Miss Behavin'
How can we use the playfulness that food affords, to experiment with misbehaviour and ‘bad’ food? What is the impact of cooking workshops on the skills, aspirations, and confidence of participants?
Projects
Tactile interfaces for Older People
Can soft, interactive textile controls in home furnishing or as a wearable help the elderly access useful technology? Does the added sensory experience of textured textiles, with simple controls, help an elderly person remember how to use them? Does the sensory experience help build an emotional bond with the object?
An Empathetic Realisation of Embodied Grief in Fiction Film
How do you create sensitive and authentic cinematic representations of grief? Will multiple voices offer a balanced, holistic perspective or will it universalise and generalise the grieving process in an unhelpful way?
Experiments in Collective Care
What kinds of collective care practices can nourish and replenish us emotionally and politically?
Afro-Asian Networks Visualised
How can a database of information of events and movements that brought together Asians and Africans across national borders in the 1950s and 1960s be represented in an innovative visual way?
Unlocking the creative learning city
How can co-produced participatory art practice, storytelling and ethnographic method benefit older populations from South Asian backgrounds, enhance their wellbeing and in what ways?
Building Instruments: Community Soundscapes for Urban Exploration and Sonic Architecture
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?
Going Global
Can university students' awareness and understanding of global citizenship be promoted through intercultural encounters with students from other universities?
Find your Village: feasibility work on refugee resilience narratives with Bristol Somali Community
What are Bristol Somali refugees’ experiences of journeys from adversity to resilience, from isolation to connectedness, and from constraining to facilitating environments? How might video narratives contribute to understanding and action to improve the opportunities for pre-school children in refugee families?
Once Upon a Hill: Follow on funding to support evidence-based policy making
How can previous research and engagement with local communities through participatory methods be implemented in designing policy around community-assets and community-led economic development initiatives?