Awardees
Professor Sarah Atkinson, Professor Mark Mulligan, Professor Zoran Cvetkovic, King’s Digital Lab, King’s Culture, Rebecca Smith (Urban Projections), St Mary le Strand
The GLoW: Illuminating Innovation: Impact Generation & Evidence Gathering initiative saw Professor Sarah Atkinson (Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries) collaborate with artist Urban Projections (Rebecca Smith), Mark Mulligan (Department of Geography), Zoran Cvetkovic (Department of Engineering), King’s Culture and King’s Digital Lab. They worked jointly on a project focused on hosting and examining the impact of a digital art installation held in St Mary le Strand church. The GLoW: Illuminating Innovation exhibition is an important outcome of the larger GLoW3 project… Read More >>
Dr Richard Ashby (Department of English, King’s College London), Deborah Leiser-Moore (La Trobe University)
The Shylock Now: Holocaust Memory, Antisemitism, and Jewish Identity in the 21C project saw Dr Richard Ashby (Department of English) engage in a creative-critical collaboration with Australian-Jewish theatre practitioner, Deborah Leiser-Moore (La Trobe University). Together, they worked on a project focused on using introspective interviews with academics, artists, writers, theatre practitioners, and Holocaust survivors to contribute to contemporary cultural understandings of Holocaust memory, antisemitism, Jewish self-perception, and minoritised identity. Shylock, a central character The Merchant of Venice, is a profoundly ambiguous figure, representative of antisemitic tropes while also arguably sympathetically depicted as a victim of Christian prejudice and white supremacy… Read More >>
Dr Lauren England, Dr Eka Ikpe and Professor Roberta Comunian in partnership with Ituen Basi, Terra Kulture, Tribe XX Lab, and Wy Art Foundation. Videography by Cristina Cabral and Babatunde Kolawole
The Creative Women in Lagos: A Network and Documentary Film Project brought together Dr Lauren England (Culture, Media and Creative Industries), Dr Eka Ikpe (African Leadership Center), and Professor Roberta Comunian (Culture, Media and Creative Industries) to work alongside filmmakers Cristina Cabral and Babatunde Kolawole ‘Director Kay’, in partnership with Ituen Basi, Terra Kulture, Wy Art Foundation and Tribe XX Lab. They collaborated on a project focused on both facilitating knowledge exchange among female creative entrepreneurs in Lagos and raising greater awareness of their accomplishments and experiences… Read More >>
Edward Nesbit (Department of Music), The Choir of King’s College London, Joe Fort (Musical Director of The Choir of King’s College London), South West Essex Choir, Andrew Sackett (Musical Director of South West Essex Choir), Samuel Buttler (Music PhD Candidate)
The “Singing for Wellbeing” project brought together Edward Nesbit (Department of Music), the South West Essex Choir, Andrew Sackett (South West Essex Choir’s musical director), The Choir of King’s College London, Dr Joe Fort (The Choir of King’s College London’s musical director) and Samuel Buttler (Music PhD Candidate) in a creative partnership. The collaboration aimed to explore how choral singing can boost well-being and create a sense of community among participants, connecting people across different generations and backgrounds through the shared experience of music-making… Read More >>
Alana Harris (Department of History), Eight members of Freewheelers Theatre and Disability Company supported by Karl Newman as CEO and Gary Thomas as media tutor, Julian Pooley (Surrey History Centre), Emma Brown (Portrait photographer), Laura Mitchison (Co-Director and Oral Historian, On-the-Record)
The Us and Them project, led by Alana Harris (Department of History), creatively re-imagined 19th-century asylum photographs to highlight issues surrounding disability and challenge how people with disabilities have been portrayed over time. This powerful collaboration brought together eight disabled artists from Freewheelers Theatre and Disability Company to explore how historical images of people with disabilities can be reinterpreted to challenge past and present stigmas… Read More >>
