Since March 2022 when the project team met in person for the first time around Brigstow’s recipients cohort meeting, Motherhood in a Climate Crisis officially moved from the conceptual into the practical.
…Developing a culture of radical care in our theatre and storytelling project, Motherhood in a Climate Crisis
Image credit: Ibolya Feher
Motherhood In A Climate Crisis is an experimental partnership supported by Brigstow, which aimed to explore women’s thoughts, feelings and experiences around mothering in the climate crisis. Knowing that this was a topic which elicited very …
Learning from each other – lessons from the “Living financial resilience” community research and design project
In 2022, we partnered with Boost Community, a collective of advice agencies (debt, benefits, housing and employment advice) at the Wellspring Settlement, and community researchers to explore lived experience of financial resilience and together develop ideas how to better support …
Brigstow presents our 2022/23 Seedcorn Experimental Partnerships
“This is the first cohort I will be supporting in my role as Brigstow Director and am excited to learn more about their plans and see how their research journeys unfold. We have a wonderful selection of eight projects that …
Walking down Ladies Mile
Eleanor Rycroft is a Historian of walking & theatre. She documented a women-led night walk, taking a route that is historically associated with sex-work, connecting the walk, and its participants, to a lineage of night-walking women.
Eleanor’s soundwalk is one …
A View of Mars: HydroPoetics at the Martian House
As she pulled back the blue and green curtain that closed off a small sleeping pod built into the wall, with just enough room for some comfortable pillows and light bedding, we looked up to a screen – which served …
Reflections on Calming Cushion Project: A different perspective
Robotics and Everyday Life: Strategies for improving the sensing performance of personalised therapeutic products for people living with dementia
My experience of co-working in this team has been very positive. It has been an excellent way to form connections within …
Reflections on Calming Cushion Project
Robotics and Everyday Life: Strategies for improving the sensing performance of personalised therapeutic products for people living with dementia
Having the expertise of a broad range of researchers and creative partners has added great value to the project. With each …
Reimagining bad sounds – a creative approach to sound pollution
The acoustics industry has long been focussed on the mitigation of noise to reduce annoyance and stress to hopefully ensure that citizens are in good health. Quiet spaces are needed and appreciated by people. Many hours of research have gone …