Water Futures: Exploring the sociodigital spaces of rivers and their communities1 January 2024How does a qualitative, embodied approach to understanding/knowing water can be explored alongside the quantitative environmental data? How can we imagine and (re)-story water / rivers? What would a caring policy towards water look like? Is there a new space for policy within this affective domain between bodies and rivers?
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?
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?
Archives as Inclusive Spaces1 January 2024How do neurodivergent archive users use and experience archives? How do we make archives more accessible for neurodivergent users?
Wasting Time: Anthropocene Stories and Practices1 January 2024How have different disciplines and creative practices approached the multiple temporalities of the Anthropocene? What creative techniques can we use to engage students and publics with the challenges of planetary environmental change?
Prosthetic Futures1 January 2024How will reconstructive prosthetics adapt to future environments? How can creative methodologies and interdisciplinary co-design help answer this question?
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?
