Sustenance: A Fine Art exhibition as part of the Living Lab
This semester, a group of seven Fine Art students opted to join the Living Lab and make a collaborative response to issues around the food system, together with their lecturer…
Learning Outside the Classroom – and through the Living Lab
The Living Lab gives the core team chances to go visiting other departments and their activities – to give talks about the project, or support teaching. It’s a brilliant chance…
Psychology students in the Living Lab
Psychology lecturer Maria Fernandes-Jesus gives an insight into how her second year ‘Qualitative Research Methods’ students are getting involved in Living Lab: Feeding the Campus. The entire group of 105…
Introducing LIVING LAB: Feeding the Campus
The LIVING LAB is a network of students and staff from different subjects and departments, all collaborating to investigate a real-life, local, social and ecological justice issue, and work together…
Living Lab: Language(s) at the Junction
Linguistics has clearly demonstrated that multilingualism expands what it is possible to imagine and languages provide rich insight into underlying processes that drive patterns of biodiversity (Trisos et al, 2021)…
Living Lab: Festival Success
‘To see that the choices facing us are simple and stark: reduce car use!’ What is the most striking thing you have seen, heard, or experienced today? (Anonymous) Last week,…
Living Lab: Sharing Projects, Sharing Air
‘As an artist, it is making me consider which are the best ways of engaging with the public in order to enable change. As a citizen, I can say that…
Living Lab: Art as a Catalyst for Scientific Discovery
‘I think it’s valuable for students to see that their design work can make a difference or resonate with people’ Clare Nattress, lecturer in Graphic Design, discusses activism in design…
Living Lab: Green Reads
With Green Week rapidly approaching, many of us will be thinking about ways we can make effective and long-lasting changes for the future. Perhaps this means creating eco-businesses, planting wildflowers,…
Living Lab: The Politics of Place
‘Provoke that kind of thinking about how space acts upon us, and how it shapes our behaviour but also reflects it’ Jude Parks, Senior Lecturer in Geography and co-coordinator of…