Woven
How might an engaging artwork help women to connect or understand our bodies and hormonal changes on a deeper level?
Projects
Life/Time: Rhythmanalysing Working Life in Time and Motion
Can our wearable devices such as pedometers, heart-rate monitors, and Fitbits be repurposed to challenge the relationship between the user, the quantified-self, and our understanding of the workplace and beyond?
Prehension Blooms: using soft robots to include isolated people in creative spaces
Can soft-bodied robots help us to combat isolation and loneliness?
VR and Dance-Somatic Practices as tools for Embodied Perception and Living Well in our Environment.
How can VR and dance help us to rethink the human perceptual systems and the bias toward vision; the inherent nature of the relationship between perceptual systems and environment for wellbeing; and the ways in which we can re-centre the design for spaces away from visual conspicuity frameworks for sensing, movement and interaction?
Connecting with nature through tangible, digital experiences
With care home residents and hospital patients spending much of their time indoors, how can we help them to re-connect with nature?
Living Well by Playing Well: video game localisation and global distribution.
How can game developers and publishers, localisation service providers, game players, and researchers come together to address the issues faced by video game localisation?
Including the Excluded: Education and Wellbeing in the time of COVID
How are these young people experiencing education now? How has expulsion impacted their mental health, social connectedness, and emotional wellbeing? What are excluded pupils’ educational and wellbeing needs now we’re returning to face-to-face learning?
The Unsettled Planet: Quantifying and Communicating the Instability of Terra Firma
How might bringing together artists, scientists and researchers in the humanities with shared interests, generate insights into a shared language for research and creative practice? How can we better communicate risk levels associated with ground movement?
Seeing the Invisible, Hearing the Inaudible: Revealing estuarine mysteries through art and science
In what ways can analysis of nocturnal human-environment entanglements of the River Erme reveal new insights about the contested futures of our rivers?
Our Neighbourhood Our Stories
How can we explore what are the barriers and facilitators to opportunities for play, social interaction, physical activity and healthy eating for children through neighbourhood walkabout and photovoice?