Multi-Story Water: Celebrating Shipley and its Waterways

This public-facing website documents the development and practical outputs from the Multi-Story Water project, led by Stephen Scott-Bottoms in Shipley and the wider Aire Valley, West Yorkshire. The original one-year phase of this project (2012-13) took place during the previous REF cycle, although the formal report (available online and in hard copy) appeared in 2014. A second, longer phase (2014-17) took place as part of the AHRC's 'Towards Hydro-Citizenship' project (PI Owain Jones, Bath Spa), for which this case study area was one of four nationally (Bottoms was a Co-I and case study leader). The website can be navigated using the menu bar, which features an 'About' page for orientation, and presents drop-down listings with documentation of Performances, Films, and other collaborative outputs. There is also an ongoing blog with entries dating back to 2012, all tagged to particular themes, totalling well over 100,000 words in all. (Some blog posts simply draw attention to particular events, others are more detailed and critical in orientation. It is not proposed that this website would stand alone as a REF item, however it is a primary source of documentation that would be key to a portfolio submission detailing the full range of work undertaken by this practice-oriented project.