Jacob expanded his research and practice in facilitation and collaborative devising within the public programme, alongside developing new methods of site responsive enquiries while at Open School East. He formed two new works, ‘The Human Forecast’ and ‘The Riparian Owner’ that used writing and audio as a basis to explore speculative futures and glocalisation on streets and waterways in Thanet. This was significantly influenced from taking part in ‘The Incomer’s Project’ led by Sally O’Reilly, which culminated in a night of audio interventions at Cliftonville Lido. He also played a part in the collective formation of workshops and thematic groups within the public programme, such as ‘Based on a True Story, Afloat’ and the William Morris Gallery takeover day. This ran alongside one-off experiments like ‘Tidal Shorts’, a workshop that played with a tension of control and spontaneity in shooting in-camera edited films, as part of ‘Anti-University Now Festival’.

For the ‘Spelunking’ series he worked with the singer Jodie Watson to create a workshop that fused imaginary organ journeys, Qigong and the vocal chords as a way of finding new subterranean relationships and voices. For ‘Spelunking’ at Turner Contemporary he hosted the artificial caves that the public crawled through with earplugs, blindfolds and Go Pro’s as a cavernous portal to anywhere. Throughout the last term at Open School East Jacob assisted to facilitate the Despacito Art School workshops with young people from Athelstan Road and paddled along drainage ditch corridors.