Thematic tags: Technology

  • What did the project involve? 

    This research team envisaged the creation of a wearable device for pregnant mothers that will interpret their baby’s movements to create patterns of light, colour changes and sound. How could such a device enable a …

  • This research project was inspired by a documentary that Dan Pollard and Annie Moir worked together on prior to this research:

    What did the project involve? 

    Whale song is one of the most iconic sounds of marine wildlife, but noise …

  • 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 …

  • “Art invites us and allows us to linger at the frontier of what there is, and it gives us an outlook on what might be.” Henk Borgdorff, The Production of Knowledge in Artistic Research (2010) 

    Taking Borgdorff’s maxim

  • What did the project involve? 

    The Bone Conducting Lollipop was an innovative confectionary that allows a person who has impaired to normal hearing, to hear music in their head through bone conduction. The project was born out of a project …

  • 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

  • In a world of post-truth news reporting, where even reputable sources have to be questioned, a new perspective is brought to the museum-goer, where interpretation and context are scrutinised more thoroughly.

    What did the project involve? 

    The researchers sought to …

  • The Feminist Archive South (FAS), based in Special Collections at the University of Bristol, holds over 160 metres of material relating to the history of local, national and transnational feminism (1960-2000s). The FAS contains periodicals, books, newsletters, magazines, video, music, …

  • Tactile interfaces for older people brings together a computer scientist and a social scientist  with creative technologists to explore the potential for soft, interactive textiles and art to enable older people to access and manage their immediate environment and memories. …