How 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.
This research team want to co-create guiding principles for an intervention to improve the physical health of people with severe mental illness (SMI). SMI includes schizophrenia, psychosis and bipolar disorder.
How 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.
This 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?
What social and cultural significance does growing, brewing, and drinking hold for the residents of care homes? What role might activities orientated around growing, brewing and celebrating the cultural heritage of beer play in supporting wellbeing and social connection? How might such activities challenge and disrupt dominant cultural representations of life with dementia in a care home?
How will reconstructive prosthetics adapt to future environments? How can creative methodologies and interdisciplinary co-design help answer this question?
How can health researchers, film researchers, charity organisers, and the south Asian community work together to promote inclusion of marginalised communities in healthcare research by using co-creation methods and visual media?
How do neurodivergent archive users use and experience archives? How do we make archives more accessible for neurodivergent users?
How might historical, ecological and artistic practices inform contemporary night-walking? What does the presence of a feminine nightwalker do to the city, and our notion of cities at night?
How can researchers co-create with with community members and "thought leaders" to explore philosophical questions on thought and consciousness?
How could brewing provide an opportunity for reminiscence and a connection to the natural world, the local community, and therapeutic horticulture in care communities?
How 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 can academic researchers and community partner organisations explore multiple creative methodologies to overcome the barriers to seeking therapeutic intervention for victims of FC/FGM?
How can researchers, community organizations, and local artists/creatives come together to explore the best methods of employing cultural and organisational assets to promote culturally-coordinated understanding and to improve wellbeing, child development, as well as community connectedness and inclusion?
What is possible in relation to living well with our clothing and environment? How can underground (and often marginalised) networks and communities offer knowledge and examples of sustainable washing practices?
If 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?
How can ethical storytelling be used to develop new drug policy, to inform how we can live well with drugs in our communities, and to destigmatise drugs and people who use them?
How can medical professionals and researchers coproduce scenarios with minority communities and draw on the lived experience of health concerns and attending health services through storytelling workshops?
What do accessible, safe, and enjoyable accommodation provision in the homelessness/supported housing sector look like for autistic people? How can artistic visualization and participatory methods help uncover the needs of precariously housed autistic people?
What care futures are envisioned by younger LGBTQ+ people? What can be learned from unorthodox spaces/places where caring relationships are practised by LGBTQ+ people? What are the different relationship care structures, for example within poly families compared to monogamous relationships, and the durability of these over time?
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