movement – Brigstow Institute

Brigstow integrates academic practices and creative ingenuity fostering research collaborations to unravel the complexities of our time, paving the way for inventive, socially impactful futures.

Motherhood in a Climate Crisis: Story so Far

Posted on 20th February 2023 by hello.brigstow

Since March 2022 when the project team met in person for the first time around Brigstow’s recipients cohort meeting, Motherhood in a Climate Crisis officially moved from the conceptual into the practical. From left to right: Liz Mytton, Celia Turley, Maria Fannin, Sophia Cheng and Jo McAndrews The aim of… Read more

Walking down Ladies Mile

Posted on 27th January 2023 by hello.brigstow

Eleanor Rycroft is a Historian of walking & theatre. She documented a women-led night walk, taking a route that is historically associated with sex-work, connecting the walk, and its participants, to a lineage of night-walking women. Eleanor’s soundwalk is one of the shortlisted pieces in the Sound Walk September Awards… Read more

The creation of a performance about menopause

Posted on 8th March 2022 by hello.brigstow

As part of our Brigstow project, a Tricky Hat Productions and The Flames performance on the theme of menopause was to be put on by Yvonne and the OnFife team. This sounded like a huge challenge, especially during the pandemic and lockdown, but the process itself was amazing. Yvonne and… Read more

Native

Posted on 26th August 2021 by hello.brigstow

Part 1: In a conversation recorded at the plot in summer 2021, Katharine Charsley, Professor of Migration Studies, and Savita Wilmott, CEO The Natural History Consortium , talk migratory and flagship species and demonised categories of humans and nonhumans. Part 2: In a conversation recorded at the plot, in summer… Read more