Remaking society
In this pilot demonstrator project, four community arts and media organisations committed to engagement with autonomous and dynamic communities drew on the creativity of local people. Together they either addressed issues, solved problems or generated alternatives – sometimes all three. Read more
Performing Abergavenny: creating a connected community beyond divisions of class, locality and history
How can we use the arts and humanities to support community cohesion in Abergavenny? This was the question that a group of Abergavenny citizens and the researchers asked. This project was jointly designed, created and produced by researchers and townspeople in partnership with town and county councils and a number of community groups. Read more
Community as micro-sociality and the new localism agenda
The project explored the making of community through small everyday acts of communication and the sharing of affect or feeling. Read more
Producing Historical Abergavenny: The Cultural Value and role of Social Media in promoting Historical Awareness in one Town
This project emerged from the performing Abergavenny Project and was an investigation into the reasons behind the phenomenal success of the Facebook page Forgotten Abergavenny. The project sort to understand the personal experience and cultural value attached to the use of the Facebook page Forgotten Abergavenny. Read more
Utopias, Futures and Temporalities Conference: Images
This two-day interdisciplinary symposium brought together researchers, Civil Society Organisations, NGOs and other groups concerned with questions of social and environmental change, humanitarian challenges, and community empowerment and participation, with philosophers, artists, historians, theorists, social scientists and other disciplines concerned with questions of temporality, futures and utopias. Read more
Utopias, Futures and Temporalities Conference: Abstracts
This two-day interdisciplinary symposium brought together researchers, Civil Society Organisations, NGOs and other groups concerned with questions of social and environmental change, humanitarian challenges, and community empowerment and participation, with philosophers, artists, historians, theorists, social scientists and other disciplines concerned with questions of temporality, futures and utopias. Read more
Heritage Network Symosium Video
The 2nd Connected Communities Heritage Network Symposium was held on 16th January 2015 at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield. Follow the link for videos of all speakers and performances are available through You Tube. Read more
Connected Communities and IROs: A Critical Reflection
This workshop was convened to provide critical reflection on the role of independent research organisations within the Connected Communities programme. This event brought together staff from IROs, project participants and other interested parties to share experiences of working within the programme, to promote more intensive involvement and to exchange ideas on the scheme’s future and legacy. Read more
DEN-City1
Part of the London Festival of Architecture. Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (as part of their Connected Communities Festival), Middlesex University and the research project ‘Hydrocitizenship’. Video produced by Sara Penrhyn Jones & sound by Richard Gott. Huge thanks to photographer and artist Michelle Claire (MIA) for allowing the use of her still photographs. Read more
Doing and evaluating community research
This guide aims to help community partners and academics maximise the benefits of research that is coproduced between communities and academic researchers based in a university. Read more
Project › Valuing Different Perspectives
