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Reflections on Calming Cushion Project: A different perspective

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Robotics and Everyday Life: Strategies for improving the sensing performance of personalised therapeutic products for people living with dementia My experience of co-working in this team has been very positive. It has been an excellent way to form connections within and outside of the university that you wouldn’t normally have… Read more

Reimagining bad sounds – a creative approach to sound pollution

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The acoustics industry has long been focussed on the mitigation of noise to reduce annoyance and stress to hopefully ensure that citizens are in good health. Quiet spaces are needed and appreciated by people. Many hours of research have gone into understanding the meaning and importance of tranquillity in urban… Read more

AD4 Games: Working in an Interdisciplinary Team

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The project took an interdisciplinary approach where audio describers, game developers, academics and participants with visual impairments worked collectively to produce and evaluate different styles of AD. Interdisciplinary teams are fundamental to the design of new technologies and their efficacy within real world contexts. While interdisciplinarity should be embraced within… Read more

Collaborating on the Brigstow Metre and Memorisation Project

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Literary research is, by and large, a solitary endeavour. Writing poems, which I also do, tends to be no more sociable.  In both cases,  the most important process of collaboration is a matter of second thoughts that happen when drafts are finished enough to be shared with peers and editors. … Read more

Urban Sound Pollution – Beyond the decibel

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The ‘Building Instruments’ project was created to explore how we might sculpt soundscapes around the public’s perception of acoustic comfort. To do this we put together a team of people from very different and complimenting disciplines: Ainolnam Azizol – Sonic Researcher (Intern) Pete Bennett – Digital Artist and researcher Jameson… Read more

Using arts-based research for temperature, weather and climate.

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In conversation: Dr Alan T Kennedy-Asser, Research Associate, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol. Dr Clifton Evers, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University. https://brigstowinstitute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/files/2022/05/Alan-and-Clifton-Interview-edit.mp3 Clifton: Let’s discuss your Temperature Life Stories project today and the use of arts-based research. For those of you who don’t know,… Read more