About us

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Welcome to the 2021 Creative Futures and Radical Futures Symposium: Collaborative Research in Arts and Science 

Organisers: Aristea Fotopoulou, Mark Devenney, Lena Warming, Lucy Cooke.


AFIn 2021 the focus of Creative Futures is to enhance collaborative research in arts and science, by developing initial hubs of activity in various research areas, such as engineering, medicine, biology, maths, computing, chemistry, and environmental sciences. Aiming to nurture applied collaborations and new fields of practice and theory within the University of Brighton, Creative Futures encourages new interdisciplinary research that uses an arts/science interface. Working with the University’s principles for Practical wisdom, Creative Futures supports research initiatives that tackle pressing cultural, social and environmental issues of our times.

Dr Aristea Fotopoulou, Academic Lead Creative Futures

 

Centre for Arts and Wellbeing (CAW)

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The Centre for Arts and Wellbeing at the University of Brighton develops research and enterprise initiatives that directly benefit the wellbeing of individuals and communities, innovating in a wide range of practices where the arts improve people’s lives.

The university has a long and illustrious history in art and design practices, medicine and healthcare, and was a pioneer in community engagement and co-productive research. The Centre for Arts and Wellbeing brings these strengths together, fostering novel, vital, creative and collaborative modes and methods through which a range of health and wellbeing issues are investigated and brought to public benefit.

Research in this area makes a vital contribution to contemporary cultural life for communities well beyond the university, while refining the academic understanding of how and why the development of arts and wellbeing interweave.