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Martha King is the Creative Co-Director at Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) Bristol’s Living Lab in Knowle West, UK. KWMC is an arts and community tech organisation with a mission to ‘make fair and thriving neighborhoods together, with arts tech and care’. She is also co-founder and director of Control Shift, an international arts and tech festival, based in Bristol.
She has developed and delivered numerous participatory and critically engaged arts and tech projects and ran community tech co-creation programmes exploring topics such as data ethics, AI and commons-based approaches to citizen sensing.
Martha has a background in theatre and performance making which means collaborative and embodied practices are central to her work. She has a UCL accredited service design qualification and is a currently on the Clore Leading Systemic Change Programme.
She is co-author on HCI published paper ‘A City in Common: A Framework to Foster Technology Innovation from the Bottom up’ and co-author of the chapter ‘We Can Make: Co-Creating Knowledge and Products with Local Communities’ in ‘Co-Creation in Theory and Practice Exploring Creativity in the Global North and South’.