A Wellcome Trust Funded Research Development Award exploring technology and the spaces of health.
The LivingBodiesObjects Research Assistants – each affiliated with a different partner organisation as part of the project – have been busy! Three have published reflective accounts of their time on the project with leading medical humanities blog, The Polyphony, while another has led the development of a new digital exhibition. Dr Yaxin Luo, Research Assistant … Read more
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.
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: 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
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
With our first residential partner, Interplay Theatre, the UK’s National Sensory Theatre, LBO has developed a performance that explores the relationships between bodies, technologies and audiences. This interactive, improvisational theatre piece engages with ideas about robots and the human body inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Klara and the Sun. It imagines how technology might enable … Read more