their associated partners across social media and communications. Edmunds, S. (2023) Propelling UK XR at SXSW, XR Stories [ONLINE] Available at: https://xrstories.co.uk/propelling-uk-xr-at-sxsw/ (Accessed: 05 February 2023).

DR Jonathan Briggs, Field and Peter L. Dixon Design Created an immersive experience alongside The Performance Ensemble, a Leeds-based theatre company for the over 60s, providing a community and a voice to those who might feel marginalised. In April 2023, as part of Leeds 2023 Year of Culture, Briggs, Field and Dixon partnered with The Performance Ensemble and Leeds Playhouse to produce 1001 Stories: Radical Acts of Being Human – an immersive exhibition space telling the stories of hundreds of Leeds residents, and a digital archive that will live on long after exhibition.

Dr. Jonathan Briggs & Field, in collaboration with Peter L. Dixon, created a comprehensive exhibition design, incorporating spatial, graphic, and AV elements.