Confluence - Art meets Science

What happens when art and cutting-edge technology meet in our unique environment?

Confluence is a new arts, technology and environment project being delivered by partners Beaford Arts, University of Plymouth's i-DAT (Institute of Digital Arts and Technology), the North Devon Biosphere Foundation and Appledore Arts.

Confluence project homepage

Ecoid location map and live data

Biosphere Arts Strategy

Schools and communities, alongside professional artists will develop new work about places alongside the River Torridge - one of the flowing green arteries that links the inland moors and farmland with the coast. They'll be using environmental data collected live by i-DAT's devices called ECOIDS to create new art work which will also appear in new ways online. More

Participating schools:

• Great Torrington Junior School, Year 5
• Appledore Primary School, Years 5 and 6
• Dolton Church of England Primary School, Years 3,4,5 and 6
• Clinton Primary School (Merton), Years 3,4,5 and 6
• East the Water Primary School, Bideford, Year 5
• Instow Primary School, Years 5 and 6
• Bideford College, Year 11
• Torrington Seconday School, Year 8

Arts and the Biosphere - bringing the environment to life

Award winning poet visits the Biosphere Reserve

Discovering a Sense of Place - schools photographic exhibition inspired by North Devon's famous photographer James Ravillious