Participatory Arts and Well-being: Past and Present Practices
Principal Investigator: Dr Jane Milling
2011
This project aimed to examine diverse definitions of communal well-being and the complex ways in which participatory arts, past and present, have contributed to and sustained community well-being. We set out to study examples of best practice in content, process, outcome and impact, of historic and contemporary participatory arts activity. Read more
Community gardening, creativity and everyday culture
Principal Investigator: Prof Andrew Church (University of Brighton)
From 2010 to 2011
This project seeks to demonstrate the potential, challenges and capacity of innovative shared creative activities for developing community connections and identities through transformative experiences. It does so in the context of the everyday cultural practice of community farming and gardening. It works with communities that are involved in communal food growing in Sussex, Manchester, and inner London. Read more
Community music: history and current practice, its constructions of ‘community’, digital turns and future soundings
Principal Investigator: Prof George McKay (University of Salford)
2011
The UK has been a pivotal national player within the development of community music practice. In the UK community music developed broadly from the 1960s and had a significant burgeoning period in the 1980s. Community music nationally and internationally has gone on to build a set of practices, a repertoire, an infrastructure of organisations, qualifications and career paths. Read more
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