Empowering audiences through street performance
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?
Projects
Writing and well-being for busy people
Why have people written diaries, now and in the past? Can private diary writing help promote well-being? Is it time to ‘reimagine’ the diary for the contemporary era in an era where people publicly share life-stories on social media?
Reimagining the Diary: diary-keeping as a positive tool for teacher wellbeing
How can a new approach to diary writing be used to improve the wellbeing of teachers in the UK? Can effective policy be developed around this to impact government policy on teaching?
The Migrant Institute: Performing (non)belonging and post-Brexit imaginaries
With increasingly polarised narratives of migration – positioning migrants in opposing roles of victims or national security threats – how can we foster better narratives in order to shape better policies?
The Arts, the Sciences and the Seafloor
How can you design a project that incorporates humanities from the outset? Can ‘Blue Humanities’ refining or re-framing scientific research questions?
Difficult Duets
When musicians are creating in dialogue with machines how can humans solve problems pre-emptively? How do we cope in the moment? How do we recover? What new ideas emerge from the irreconcilable?
Resilience Through International Networks: A co-produced pilot project
How can we support young entrepreneurs in Nigeria and Bristol to support new ventures through international collaboration? And how do we develop effective strategies and tools to bring international groups of young people together to collaborate?
Meeting Points
How do connections between the people and place where one lives affect and effect a sense of living well? Can collaboration and creative intervention positively impact upon the wellbeing of a street?
Walking and Re-Creation
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?
Access and Active Leisure in a Time of Pandemic: Tales of Two Cities
How have people experienced access to the cities’ streets, thoroughfares, and green spaces during the pandemic? What’s different between Bristol and Bordeaux? What commonalities are there? And how do people experience different forms of lockdown?