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A PRACTICE AS RESEARCH PROJECT INVESTIGATING INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS BETWEEEN ACADEMICS, ARTISTS AND ACTIVISTS TOWARDS PROJECTS ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

As a plastic, immaterial medium, the use of light on stage is challenging: how to experiment, test, develop and communicate lighting intentions in advance of the performance? How, in other words, to model light? And for lighting practitioners, how to acquire, hone and reinvent techniques and a desig...

Artists Emily Underwood-Lee, Brian Lobel and Emily Speed worked with parents at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and GOSH Arts to consider the importance of finding space for yourself when you’re a parent or a carer of a child in hospital. Brian and Emily Underwood-Lee staged performances at the...

In London in the mid nineteen-thirties Fred Bentham invented a theatre lighting control system that was in several key respects a radical departure from the controls of the time. In a pre-digital age, the Light Console made use of cinema organ technology to create a lighting control that for the fir...

Cuddington park was formed during London’s inter-war suburban expansion. Built commercially but promoted utopian ideals, these suburbs offered a new middle class of commuters the opportunity to live in a ‘natural’ environment of tree-lined roads, private gardens and public parks. Built on farmland, ...