This inaugural lecture presents insights and case studies from a career-long preoccupation with the relationship between writing and place, beginning with early colonial America, and arriving most recently at a Manchester hospital community in the 75th anniversary year of the NHS.
Harnessing the properties of spider silk has been a longstanding aim because the material is as strong as steel, yet also highly elastic. However, the idea of using silk to make bulletproof vests is not a new idea. Instead, it goes back centuries.
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Benjamin Wild, Senior Lecturer in Fashion Narratives at Manchester Met, writing in The Conversation Published:…
Exploring theatre, dance and performance as a means of effecting social change and promoting more equitable avenues for economic growth
Join us at 4pm on 8th March to celebrate the launch of the new book Art, Labour Text and Radical Care by Dr Adam Walker, published by Routledge.
Through developing an ethical-methodological approach of ‘radical care', Art, Labour Text and Radical Care explores how critical artistic practice might contribute to the materialisation of more equal, more collectively fulfilling, possibilities of being.