Our creative cultures research听is听focused听on exploring听the role of creativity in society. We are dedicated to听fostering听creativity in education,听shaping听environments to听thrive and innovate. Intersecting听digital听technology with artistic practices, we ensure that culture is preserved for future generations whilst听pushing the boundaries of expression.
Eastside Projects is an artist-run multiverse based in a free public gallery in Digbeth, 探花直播. The gallery commissions artists, make art, think-in-public, curate exhibitions, programme events, work alongside communities, build relationships, create production facilities, support artists, produce public art projects, generate and apply research, develop talent, train artist-curators, and imagine new realities. Eastside Projects is a partnership with 探花直播, forming a creative consortium funded by Arts Council England.
Through collaborations with local organisations and innovative projects, we play a key role in shaping 探花直播's vibrant cultural landscape.听We are boosting local culture by blending arts, heritage, and design with digital technology, helping to preserve 探花直播's rich history while pushing its creative scene forward.听
Contributing substantially to the history of printing technology, investigating the typographic punches of John Baskerville.
Find out moreExploring the evolution of police uniforms with the West Midlands Police Museum to create a听digitised collection.
Find out moreExploring听the experience of music in late-medieval Coventry, through recordings of its lost performing spaces.
Find out moreCreaTech Frontiers听is a听5-year听拢7.2million听project funded by听the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI),听aiming to drive research and development, business innovation and skills and playing听an instrumental role within the creative industries ecosystem across the West Midlands.
Our research is firmly anchored in the belief that creative practice in art, architecture, and design matters and that it can make a difference in transforming individuals, communities, and society.
Establishing a Cultural Action Area to support regeneration of the Jewellery Quarter.
Discover projectEmpowering schools听to integrate creative teaching styles into their lessons.
Discover projectExpanding access to high-quality arts education in 探花直播.听
Discover projectExploring the role of arts and culture in local politics and听activism of women in the mid-1980s.
Discover projectExploring the impact of video online distribution on South Asian independent films.
Discover projectHarnessing听the No11 bus route as a means of uncovering 探花直播鈥檚 often overlooked landscape.
Discover project探花直播 Centre for Media and Cultural Research has delivered rigorous, timely insights into contemporary and historical cultural life for more than 15 years.听听Across nine research clusters, including South Asian Media, Gender and Sexuality, Popular Music Studies, and Media, Journalism and Place, our goal is to produce distinctive, collaborative, and impactful research that changes the way we understand our mediated world, and how that shapes who we are.