Past events The Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement (CREATURE)

Ethno-Botanic Resonance

Wednesday 6 March 2024 at 5.30pm-7.00pm

Ethno-Botanic Resonance delved into the profound intersection of ethnobotanical knowledge, cultural well-being practices, and the art of Ikebana.

The Tangible Archive Symposium

Wednesday 07 December 2023, 10.00am

The Tangible Archive Symposium showcased how archives and collections can inspire new ways of understanding the past.

Raffaello in Prison: Reflections on historic artworks and social engagement

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 6pm - 8pm

CREATURE hosted an international event, reflecting on the role of historic artworks as stimuli for social engagement.

Photographs as Replacement in West African Traditional Religion

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 5.30pm - 6.30pm

CREATURE Lab is an on-demand laboratory to pitch and test ideas for further research development.

Musarc: Locating Research

Monday 11 December 2023, 5.30pm - 6.30pm

In this CREATURE Lab, Joseph Kohlmaier discusses the ways in which choral ensemble Musarc’s performance practice and working methodology could be defined as research.

Monumental Cares and Creative Iconoclasm

Wednesday 22 November, 2023 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Reframing existent monuments to creating counter-monuments and performative monuments, public seminar on this subject, featuring Dr Mechtild Widrich’s and Dr Anna Marazuela Kim.

Protea/Extraction: Creating artwork for the Anti-Apartheid Legacy

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 5:30-7pm GMT

Artists Mae Shummo, Lucia Medina Uriarte and Ektoras Arkomanis presented their recently completed artwork Protea / Extraction.

Material Engagement: towards an experience of thinking with material

Wednesday, 7 December 2022 5.30pm

As makers, we have this embodied knowing, but we wanted to know whether we could prompt a dialogue about material with an audience of non-makers.

Creative Practice as Research - from drawing to choreography

Wednesday 23 November 2022 4.30pm - 6pm

This event explores ways in which artistic inquiry can lead to new methodologies of research, through an interdisciplinary lens.

Drawing Symposium: Straying across narrative

Friday 4 November 2022 2pm - 6.15pm GMT

Straying across narrative, instructive, situated, and reflective drawings Chaired by Matthew Barac and Wessie Ling.

Forms of Resistance

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 5:30pm

This session explores acts of resistance through the lens of two powerful case studies.

Material Origins + Regenerative Design

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 5:30pm

George Fereday explores how timber building systems derived from coppiced trees can play a role in reactivating unmanaged woodland and contributing to sustainable, local jobs.

Safety in Numbers

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 5:30pm

Helen Marriage, Emily Turner, Kirsten Jeske Thompson and Anna Kim discuss the role of mass gatherings in reclaiming public spaces in light of the Covid pandemic.

The Launch of "Global China" for Fashion Theory

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 1pm and 5pm

Wessie Ling and Simona Segre-Reinach discuss the launch of "Global China" for Fashion Theory with invited speakers and respondents

Performance Drawing

Wednesday 8 December 2021, 5:30pm

Carali McCall and Claire Zakiewicz explore the connection between performance and drawing.

Performance and Ethics

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 5:30pm

Richard Cumming, Chiara D'Anna and Natalie Katsou respond and 'talk to' John Keefe's presentation on ethics of spectating in relation to the depiction of suffering in performance.

Staging and Re-cycling

Thursday 29 April 2021, 1pm

John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen discuss recently published 'Staging and Re-cycling: Retrieving, Reflecting and Re-framing the Archive' as part of the AAD Books series.

Joint-Launch of CREATURE and CUBE Research Centres

Thursday 25 February 2021, 5:30pm

An AAD Session launching the School of Art, Architecture and Design's two new Research Centres.

The Invention of Narrative

Thursday 26 November 2020, 6.30pm

Ania Dabrowska and Ektoras Arkomanis discuss approaches to incomplete narratives and their allure.

Creativity, Indeterminacy and Representation

Thursday 11 February 2021, 5:30pm

Luke Jones and Trevor Norris puzzle through the ways in which a process or conceit of representation places us in felt and inhabited space.

Clashing Scales

Thursday 5 November 2020, 6.30pm

Two presentations which consider things at different scales: the individual and the global.

