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 …

What did the project involve? 

This project was about women, by women and for women.

The research team were interested in key developmental stages, teenage, pregnancy and menopause – and how those hormonal shifts are perhaps undervalued and commonly underrated. …

Recent social movements #metoo, #timesup and #everyonesinvited, have catapulted the issue of men’s violence and harmful masculinities into the forefront of public consciousness. In the UK men’s violence is the biggest single health risk facing women and girls while male …

What did the project involve? 

This Ideas Exchange reflected on Artist Louise Jordan’s street performance ‘Pop-Up Pedestal’ to explore how audiences engage with the concept of temporary monuments? After a period of research and preparation as a team, Louise developed …

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 …

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. …

Shortly before the start of this project, the Financial Conduct Authority released its finding that the COVID-19 pandemic has left over a quarter of UK adults with low financial resilience (FCA 2021). The impacts of low financial resilience go beyond …

How does ecological literacy affect the ability of humans to comprehend and interact with current crises? How does access to land affect the uptake of agroecology in the South West? What are the deep-set beliefs and behaviours of farmers and …