Brigstow brings researchers from different disciplines together with a range of partners across the city and beyond to experiment in new ways of living and being.
This project was a collaboration of creative tech innovators in the South West led by Simple Things and working with one of the most boundary-pushing artists in electronic music Aisha Devi and their visual artist …
“Our garden in St Pauls is not only the patches of land that we are symbolically reclaiming from years of neglect as rubbish dumps and drug needle debris. It is the individuals and communities who daily engage in a fight …
The expectations of citizens ‘in an emergency’ are changing. Both at home in the UK and internationally, there is a growing realisation that the actions of normal everyday citizens in the first few moments of a health-related emergency are key.…
From tree-based climate solutions, green infrastructure or plant-based diets, to ecosystem services and biotechnological innovations, more hope than ever is being invested in plants to help address environmental, social and economic crises. At the same time, profound advances in plant …
Vertical farming is the practice of growing plants, indoors, under controlled conditions in stacked layers, often without solar light. Hydroponics is a subcategory of vertical farming, where the roots are submerged in water containing nutrients for growth. Benefits of such …
The aim of this project was to explore the therapeutic potential of creativity, demonstrating the different ways that art and the imagination can enable the bereaved to express and process their loss. The project grew …
Children’s connection with nature is considered important for improving wellbeing and encouraging pro-environmental behaviours at a time of planetary crisis. However, the impact of directives to ‘stay at home’ during the COVID-19 pandemic have raised concerns over children’s health, development, …
This project began with the Ideas Exchange ‘Living Well Through the Menopause’ which developed into the Experimental Partnership ‘The MenoMakers’ Handling Box’. In this project, the researchers wanted women to have a space for their voices to be heard and …