Impact South East – AHRC IAA SE Conference, Southampton 2025 - Invited Speaker: Research Impact and the IAA project Stream to Sea

Description

Communicating Coastal Environmental Challenges across the Life Cycle

Using creative arts methods, media and engagement practices this project worked with Fabrica, a local contemporary arts organisation and gallery space to explore connections with elders about their histories, values and memories in relation to the environment and landscape. This project centred around a co-created artist residency project situated in the Living Coast UNESCO Biosphere region in Sussex. Working with varied groups of young people and elders audiences involved explored place-attachment, value and meaning in relation to the Biosphere’s coastal environment. The project fulfilled ambitions for both the research team and the external partner around piloting engagement practices and generating intergenerational connections in relation to a global challenge area. The intergenerational focus played a role in understanding how local communities respond to and understand their local environments past and present to connect with the subject

Period	18 Jun 2025
Event title	Impact South East – AHRC IAA SE Conference, Southampton 2025 - Invited Speaker
Event type	Conference
Location	southamptonShow on map