There is increasing interest in the practice and theory of puppetry. This was evident before 2020, sparked by key concerns around AI, robotics, and the ethics of relation to human and non-human Others. These concerns then accelerated during the COVID-19 …

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With increasing public attention to how and whether we might trust intelligent robots in future societies, this project offered an intriguing and playful way to flip this question by imagining how robots might regard us…

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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 …

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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.  

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The project sought to acknowledge the entangled networks of Inuit and British material cultures in the city of Bristol. To do this the team addressed the legacy of Martin Frobisher’s attempt to ‘discover’ the Northwest Passage. Frobisher’s three voyages (1576-78) …

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This research sought to empower online consumers in responding individually and collectively to the climate breakdown and other environmental emergencies. The response used to play out …