Dhek Bhal, a community-based charity, has been working with the ageing South Asian population in Bristol experiencing social isolation and vulnerability. This project sought to build on their unique legacy of culturally responsive services to collaboratively explore the use of …

In a previous project, Tangible Memories: Community in Care, a team of researchers discovered that care home residents experienced a disconnection with the natural world. This was especially true for those with dementia or physical disabilities that prevented them from …

Support for fathers is essential: both for the fathers themselves, as well as children and mothers. Resources for mothers, while not always adequate, are more readily available than those for fathers.

Attempts to engineer support for fathers have often failed, …

What did the project involve? 

The researchers were interested in working together to develop and design a digital storytelling platform on the effects of the war on drugs in Latin America.

Building on the lessons from the Quipu Project (an …

‘Spirit of place’ refers to the distinctive value of a particular place and our emotional connections to it. It differs from a ‘Statement of significance,’ which is more related to factual, less changeable reasons why a space is worth protecting …

While working together on another project at Pervasive Media Studio, Peter Bennett and James Wheale made a surprising discovery: that they could create an app that was controlled by making a wine glass sing.

This quickly developed into controlling the …

What did the project involve? 

Over the course of three months, the team held a workshop, a creative ‘sandpit’, and created an advocacy toolkit for Disabled people to advocate for themselves, their participation in decision-making at the local level.  

 The …

As we move through the city, it is not always clear whether the spaces through which we pass are public or private, but this issue impacts upon the daily lives of citizens. Public space is a rather inchoate concept and …

We’ve all been there: accidentally stepping in dog poo on while on the way to somewhere important is never fun. But for many children, it can present a risk of zoonotic disease, and the roundworm Toxocara can have devastating effects …