PLAYING THE ARCHIVE: memory, community and mixed reality play This project is an ambitious programme of research and cultural production, exploring the nature of play by bringing together archives, spaces and technologies of play, along with people who play, both old and young. It runs from September 2017 to August 2019. You can view the dedicated project page here The
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Thanks to Rebecca Wilson for contributing the following post: Rebecca Wilson and DARE member Theo Bryer ran a two-week drama and filmmaking project with young people in Bengaluru in July 2017. The project was supported by the UCL Global Engagement Fund. Our approach to filmmaking requires participants to focus on part of a story, a turning point, an interaction or
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Jane Coles is a lecturer in Education at UCL’s Institute of Education. She has an article in the next issue of Changing English concerning a garden-themed poetry writing project run by a creative writing organisation (The Ministry of Stories) in partnership with a class of 9-10 year olds from a London primary school. She looks at the different ways in
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DARE members John Potter and Andrew Burn have taken part in the E-Media Education Lab (EMEL) project which is in its final dissemination phase (hence the event at the UCL Knowledge Lab, 2nd May 2017). This has been a 5-country project funded by the Erasmus Plus EU scheme, involving six partners, the co-ordinator being Média Animation in Brussels. It began
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Schooling & Culture disrupts a culture of individualism, competition and surveillance by claiming a new collective position within, and outside of, the school context through self-representation and lived experience. This journal is an invitation to strengthen solidarity between teachers, students and cultural practitioners by exploring politicised praxes of secondary school teaching in the face of increasing conservative toxicity. The journal
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Disability and Community: Dis/engagement, Dis/enfranchisement, Dis/parity and Dissent AKA the D4D Project D4D is an AHRC funded (2016-2020) Connected Communities programme research project exploring the evolving ways in which disabled people express, perform, experience and practice ‘community’. STOP PRESS Read interview with Professor Diane Carr on her work in the D4D project on disability and able bodies in games. https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/disability-assessment-and-able-bodies-in-games-and-science-fiction-researcher-diane-carr-on-her-d4d-project-playful-bodies-technology-and-community/ The
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