No Bounds Festival 2024 – “Entanglement, commons and cultural mycelium”, a Blog by Amy Carter Gordon

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Curator and Innovation Manager, Amy Carter Gordon, Culture and Creativity Research Institute, shares the value of collaborating with No Bounds independent festival in Sheffield in order to engage audiences in practice-based cultural research and innovation in non-traditional venues across the city from neighbourhood social enterprises to an artist studio basement. Entanglement, commons and cultural mycelium For my curated strand of […]

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No Bounds Festival – Hallam’s collaboration set to spark conversation

No Bounds

An exciting, barrier-breaking cultural festival is coming to Sheffield this October – and we’re thrilled to announce that staff and academics from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute have been involved in key exhibitions. What to expect from the festival? If you come to the festival, you’ll have an opportunity to see the city from new and different perspectives and a rare […]

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Dr Kaisu Koski gives talk on vaccine-hesitancy at Finnish Science Forum

Tampere Science Forum

Dr Kaisu Koski, Associate Professor of Art and Design in Lab4Living, will give a talk about vaccine-hesitancy at the Tampere Science Forum in Finland this Saturday morning. The Science Forum (Finnish: Tieteen päivät) is a biennial science festival in Finland and takes place on 22nd and 23rd January 2021. The event opens the Tampere Smart City Week. One of Kaisu’s long-term […]

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‘Noise’ – Rose Butler presents art, material and research at ‘Creative Interruptions’ festival of arts and activism

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Creative Interruptions: A Festival of Arts and Activism Monday 17 – Tuesday 18 June 2019 BFI Southbank Rose Butler will be presenting art, material and research titled Noise on Tuesday 18 June 2019. The work centres on contemporary surveillance and the reinforcement of UK borders following the EU Referendum and in the build up to Brexit. Creative Interruptions: A Festival of […]

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‘Alternate Languages: Confronting Boundaries’ – Professor David Cotterrell’s ‘Mirror III’ and ‘Mirror IV’ installed at Royal Academy of Arts festival

Banner image for Royal Academy's Alternate Language festival featuring David Cotterrell and Ruwanthie de Chickera's Mirror III and Mirror IV

Professor David Cotterrell’s Mirror III: Horizon and Mirror IV: Legacy will be shown as part of the upcoming event Alternate Languages: Confronting Boundaries at the Royal Academy. Alternate Languages is a day-long festival taking place at the Royal Academy on Saturday 16 March 2019 that invites a critique of our relationship with one another and with our spaces. Through immersive spatial activations, artworks, performances, workshops and discussions […]

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September’s Festival of the Mind programme features Fine Art researchers Chloë Brown, Penny McCarthy and Yuen Fong Ling

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This September brings the return of the Sheffield Festival of the Mind, a unique collaboration between our academic colleagues and experts from Sheffield’s cultural and creative industries. Chloë Brown and Yuen Fong Ling are presenting artists’ talks at the Spiegeltent over the next couple of weeks, in collaboration with Making Ways. Penny McCarthy will also be showing a new series of over 100 […]

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‘Creating Dialogues with the Past’ – Professor Daniela Petrelli invited to speak at The Northwest Digital Research Methods Festival on 12 September 2018

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SHU Professor of Interaction Design Daniela Petrelli has been invited to speak at a session entitled Digital Histories and Heritages – Creating Dialogues with the Past at The Northwest Digital Research Methods Festival, on the first day of the two day festival focused on researching the digital and researching digitally. The Northwest Digital Research Methods Festival: Researching the Digital/Researching Digitally South Campus Teaching Hub, […]

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