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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 and opening the pores enabled the evacuation of superfluous humours, with profound physiological effects …
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The world’s oceans are increasingly at the forefront of environmentalist narratives, whether through images of arctic melt, vast garbage gyres, or sprawling oil spills. But they are more than a mere archive of anthropogenic harm. In addition, the seas bear …
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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. …
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What did the project involve?
In a cross-disciplinary project, a team of researchers brought together science, architecture, design, engineering and material development with social arts practice. Together they sought to build a feasible house for humans to live in on …
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What did the project involve?
Much like air quality, the sounds of our cities affect our wellbeing and health. This project explored how noise pollution in the city can be mapped and the effect of noise on people’s wellbeing.
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The Afro-Asian Networks project investigates networks of Asian and African intellectuals, activists, writers, and artists moving within the global context of the early Cold War in the first decades of decolonisation. At the time of this study, this interdisciplinary research …
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Leaders of the past, like those of the present, never act alone. An individual’s networks and what they do with them can help to explain how a person eventually comes to represent others in the public sphere. Mapping Intercultural Connectio…
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.
