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.
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 …
During the First World War, a culture of experimental performance emerged in London, challenging mainstream theatre and sympathising with the dissenting politics of the peace movement.
What did the project involve?
The project team examined a group of ‘little theatres’ …
In the UK, 850,000 people are living with dementia, and 38% of the population know someone with the condition. As people live longer and the population grows, living well with dementia is inextricably linked to living well overall.
This project looked to identify the collective care practices which formed an integral part of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) and use them to create a care toolkit relevant to contemporary contexts. Audre Lorde writes ‘self-care is not self-indulgence it …
Around one million GP consultations happen in NHS England every working day, addressing multiple problems. Despite this, studies of what goes on during these encounters are uncommon. The One in a Million archive is a unique dataset of high quality …
The study of seismology reveals the activity of the Earth on all length and time scales: the ground outside our front doors, as well as the ground beneath the farthest reaches of the globe, but also the ground throughout Earth’s …
As the UK population ages, the number of older people at risk of social isolation and loneliness is on the rise, which can have a detrimental impact on physical and mental health outcomes for older adults. Despite this, evidence for …
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 …
“Technologies for blind children, carefully tailored through user-centered design approaches, can make a significant contribution to cognitive development of these children” (Sanchez, 2008)
What did the project involve?
The project’s initial research questions to explore were within the scope of …