I am Your Mirror1 February 2025How can you create an innovative immersive experience which blends neuroscience, immersive technology, and movement, for an inclusive audience? This project seeks to explore the research landscape to give firm foundations for their multimedia installation.
Whispers from the Archive: Chronic Illness, Creative Responses and Community1 January 2025How do people living with chronic kidney disease want to tell their stories; who do they want to share their stories with; how do they want their stories told? This research consults the Welfare State International (WSI) Archive to scope out other ways to democratise health through public art.
ManMade1 October 2024This research will find out if creating purposeful, practical, and fun outdoors activities will help older men to build social connections and combat loneliness and isolation. Can it further encourage connection with settings of health, and care that can benefit their health and wellbeing?
Hoppiness: Brewing with care homes1 January 2024What social and cultural significance does growing, brewing, and drinking hold for the residents of care homes? What role might activities orientated around growing, brewing and celebrating the cultural heritage of beer play in supporting wellbeing and social connection? How might such activities challenge and disrupt dominant cultural representations of life with dementia in a care home?
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?
Nightwalker1 January 2024How might historical, ecological and artistic practices inform contemporary night-walking? What does the presence of a feminine nightwalker do to the city, and our notion of cities at night?
Ideas Exchange for Hoppiness: Brewing in Care Homes1 January 2023How could brewing provide an opportunity for reminiscence and a connection to the natural world, the local community, and therapeutic horticulture in care communities?
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?
‘Find your village’ – collaborative community research to tackle health inequalities funding1 January 2023How can researchers, community organizations, and local artists/creatives come together to explore the best methods of employing cultural and organisational assets to promote culturally-coordinated understanding and to improve wellbeing, child development, as well as community connectedness and inclusion?
Laundry Justice1 January 2023What is possible in relation to living well with our clothing and environment? How can underground (and often marginalised) networks and communities offer knowledge and examples of sustainable washing practices?
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?
Queer Communities of Care1 January 2023What care futures are envisioned by younger LGBTQ+ people? What can be learned from unorthodox spaces/places where caring relationships are practised by LGBTQ+ people? What are the different relationship care structures, for example within poly families compared to monogamous relationships, and the durability of these over time?
