Common Ground is a multi-layered immersive journey into the history, politics and human face of the current crisis in the UK housing system. Through the monolithic concrete blocks of the notorious Aylesbury Estate, the biggest social housing estate in Europe, viewers enter the world of the estate from its birth in the 1960's to its controversial redevelopment today. Showcasing a diverse range of media storytelling tools – stereoscopic 360 video, photogrammetry, 3D modelling, archive and interactivity – this VR documentary questions notions of community, examines the disenfranchisement of the working class, and captures the sense of betrayal that residents feel when they are forced to move on. Common Ground stands as a valuable digital record of place in a time of changing political and social realities.
Writer/Producer/Director: Darren Emerson
Head of Post Production: Conan Roberts
Executive Producer: Ashley Cowan
Lead Developer: Oliver Lindsay
Consulting Producer: Dan Tucker
Resident and Contributor: Jean Bartlett
Resident and Contributor: Judi Bos
Resident and Contributor: Kevin Holland
Resident and Contributor: Anthony Badu
Resident and Contributor: Aysen Dennis
Contributing Historian: John Boughton
360 Camera Operator: Jessica Curran
360 Camera Operator: Andrew Yardley
Production Manager: Alexa Pearson
Sound Designer: Oliver Kadel
Unity Creative Lead: Oliver Kay
Unity Technical Director: Adam Child
Unity Developer: Jason Walters
Animation: Marco Sandeman
3D Modelling: Aaron Hicks
Special Camera Operator: Ben Huss-Smickler
Special Camera Operator: Sununu Hernandez
