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Connecting cultures through co-production

In 2020/21 Connecting Cultures GRP launched a funding call for research projects that:

  • had a strong and demonstrable element of co-design and co-production, working in dialogue with local community or public sector groups or representatives around cultural themes and concerns
  • would deliver tangible benefits to these groups: this benefit might be social, economic and/or cultural.

We had an overwhelmingly positive response and were able to support additional projects by working in partnership with Warwick Institute of Engagement.

Discover the projects that were funded...

Re-voicing words: Embodying voices through poetry

Karen Simecek (Philosophy)

This co-produced research brings work on the philosophy of voice to the poetry community through collaboration with the organisation Poet in the City.

Learning Space: Co-producing narratives of health practice and belief in rural Laos

Marco Haenssgen (GSD)

This project supports the conversion of locally co-produced narratives into creative products for cross-cultural dialogue within and beyond Lao PDR.

SAVI (Social Action Video Initiative) 2021

Michelle Aaron (Film & TV)

Co-designed with City of Culture and working with their community partners, SAVI 2021 centres on a smartphone filmmaking project with young people in Coventry.

English, Education and Empowerment Pedagogical Approaches to Supporting Unaccompanied Migrant Young People

Ursula Clayton (ECLS)

Co-designed and co-produced with the Refugee Support Network, this project provides educational support for young refugee and asylum seekers in the West Midlands.

Showcasing Coventry's medieval weaving within Coventry's City of Culture Metropolis exhibition

Alan Chalmers (WMG)

Collaborating with the Medieval Coventry Charity to prepare a virtual reality exhibit showcasing Coventry’s illustrious weaving past, as part of the major exhibition on the history of Coventry's built environment.

Coventry's Windrush Stories

Meleisa Ono-George (History)

In collaboration with an organisation called Septimus Severus, the project will centre the authority of members of the Windrush generation in the telling of their own experiences and histories.

Stitch in time and place

Margaret Low (WMG)

This project aims to connect groups of young people in different parts of the world, to create designs through coding and stitching, to explore aspects of their own cultural heritage.

Modern Mercia: Post-war art and design in Coventry and Warwickshire, 1945-70 exhibition

Louise Campbell (History of Art)

Co-curated exhibition showcasing paintings, sculpture, architectural designs and homeware selected to convey the period of extraordinary creativity in the Midlands after World War Two.

Art-making: Coventry's past, present and future

Jo Trowsdale (Sociology)

This project explores the role art-making has played in Coventry homes during Covid and schooling at home, and the potential opportunities and barriers to residents engaging with publicly funded art-making activities.