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Social futures are frequently presented as digitally-driven, ‘predicted inevitables’, and draw on a narrow range of experiences and priorities. This framing often excludes the voices of communities at the margins, limiting the opportunities for people to shape their own futures. …
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Many studies conclude that, at an individual level, citizens have privacy and security concerns about sharing data with apps and online services but do it all the same – for reasons of convenience, inertia or an assumption about the existence …
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What did the project involve?
The aims of this project were to forge new relationships among modern pagan practitioners, mental health practitioners, and academics, and to brainstorm about relationships between ‘paganism’ and mental wellbeing. These aims were achieved through the …
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In 2018 an Ideas Exchange between Lucy Kelly and Grace Huxford called ‘Writing and well-being for busy people’ looked at why have people written diaries, now and in the past? Whether private diary writing could help promote well-being? …
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This project builds upon the Brigstow funded An Empathetic Realisation of Embodied Grief in Fiction Film (2019) – which led to the production of the short practice-as-research films Lost Property (Dawson, Hay, Rosling, 2022) and Nothing Echoes Here (Hay, 2022) …
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Practical Help Achieving Self-Empowerment (PHASE) is a group of organisations composed of PHASE Worldwide, PHASE Nepal, and PHASE Austria. PHASE Worldwide (UK Registered Charity) was founded in 2005 to support PHASE Nepal’s (Nepali Non-Governmental Organisation/Community Based Organisation) programmes aimed at …
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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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In 2018 an Ideas Exchange between Lucy Kelly and Grace Huxford called ‘Writing and well-being for busy people’ looked at why have people written diaries, now and in the past? Whether private diary writing could help promote well-being? …
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What did the project involve?
The aim of this project was to explore the therapeutic potential of creativity, demonstrating the different ways that art and the imagination can enable the bereaved to express and process their loss. The project grew …
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.