Unlocking the Creative Learning City is a project from Brigstow Institute by social scientists Magda Buchczyk and Keri Facer ‘promoting the health and social well-being of local South Asian people (Dhek Bhal) to ask how a range of approaches, including participatory art practice and storytelling, can support the social wellbeing and […]
SGSU director and artist Ellie Shipman was invited to facilitate a series of creative workshops exploring life with older people from Asian backgrounds for Savannah Development Foundation. SDF supports work which benefits Black, Minority and Ethnic communities in Bristol and the charity wanted to find out more about how older people […]
Currently studying an MSc Sustainable Development in Practice, SGSU Director Eleanor Shipman was one of 5 students from the University of the West of England funded to attend the actions happening around the Conference of the Parties – aka COP21 – in Paris in December 2015. ‘Through my Masters I am […]
In July 2015 SGSU Director Ellie Shipman was invited to take part in an week-long creative residency aboard the 14ft yacht the Jacomina as part of composer John Eacott’s project Floodtide Navigate. ‘Floodtide makes music from the movement of tidal water. Floodtide Navigate is currently touring aboard sailing vessel Jacomina around Europe, the […]
We were invited by St. Luke’s Community Centre to run two days of community consultation stalls at the Whitecross Street Party this July. The event was to decipher which of St. Luke’s proposed priorities for their programme should be focused on: helping people into employment, tackling disadvantage and building […]
On Thursday 1st May 2014 something good, something useful officially launched. Huge thanks to those of you who came along to our launch, and everyone who helped make it an incredible evening! We presented our background, team, toolkit, featured projects and portfolio and had a ‘Cakes for Change’ workshop, locally grown and […]
SGSU was invited by sustainable transport charity Sustrans to carry out ‘Experiential Landscape Mapping’ (ELM) around their project ‘Pocket Places Peckham’ – a new initiative in urban design, putting “unused pockets of land to community use”. ELM is a subjective mapping process developed by Dr Kevin Thwaites, focusing on gathering qualitative […]
