Blood Culture: reimag(in)ing life at a cellular scale
How might bringing together artists and scientists with shared interests in experimentation and making/culturing generate insights into creative practice?
Projects
How does your garden grow?
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?
Telling Stories about Learning Difficulties
Who was Fanny Fust and what can her life tell us about the experiences of people with learning difficulties in the 18th century? What conversations might such a history spark about disability and consent in the present day?
How to Open a Print Shop
How can a wooden printing press offer an antidote to an isolated world which has become dominated by screens and by texts composed in haste? How can a common press allow people to connect off-line, encouraging mindful and embodied practices?
Maths Poems
Is it possible to write a maths poem? How can researchers break down poetry's reputation for being inaccessible, and obscure?
The Degradation of Visual and Audio Art and Music
How can VR and 5G come together to showcase the South-West as a prominent future thinking, creative tech hub?
South West Agroecology Network
How does ecological literacy affect the ability of humans to comprehend and interact with current crises? How does access to land affect the uptake of agroecology in the South West? What are the deep-set beliefs and behaviours of farmers and academics preventing our food system from making an agroecological transition? What is the role of collaborative processes in supporting and promoting agroecological systems?
Post-Truth Tour Guide
Is it possible to develop a generic, interactive museum guide, which is transferrable to all museums? What new forms of interactions, engagements and reflections on museums and interpretations might this make possible?
MEMPAZ – Truth Commission – Memories of Protest
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?
Mapping Intercultural Connections and Conversations of the Past
What methods can be used to reveal under-explored stories and create interactive digital maps of the social networks of Chile’s most prominent indigenous political activists in the early 20th century?