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Research and writing about healthy food often focus on bad choices and bad experiences. Health researchers consider what is wrong with what we eat, and why peoples make bad choices. But bad food is often delicious and desirable and being …
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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. …
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What did the project involve?
This project involved a collaboration between a historian, and English scholar, and a community arts charity supporting people with learning disabilities to explore questions of capacity and consent through the story of Fanny Fust, a …
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What did the project involve?
This multidisciplinary research project followed two individual farm chickens through the final phase of their life, to slaughter and eventually to the plate. Both chickens were living on commercial farms, one on an organic farm …
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Dhek Bhal, a community-based charity, has been working with the ageing South Asian population in Bristol experiencing social isolation and vulnerability. This project sought to build on their unique legacy of culturally responsive services to collaboratively explore the use of …
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What did the project involve?
The researchers were interested in working together to develop and design a digital storytelling platform on the effects of the war on drugs in Latin America.
Building on the lessons from the Quipu Project (an …
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While working together on another project at Pervasive Media Studio, Peter Bennett and James Wheale made a surprising discovery: that they could create an app that was controlled by making a wine glass sing.
This quickly developed into controlling the …
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For many medieval folk, the church was the centre of their lives. As a core institution, it sought to appeal to its congregations through a multisensory experience of music, text, movement, and visual objects like wall paintings. However, the question
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Founded in 2011, the British paraorchestra – which at the time of this project had recently gained a home at in Bristol – became internationally known in 2012 when it performed as part of the Olympics closing ceremony. In 2013/14 …
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.