The project intends to co-create, with artists and theatre practitioners, an interdisciplinary hands-on workshop and symposium on ‘Puppetry and an Ethics of Relation’, to allow creative practice and academic research around the ethics of relation in puppetry and robotics, in a range of radical interdisciplinary contexts, to feed mutually into one another, and to establish the framework for future co-created projects around object theatre, robotics and co-presence. (read more)

What perceptions do robots have of humans? What does it mean for us to live in a world increasingly inhabited by artificial and augmented intelligence? This project aims to further develop a network that crosses artistic, scientific and engineering disciplines to explore how machines see us. (read more)

The storytellers with learning disabilities worked in collaboration with historians to uncover this fascinating hidden history. In order to get a feel for what life was like for Fanny, OpenStoryTellers, working with the Bristol academics, investigated all aspects of 18th century life, including the fashion, the food, the leisure pursuits, architecture and schooling, visiting places including the Pump Rooms and the Fashion Museum in Bath. (read more)

In linking academics in Law to members of the Disabled community, this project was able to establish Bristol Disability Human Rights Network. (read more)

The project sought to produce a collections of works that focus on approaches to Frobisher’s multi-scalar and multi-vocal legacy. (read more)