For many urbanites, the pandemic revealed how accessible – or inaccessible – many urban spaces can be. But around the world, different responses to the pandemic led to radically different experiences of access to active leisure and the outdoors.

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During the early modern period, to go for a walk was a recreational activity, but it was also to literally re-create oneself. Heating the body up enabled the evacuation of superfluous humours, with profound physiological effects on the Renaissance individual. …

What did the project involve? 

Brigstow Institute Collaborative Fellowships focus on structural inequalities in Bristol and beyond. In the Including the Excluded project, this meant looking at the experiences of pupils who had been excluded from school during the pandemic.…

Play makes us human. We play to have fun, to socialise, to learn, to de-stress, and to exercise. Over the past few decades, video gaming has evolved into a worldwide entertainment phenomenon. However, most video games are not accessible or …

An interdisciplinary approach is required to face the challenge of increasing global access to food substantially and sustainably. Society will need to do this using the same land base with less fossil fuels, water and chemical inputs within a scenario …

The Feminist Archive South (FAS), based in Special Collections at the University of Bristol, holds over 160 metres of material relating to the history of local, national and transnational feminism (1960-2000s). The FAS contains periodicals, books, newsletters, magazines, video, music, …

Tactile interfaces for older people brings together a computer scientist and a social scientist  with creative technologists to explore the potential for soft, interactive textiles and art to enable older people to access and manage their immediate environment and memories. …

What did the project involve? 

This project involved a collaboration between a historian, and English scholar, and a community arts charity supporting people with learning disabilities to explore questions of capacity and consent through the story of Fanny Fust, a …

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 …