Building Communities Through Technology1 January 2024What agency is afforded to queer people when imagining future technological development? How can we develop creative practices that bring queerness to the forefront of re-inventing approaches to technology?
Prosthetic Futures1 January 2024How will reconstructive prosthetics adapt to future environments? How can creative methodologies and interdisciplinary co-design help answer this question?
Archives as Inclusive Spaces1 January 2024How do neurodivergent archive users use and experience archives? How do we make archives more accessible for neurodivergent users?
Using Processional Arts to Explore Irish Diasporic Memory1 January 2024What does it mean to be an Irish Bristolian today? What is the history and heritage of the Irish in Bristol? How can processional arts be used to understand unwritten pasts and speculative futures?
Telling and Re-telling Tales: Caribbean Folklore and the Art of Storytelling1 January 2024How can researchers explore Caribbean storytelling and folklore as a social act of human self-possession, a means of sharing experiences, and a mode of affirming values? How have these storytellings been captured in archives and how are they told today?
Page Against the Machine: Poetry and AI1 January 2024How can we explore the ethical considerations of using AI to create art? Could AI provide a crucial tool for poets with access needs to write and create?
How do we ethically decolonise a rock and mineral collection?1 January 2023What research can be done into the practice of how to ethically decolonise rock and mineral collections? And how can we bring curatorial practice, poetry, academic thinking and art into the development of decolonising processes?
The Wounds We Keep: Youth, Trauma And Otherness In The 21st Century1 January 2023If non-professional actors can bring realism and authenticity because they have had similar lived experiences to those of their fictional characters, what is at stake when asking non-professional actors to work with such experiences, especially when they might be traumatic? How can such processes be carried out in an ethical, collaborative, and safeguarded way?
Artistry & Emergencies1 January 2023How can creative techniques and artistry be employed to think about how a space can invite people to step forward and act in an emergency?
Memory work and Migration: Exploring the body as a living archive of intergenerational memories1 January 2023How does a perspective on the body as a living archive of intergenerational memories inform approaches to migration and memory? How can an embodied and creative approach to ‘memory work’ help uncover, archive, and work through such memories? And how can this type of ‘memory work’ help migrants themselves redefine a sense of identity to live a better life?
Telling and Re-telling Tales: Caribbean Folklore and the Art of Storytelling1 January 2023What can be learned from the way that Caribbean people tell stories and how this practice has evolved? How might we preserve these stories for wider audiences? And what is the most effective way to re-tell these stories in alternative formats for digital, potentially younger, audiences?
Good Grief Short Film Festival1 January 2022How 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?
Educating the Temporal Imagination1 January 2022How 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?
Motherhood in a Climate Crisis1 January 2022What 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?
