People
Staff, postgraduate researchers and affiliated members
Knowledge exchange and collaborations across and beyond the University are central to Transforming Creativity research. Members of the group work in collaboration with a range of external academic, practitioner, industry, and policy partners. Activities include jointly organised talks, workshops and events; learning and teaching initiatives with students, and research funding applications and projects.
Current projects and partnerships include:
Digital Suzhou: International Festival of Digital Arts, Culture and Creativity – WSA is the main international education partner of this new arts, culture and creativity festival. Engagement includes co-development of the launch edition of this festival including the curation of the opening talks series and projects. Currently advising on the second edition and developing events, industry partnerships and projects, speakers series and workshops for 2019.
Southampton City Art Gallery – participating in the “Digital Ideas Lab” and collaborating with a range of partners on research and development projects.
Southampton’s Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisations – co-designing and undertaking a research project exploring arts funding in the UK.
Studio 144 – an engagement and evaluation project exploring public experiences, interactions and relationships with the organisations and activities connected with the complex.
Partnerships include:
Digital Suzhou: International Festival of Digital Arts, Culture and Creativity
Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex
Southampton Cultural Trust
TAG (Technoculture, Art, Games): interdisciplinary centre for research / creation in game studies and design, digital culture and interactive art, Concordia University Montreal
The Pervasive Media Studio Bristol
Digital Cultures Research Centre Bristol
DARE: digital arts, research, education, UCL Institute of Education
Southampton City Gallery
Imagine@Lancaster, Lancaster University
Affiliates:
Louise Coysh (Associate Director, Arts and Culture, University of Southampton)
Prof. Nicky Marsh (English, University of Southampton) - intersections between finance and culture
Prof. Jo Sofaer (Archaeology, University of Southampton) - archaeology and contemporary crafts / arts practice
Kate Langham (Bath Spa University) – playful design; design for urban space; inclusive design
Dr Alex Roberts (Southampton Solent University) - Digital co-creation, curation
Tine Bech – interactive / light artist, play scholar
Dr Toby Bennett (Southampton Solent University) – cultural economy, music industry
Dylan Yamada-Rice (Dubit Ltd / Royal College of Art) - digital play and VR for children, visual methods, information experience design
James Branch (Falmouth) – information and interface design; media and technology in urban spaces; media infrastructures; the role of design in research
Staff, postgraduate researchers and affiliated members
Research projects and themes
A selection of recent projects and publications