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As developing technologies and material capabilities from industry continue to offer us solutions for realising creative ideas. How can they be applied to academic research?

Understanding the challenges that science and innovative research carries within industry, how do we overcome material and design challenges by problem solving creatively. What are the similarities between our works?

‘White coat and purple coat A sleeve from both he sews. [...] White coat and purple coat can each be worn in turn[?]’ Dannie Abse, Song for Pythagoras Dannie Abse qualified as a doctor in 1950, but published his first collection of poetry in 1948.  He continued to combine his medical and writing careers for [...]

“Our bodies eventually become our own autobiographies” I think this is a fascinating idea.  As someone in my family progresses with terminal illness I wonder to what degree this can be true.  Sure, our bodies display the marks of the things that have happened to us – scars from operations, from falling over in the [...]

I am back in a learning situation and it means a lot to me both as an artist and fabricator. I think I know about “stuff” and suddenly I have access to new equipment, processes, materials and research. What does it mean to have that access and expertise, an expert within an expert culture? How [...]

We keep hearing about brilliant projects that are bringing science and art together, happening in Bristol and elsewhere.  We don’t have a great place to publicise them all, but perhaps this would be a thread that people with interesting projects can respond to. And then who knows what collaborations might emerge…

Every cell in your body contains ancient bacterial invaders – the mitochondria It seems strange that we live easily with these foreign bodies encapsulated in every one of our cells.  And that they make energy for us in the form of ATP. The theory that mitochondria have a bacterial origin is called the ‘Endosymbiotic theory’, [...]

Your eyes are almost the same size today as they were when you were born.  It’s just everything else that has changed around them…

Lisa Scantlebury is an artist and fabricator who exploits the creative possibilities of composites. Richard Trask is a composites engineer interested in building the next generation of aeroplanes and rockets.   Both draw on natural structures and materials, but both want to see how much further synthetic materials can go. From March 2011, Lisa is going [...]

Rachel Miller of SCA fame in the University of Bristol Student Union has opened recruitment for volunteers to help with Changing Perspectives, a celebration of research across the University of Bristol. This is a great opportunity to be involved in a high-profile event and to meet people from across the University. Students can get involved [...]