I am Your Mirror1 February 2025How can you create an innovative immersive experience which blends neuroscience, immersive technology, and movement, for an inclusive audience? This project seeks to explore the research landscape to give firm foundations for their multimedia installation.
Ok to Play3 January 2025Can resident-led, creative action address barriers to children’s outdoor play and mobility in urban neighbourhood environments? This research aims to co-design hyper-local approaches to transform underused threshold spaces (doorsteps, pocket parks, pavements, residential street space) into playable, social spaces and sites of everyday creativity and connection within an urban community in Bristol.
Page Against the Machine: AI and Poetry (II)3 January 2025How can poetic writing produced by, or with, AI accurately model human voice, narrative and place-based experience? This project develop new methods to ground voice, experience and unique expression in poetic compositions and multimedia works created with AI.
Whispers from the Archive: Chronic Illness, Creative Responses and Community1 January 2025How do people living with chronic kidney disease want to tell their stories; who do they want to share their stories with; how do they want their stories told? This research consults the Welfare State International (WSI) Archive to scope out other ways to democratise health through public art.
ManMade1 October 2024This research will find out if creating purposeful, practical, and fun outdoors activities will help older men to build social connections and combat loneliness and isolation. Can it further encourage connection with settings of health, and care that can benefit their health and wellbeing?
Using Processional Arts to Explore Irish Diasporic Memory1 January 2024What does it mean to be an Irish Bristolian today? What is the history and heritage of the Irish in Bristol? How can processional arts be used to understand unwritten pasts and speculative futures?
Prosthetic Futures1 January 2024How will reconstructive prosthetics adapt to future environments? How can creative methodologies and interdisciplinary co-design help answer this question?
Page Against the Machine: Poetry and AI1 January 2024How can we explore the ethical considerations of using AI to create art? Could AI provide a crucial tool for poets with access needs to write and create?
Archives as Inclusive Spaces1 January 2024How do neurodivergent archive users use and experience archives? How do we make archives more accessible for neurodivergent users?
Telling and Re-telling Tales: Caribbean Folklore and the Art of Storytelling1 January 2024How can researchers explore Caribbean storytelling and folklore as a social act of human self-possession, a means of sharing experiences, and a mode of affirming values? How have these storytellings been captured in archives and how are they told today?
Building Communities Through Technology1 January 2024What agency is afforded to queer people when imagining future technological development? How can we develop creative practices that bring queerness to the forefront of re-inventing approaches to technology?
Telling and Re-telling Tales: Caribbean Folklore and the Art of Storytelling1 January 2023What can be learned from the way that Caribbean people tell stories and how this practice has evolved? How might we preserve these stories for wider audiences? And what is the most effective way to re-tell these stories in alternative formats for digital, potentially younger, audiences?
Artistry & Emergencies1 January 2023How can creative techniques and artistry be employed to think about how a space can invite people to step forward and act in an emergency?
How do we ethically decolonise a rock and mineral collection?1 January 2023What research can be done into the practice of how to ethically decolonise rock and mineral collections? And how can we bring curatorial practice, poetry, academic thinking and art into the development of decolonising processes?
The Wounds We Keep: Youth, Trauma And Otherness In The 21st Century1 January 2023If non-professional actors can bring realism and authenticity because they have had similar lived experiences to those of their fictional characters, what is at stake when asking non-professional actors to work with such experiences, especially when they might be traumatic? How can such processes be carried out in an ethical, collaborative, and safeguarded way?
Memory work and Migration: Exploring the body as a living archive of intergenerational memories1 January 2023How does a perspective on the body as a living archive of intergenerational memories inform approaches to migration and memory? How can an embodied and creative approach to ‘memory work’ help uncover, archive, and work through such memories? And how can this type of ‘memory work’ help migrants themselves redefine a sense of identity to live a better life?
