A Wellcome Trust Funded Research Development Award exploring technology and the spaces of health.
The residency period of the Thackray Museum of Medicine finished in July 2024, and culminated in the launch of a new six-month exhibition: You Choose. The exhibition explores the role of choice and personalisation in medicine and healthcare, using facial prostheses, such as artificial eyes, pills, and wearable devices. It features both historic materials from … Read more
Between 15-18 July members of the LBO team took part in the ‘Best Practice in Engagement and Culture’ symposium, organised by the Wellcome Trust, which took place in the Watershed Arts Centre in Bristol. The event brought together the eight Wellcome-funded RDA projects to discuss and share the work they had undertaken over the course of the awards.
In this podcast episode hosted by Brandy Schillace, LivingBodiesObjects team members Clare Barker and Lynn Wray and the Bhopal Medical Appeal’s Jared Stoughton introduce their collaborative work to produce new digital resources emerging from the stories of survivors and activists in water-affected areas of Bhopal.
LBO team members Lynn Wray and Clare Barker have been in Brighton recently visiting ‘Everything in Their Eyes: 40 Years of Disaster in Bhopal’, an exhibition curated by our project partners The Bhopal Medical Appeal and featuring work from the LBO project. Staged at the Phoenix Art Space as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival, the exhibition commemorates the 40th anniversary of the 1984 Union Carbide (UC) gas disaster in December this year, tells the story of the Bhopal gas and water disasters through the eyes of survivors and activists, and showcases the BMA’s impactful campaigns over the last thirty years.
Feature image: Sleep Engraver Exhibition, credit Benedict Phillips Touching Sleep is an exploration of technology, art and cultural theory, focused on sleep, which emerged from early conversations during the first months of LivingBodiesObjects. It was inspired by discussions of how the body can be understood as a living object and how it might be recorded … Read more
Feature image: A 1970s SciFi Iron Lung (Image created by MidJourney) The fourth and final residency period of the LBO project began in January 2024. We’ve been working closely with the Thackray Museum of Medicine, based in Leeds, developing ideas for a six-month exhibition which is going to launch in July 2024. The initial phase … Read more
On 9-10 November, the LBO team brought the theatrical piece Kara: An Artificial Friend to Being Human – “the UK’s national festival of the humanities.”
Clare Barker and Amelia DeFalco recently recorded a podcast with Emma Spary, Head of Researcher Development and Culture, as part of the University of Leeds’ Research Culture Uncovered series. The episode is entitled ‘Rethinking Research Spaces: Developing a Medical Humanities Lab and Redefining Research Practices‘. The project introduces us to a non-hierarchical leadership model and … Read more
In this episode, Brandy speaks to Stuart Murray and David Tabron. David works for Blueberry Academy, a business that operates in special educational needs. “We’re a training provider, a post-16 training provider. And we also operate in health and social care,” David explains. Blueberry Academy was set up in 2007 and is localized to York … Read more
Feature image: Jungle Landscape, by Alex McKenna – made using Tilt Brush. In July, LBO finished its second residency, working with Blueberry Academy in York on a project that introduced immersive technologies to two groups of the Academy’s trainees. Blueberry provides training that supports young people to develop education and independence skills and at the … Read more