Material origins: Seeding research

Wednesday 9 December 2020

Making Matters

Making Matters deals with the practices, processes and theories of the creative arts. The group fosters interdisciplinary exchanges with the purpose of reframing our understanding of the act of “making” and how this may be viewed both as a methodological vehicle and as the outcome of a rigorous research process.

Musarc: Locating Research

In this CREATURE Lab, Joseph Kohlmaier discussed the ways in which choral ensemble Musarc’s performance practice and working methodology could be defined as research.

Photographs as Replacement in West African Traditional Religion

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 5.30pm - 6.30pm

CREATURE Lab is an on-demand laboratory to pitch and test ideas for further research development.

Making Matters 2.0

26 April - 6 May 2023

Making Matters – The Exhibition

Mon - Fri, 5 - 13 May 2022 2pm - 6pm

Tributaries: Reflections on Art and Water

Wednesday 18 October 2023 6:00pm - 8:30pm

The symposium drew together artists, water specialists and researchers to explore how site-specific art and art outdoors respond to water.

Inside Out: Public Art, Nature, and Mental Wellbeing

Wednesday 12 October 2022 6pm - 8.30pm BST

The Inside Out: Roundtable Discussion brought together a range of speakers working at the intersection of public art, nature, and mental well-being.

AAD Sessions: Archive - Material Culture and Participation (Part 2)

Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 5.30 - 7pm GMT

Archive - Material Culture and Participation (Part 1)

Wednesday, 15 February 2023, 5.30 - 7.00 pm GMT

Cultural Commons Seminar Series; June – July 2021

A series of talks and workshops on the topic of Cultural Commons.

Commonhold Law and Commonhold Leases

Wednesday 14 July 2021, 5pm - 6.30pm

Commonhold Law and Commonhold Leases is part of a series of talks and workshops on the topic of Cultural Commons.

Infrastructures, Social Participation and the Commons

Tuesday 20 July 2021, 5pm - 6.30pm

Infrastructures, Social Participation and the Commons is part of a series of talks and workshops on the topic of Cultural Commons.

Economy for Common Good

Tuesday 13 July 2021, 5.00-6.30pm

Economy for Common Good is part of a series of talks and workshops on the topic of Cultural Commons.

Intellectual Property in the Commons

Thursday 17 June 2021, 5pm - 6.30pm

Intellectual Property in the Commons is part of a series of talks and workshops on the topic of Cultural Commons.

Reorienting Cultural Creativity: Collecting and (Re)presenting Global Culture in Museum

Thursday 3 June 2021, from 4pm to 6pm

Run in conjunction with the Interdisciplinary Research Forum (IRF), the Victoria and Albert Museum and Design Museum Dharavi are brought together for a dialogue on collecting and (re)presenting contemporary objects in dress, textile and design under the rubric of decolonising the museum.

Reorienting Cultural Creativity: Economic Femininity and Gender Violence

Thursday 27 May 2021, from 5.30pm to 7pm

Running in conjunction with the Centre for Global Diversities and Inequalities, Economic Femininity and Gender Violence brings together Professor Kate Maclean at Northumbria University and Dr Maria López at London Metropolitan University.

Reorienting Cultural Creativity: The Making of African Fashion Studies

Thursday 20 May 2021, from 1pm to 2pm

Co-hosting with London Metropolitan University’s BAME Network through Black History 365, CREATURE brings together African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI) for a discussion on the development of a decolonial focus for African fashion studies.

Multicultural Art Institutions at the Crossroads: Pressing Challenges

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 5pm

Pressing Challenges: Part 2 of the "Multicultural Art Institutions at the Crossroads" series conceived by CREATURE.

Multicultural Art Institutions at the Crossroads: Institutional Art Archives

Thursday 4 March 2021, 12pm

Institutional Art Archives: Part 1 of the "Multicultural Art Institutions at the Crossroads" series conceived by CREATURE and CFCCA.

Monuments and Democracy – a paradox or fruitful combo?

Thursday 22 April 2021, 1-2pm GMT

Kitchen Table Monumentalism

Thursday 18 March 2021, 1-2pm GMT

Performative Monuments

Thursday 4 March 2021, 5:30-7pm GMT

Festival Cities

Thursday 4 February 2021, 5:30-7pm GMT

Revisiting counter-monuments

Thursday 21 January 2021, 1-2pm GMT