New research cluster on culture and creativity
A new research cluster on culture and creativity has been established in collaboration between Oxford and Uppsala. The cluster brings together 10 researchers from both universities to explore and develop cross- and multidisciplinary collaborations – Cecilia Rodéhn, docent in cultural conservation and lecturer at the Center for Gender Research, is one of them.
Photo: Magnus Hjalmarsson
Cecilia Rodéhn's project, Performing Heritage: psychiatric hospitals and the remembrance of mad people, explores how we create cultural heritage linked to people with diagnosed mental illness. The cluster also includes researchers in music, literature, theatre, art, and games. The researchers involved meet both digitally and physically for a two-year period to explore how to work creatively together and with external actors to increase public engagement, but also to create new ways of doing research.
The research cluster is a collaboration between Circus at Uppsala University and TORCH at Oxford University. The hope is that these meetings between researchers with complementary skills will lead to the development of new, innovative projects.
Facts
The Oxford researchers
- Professor Kathryn Eccles, Oxford Internet Institute: The storytelling of digitising 3D objects and AI as a narrator
- Dr Robert Laidlow, Faculty of Music: Innovation in electric music technology
- Professor Matthew Reynolds, Faculty of English: Translation: narrative, play and performance
- Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Faculty of English: Scandinavian literature & theatre and the intersection with climate change
- Professor Wes Williams, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages: Monstrous Anatomies: science and/as performance
Forskare från Uppsala universitet
- Associate Professor Sarah Lynne Bowman, Department of Game Design: Developing skills in personal and social transformation internationally through live action role-playing games
- Associate Professor Lina Eklund, Department of Informatics and Media: Using speculative design to explore alternative human-AI futures in the domain of AI-driven reproductive health technology
- Associate Professor Eva-Charlotta Mebius, Department of Art History: Anglo-Swedish artistic exchanges 1890-1945
- Associate Professor Cecilia Rodéhn, Centre for Gender Research: Performing Heritage: psychiatric hospitals and the remembrance of mad people
- Associate Professor Claes Thorén, Department of Informatics and Media: Creativity and curation in electronic music technology