Arts and Culture
HaSS Cornwall aims to cultivate and celebrate creative and cultural Life. The arts, culture, and creativity explore and explain the range of lived experiences and subjective understandings which underpin HaSS mission and values. More than this, it recognizes the importance of creativity for wellbeing and a life well lived – both for seeing ourselves reflected back in other spaces, and for enjoyment in the exercise of creativity.
HaSS Cornwall is deeply embedded with the Arts and Culture team through the Arts and Culture Academic Director Sarah Bulmer and Arts and Culture Programme Manager Annie Sheen.
Unhoming Pedagogies
Unhoming Pedagogies is a digital magazine that gathers students' and teachers' stories about transformational, uncertain and vulnerable experiences of contemporary Higher Education. Created in 2020, the website aims to offer a place in which people can give voice to urgent, raw or troubling educational issues, and to open a space for ongoing conversations.
Creative Together
Creative Together is an exciting new knowledge and skills exchange project capitalising on the rich inter-disciplinary environment of the Penryn campus. Two students from each of HaSS Cornwall and the University of Falmouth, have been partnered across the institutions for two forty-hour collaborative internships over June and early July.
By combining and sharing an in-depth understanding of socio-political issues, pursuing the desire to create confidently and collaboratively, and maintaining an openness to interdisciplinary and innovative thinking, we all hope to benefit from learning entirely new and diverse skills and knowledges (from backstitch sewing to microhistorical analytic techniques), which will benefit us in not only an academic environment but in our everyday lives and thought processes as well as enrich those of our thriving multi-disciplinary community here in Cornwall.
"We are delighted to be supporting these projects which bring enrichment to our students and to our creative practice within HaSS Cornwall. The projects support our departmental aims of working, educating and researching in interdisciplinary, innovative ways and it's fantastic that we can work on this initiative with Falmouth University." – Mark Plummer, Department Manager, University of Exeter Department for Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall.
FX Creative Exchange
The Creative Exchange Programme facilitates collaboration between creative researchers on our Cornwall Campuses who share an interest in issues of environment and sustainability. The initiative, hosted by the Environment and Sustainability Institute, brings together researchers from the University of Exeter and Falmouth University.
Arts and Culture Fellows
HaSS Cornwall currently hosts two Arts and Culture Fellows:
- Ella Frears working with Dr Timothy Cooper on: 'Maritime Environmental History: Oral Histories and Creative Conversation', a creative fellowship which sees academics, students, and the wider public come together around thinking about historical ways of thinking about ecology and climate change.
- Daksha Patel working with Prof Clare Saunders on: 'Exploring Environmental Justice', a social movement which aspires to put justice for people, organisms and eco-systems at the heart of solutions to environmental problems. Central to the project, the pair will be creatively exploring 'deep forms of environmental justice'. Deep forms ensure that negative environmental externalities are prevented at source, while also deeply respecting people from all backgrounds, treating people as equal partners, recompensing those damaged by pollution, the need to rebuild communities and to educate.
Diverse Voices: international conversations exploring environmental justice: an Arts and Culture Fellow blog by Daksha Patel.
