News in 2021/2022
- Space for Seals: Understanding the relationship between human stakeholders and seals to promote positive wildlife watching practices 1 January 2022 How can space be made for meaningful interaction between the participants on how to optimise human-seal relations?
- Boys at the Crossroads: Insights and Innovations for Doing Masculinity Differently 1 January 2022 How can we form a network of practitioners, artists and academics to talk about boys, men and masculinity? What impact could this have on male based violence?
- Towards creating inclusive performance spaces - introducing haptics in performance art to dismantle ableist barriers 1 January 2022 How can participatory research can help us to further our understanding of how the sensory environment affects inclusive design and societal wellbeing?
- Holding my Heart: Documentary and portraiture to advance the appreciation of 3D medical technologies. 1 January 2022 What role can 3d medical technologies play in exploring one’s identity? What are patients’ perceptions of 3D medical models and the emotional implications that these can carry?
- How does your garden grow? 1 January 2022 How can community creativity centering on communal gardening in St Pauls contribute to unmooring “traditional” Environmentalism from its white supremacist origins and on-going entrapping?
- MEMPAZ – Truth Commission – Memories of Protest 1 January 2022 What are the final steps required to conduct a comparative analysis of the relationship between memory work and political protest in twenty-first century Latin America?
- Microbes, Microplastics and Man Micro-entanglements and the biological complexes of human and more-than-human collisions 1 January 2022 Can we imagine a time when we take responsibility for the health of our water systems? What might an arts practice look like as a result of this speculative dialogue?
- Walking and Re-Creation 1 January 2022 How can we ensure that walking is accessible to all? Can experimenting with different forms of walking change our view of society, health, and history?
- Growing Liveable Worlds: Ethical Encounters Between Human and Plant Life. 1 January 2022 What kind of future ethics will we have for living well with plants? How can technologically mediated encounters with plants be done ethically and sustainably? Will the future of space exploration require us to learn to live well with plants in novel ways?
- Woven 1 January 2022 How might an engaging artwork help women to connect or understand our bodies and hormonal changes on a deeper level?
- Seeing the Invisible, Hearing the Inaudible: Revealing estuarine mysteries through art and science 1 January 2022 In what ways can analysis of nocturnal human-environment entanglements of the River Erme reveal new insights about the contested futures of our rivers?
- Storytelling for Climate Justice 1 January 2022 How can we write narratives of hope in the face of this unfolding disaster? What stories will help prepare us and our children to navigate this crisis?
- Building Instruments: Community Soundscapes for Urban Exploration and Sonic Architecture 1 January 2022 How much do the sounds around you affect your mood? How much do you need to alter a city’s soundscape to benefit its citizens? Much like air quality, the sounds of our cities affect our wellbeing and health. This project explored how noise pollution in the city can be mapped and the effect of noise on people’s wellbeing.
- Reimagining the Diary: Reflective practice as a positive tool for pupil mental health and wellbeing 1 January 2022 How can we build on existing research into the benefits of diary keeping to improve student wellbeing? Can diary keeping improve the mental health of secondary school students?
- The Bristol-led Digital Filmmaking Research Network: 1st Annual Meeting 1 January 2022 How can the BDFRN formally establish the network’s structure, research focus and collaborative principles to be used during the upcoming years?
- Motherhood in a Climate Crisis 1 January 2022 What are women’s concerns and questions when contemplating motherhood in the climate crisis? What methods are effective in facilitating non-judgemental dialogue between women who have made different reproduction choices?
- Library Stories 1 January 2022 How have encounters with ideas hidden in the pages of books and archives stimulated imagination? What connections with others happen amongst the labyrinth of shelves and ideas that change the course of lives?
- What it is to Be There: Exploring Grief, Place and Memory 1 January 2022 How can we open up conversations about death and bereavement, in a manner that destigmatises grief and promotes compassion and understanding?
- All the Others: Creative responses to gender based violence 1 January 2022 How can researchers use interdisciplinary artistic forms as an emotional distancing tool to developed a framework for creating a responsive, ethically-informed project to collect and curate anonymised stories?
- Empowering audiences through street performance 1 January 2022 How can we better understand audiences experiences of temporary monuments? What is the best way to collect and use audience feedback during a live performance?
- Improving quality of life for people living with EB: developing an interdisciplinary network to evaluate requirements and engineering solutions for a second skin technology 1 January 2022 Can the discipline of engineering find ways to improve the quality of life for those affected by Epidermolysis Bullosa?
- A Comparative Study of Gender Construction and its Impact on Healthy Relationships within English and Ghanaian Schools. 1 January 2022 What are young peoples views on the constructions of gender within the school environment? How do these manifest themselves in everyday interactions with teachers and peers?
- Living Financial Resilience: A community research and design project with residents of Lawrence Hill. 1 January 2022 What is lived experience of “financial resilience”? How can we create community-led and – centered services to support them on that journey?
- Good Grief Short Film Festival 1 January 2022 How do you create sensitive and authentic cinematic representations of grief? What can we learn from the process of creating films on grief? What can be learned from the different roles and positions involved?
- Reimagining Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers: Using creative processes to support mathematics teachers in becoming curriculum-makers for climate change 1 January 2022 How do creative processes support mathematics teachers in becoming curriculum-makers in relation to issues of climate justice? In what ways do mathematics teachers reimagine their own classrooms in relation to issues of climate justice? What curriculum materials and resources do mathematics teachers make based on these imaginings?
- What does nature mean to me? 1 January 2022 How can children from diverse backgrounds communicate their connection with nature and biodiversity through art? In what ways are nature-based spaces important for children’s wellbeing? What are the diverse experiences of nature that children across the city experience?
- Sust: co-creating an open-source platform for empowering sustainable fashion consumers 1 January 2022 How can an web browser plug in best support fashion activists to find and share information which will be useful to other consumers as well?
- Improving Access to Oral Health Services for Adult Survivors of Child Sex Abuse (CSA) 1 January 2022 How can coproduction between researchers, dental professionals, and adult child sexual assault survivors lead to new approaches to dental teaching and training which makes healthcare accessible, inclusive, and responsive to all patient needs?
- Interpretation vs. Memory: Creative Approaches to an Autoethnographic Depiction of Grief 1 January 2022 How can we appraise the relative merits of subjective and objective approaches to narrative storytelling when attempting to convey the lived experience of grief empathetically and authentically?
- Educating the Temporal Imagination 1 January 2022 How we think about time - and use time to think with – matters. This ‘temporal imagination’ shapes our understanding of the world, how it might change and influences what we value. What would an educational approach to time look like?
- ‘Designing in’ defibrillators: combining art and urban planning to increase the visibility of public access defibrillators in civic spaces. 1 January 2022 In an emergency, how would you locate a defibrillator? How can we creatively consider ways to ‘signpost’ campus users and members of the public to the locations of live-saving defibrillators?
- AD4Games Follow-up Project 1 January 2022 Are there any further ways that AD can improve game accessibility? What is the best way to make an audio described game available in a different language and culture? And how can we co-produce a game with visually impaired people that is accessible for all? How can we enhance game accessibility training?
- Methods Ideation for Participatory Critical Futures Making in Immersive Shared Spaces 1 January 2022 How can shared immersive environments facilitate the co-creation of fairer and more sustainable futures? How can communities at the margins be actively included using an immersive digital shared space?
