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 starts from a recognition that human separability from land and other species can be seen as one of the primary causes of our climate, ecological, mental and physical health crisis. The researchers will build upon the idea that …

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 …

‘Spirit of place’ refers to the distinctive value of a particular place and our emotional connections to it. It differs from a ‘Statement of significance,’ which is more related to factual, less changeable reasons why a space is worth protecting …

What did the project involve? 

The project addresses the decline of flying insects globally and it focuses this problem through individual found corpses of bees which are dissected and placed directly onto 16mm film.  The stock is processed in BEEF …

In 2018 (Feb-Oct), this project team was awarded an Immersive Experience ‘development grant’ from the AHRC/EPSRC for ‘A Sense of Place: Exploring Nature and Wellbeing through the Non-Visual Senses. This grant involved ‘crowdsourcing’ responses (with local communities and online) and …

What did the project involve? 

Bristol is known internationally for its thriving film and animation industry and Peru is currently investing in a growing animation sector. By building a collaboration between researchers and animators in Bristol and Peru, the team …