Archives: Projects

  • Bristol has a long history and connection with a wide range of psychoactive substances. From the transatlantic slave trade of tobacco and rum, the invention of nitrous in the late 18th century, the legal trade and subsequent banning of khat …

  • This project explores the effectiveness of Peasant Popular Feminism in supporting activism and agroecological (the application of ecological principles to agricultural systems and practices) transitions for women peasants in the Peasant Reserve Zone of Valle del Rio Cimitarra, Colombia.

    Peasant …

  • Supporting migrants in processing traumatic memories has been at the forefront of policy priorities since the beginning of the migrant crisis. Discussions tend to develop medicalized and pathologizing approaches to trauma, focusing on first generation migrants’ memories of life-threatening experiences …

  • While using a washing-machine is a highly routinised domestic practice, its environmental implications have extensive detrimental environmental effects. Washing machines require high inputs of energy, water and detergents; leaching chemicals and microplastics into the environment through waste water effluent. At …

  • How do you develop, conjure, and embody a believable yet mythical beast based on several points of reference?

    The team behind Embodying a Mythical Beast: A Study of Becoming Dragon’ were interested in discovering what material constructions and bodily co-ordinations …

  • “One aim of the project was to make visible and tangible the flux between the material specificity of our labouring bodies and the immaterial world of data which represents their concrete abstraction.”¹

    Work is the most highly valued time …

  • What did the project involve? 

    The team of creative artists and researchers behind ‘Who’s in our food?’ sought to visualize the systems and inequalities that determine the food that sustains us as individuals and communities. The project focused on the …

  • This Ideas Exchange was prompted by the drive to share knowledge, inform, challenge, and create an alternative perspective and narrative regarding Bristol and its connection to Transatlantic enslavement and its legacy. The aim was to approach memorialisation, memory, and healing …

  • What did the project involve? 

    This project explored how to work with person-centred approaches for representing experiences of gender based violence (GBV). Against the backdrop of mainstream media and public discourse, which tend to misrepresent GBV by conveying stereotypes of …